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Personally my dream computer would be one that could interface with my optic nerve directly or be something unobtrusive such as a contact lens. The biggest barrier to contact lens displays is that it isn’t just putting an image on the lens but the ability to focus so if this technology ever gets off the ground it will require something much more advanced like an array of microlasers to directly stimulate the retina actively or have some kind of layer that can generate light in such a way that it is preprocessed to be exactly what the eye would have received had it received the light reflected from a real object. There is a company working on such a technology which Google has invested in.

I think “the cloud” will play an increasing role though we aren’t yet to the point where we can truly take advantage of it. We still have operating systems on are various devices and our profiles and settings aren’t all portable. The perfect cloud experience would be one where the device is only a window for the most part and everything else follows us regardless of what we are using whether it is a smart tv, phone, tablet, notebook, etc.

Wearable tech will be a growing thing but it wont be the Apple Watch that does it. Most people don’t like technology being a chore whether it be a kludgy set of glasses, a watch, or something that requires one speak like a robot or a movie announcer to get something done.

There is a lot of promise in machine brain interfaces and they hold the key to revolutionizing technology because I don’t think we really want to talk to our tech or wave our hands at it. What we really want is it to be an extension of us meaning that we want to think what we want and it just do it. Also even with a lot of VR stuff the ultimate VR would be to have the screen not be something requiring a screen at all but instead be something truly all in our head and that is the ultimate computer and one that would have matrix like potential.