Posted on 06/30/2017 2:38:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
This week the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple iPhone was celebrated. A lot has changed in cell phone technology since 2007. By our current standards, cell phones before the iPhone were crude. The Motorola RAZR was the hip phone back then along with the Blackberry for business.
Things changed rapidly after the introduction of the iPhone. I remember visiting Venezuela at the end of 2011 and laughing over the fact that Blackberries were their most popular "advanced" phone since they were already obsolete in the states.
I think I first became aware of how much iPhones and Smart Phones changed the world while watching a documentary about electrical power plants where the engineer explained that he ran the entire power plant via ONLY his iPhone. Of course there were many other advanced apps which pre-iPhone were a mere pipedream.
Okay, so 10 years have gone by and I am asking you to imagine what the most advanced cell phones will be like 10 years from now in 2027. I'll take the first stab at it with a few of my ideas of what cell phones will be like in 2027.
One app that I think the 2027 cell phones will be able to do will be to scan people for disease like Dr. McCoy did on Star Trek. I am picturing cell phones being able to detect such things as cancer, clogged arteries, and even the onset of colds. This should drive medical costs down due to early detection and treatment.
Another area in which I think cell phones can drastically cut costs will be college educations. Rather than shell out outlandish tuitions, students can get their college educations via courses available on their cell phones with interactive instructors. Oh, and the cost of books will go down via textbooks accessed via cellphone that you read like Kindle books.
I also see more personal person to person payments via cell phone. Not just between customers and businesses but from one person to another. Oh, I owe you ten bucks? No problem, I just sent it from my account to yours via my cell phone.
I figure my flip phone should be good for another 10 years.
Automatic couponing. Just scan the bar code of a product you want and if there are coupons available, they will pop up to use at checkout. Even better, the cell phone would tell you there are coupons for that product but a different brand which you can also access via your cell phone for use at checkout.
I predict they will be twice as powerful in the future.
Rotary dial and party lines.........
“ITS IN REVELATIONS PEOPLE!”
Revelation. Just one.
Control your car. Plug it in as a key. Driving habits and dash cam control.
“They will cut out the middleman and report all of your words, locations and activities directly to the authorities and advertisers.”
Don’t they already?
Okay, it isn’t a cell phone but how about fingerprint detectors at all voting stations. All voters must run their finger over the detector. If the detector detects that the person has already voted somewhere else, a voice barks out for the perp to bend over, grab his socks, and wait until the police to arrive to arrest him for vote fraud.
And you ask:
Okay, so what are your ideas of what cell phones will be like in 2027?
I don't know, but I am sure smug jerks like you will still laugh at people outside your bubble who don't have the latest fashionable tech accessory.
“I figure my flip phone should be good for another 10 years.”
And I’m reverting to my OLD, dependable, non-invasive, Google-free, half-smart, BlackBerry next week.
Will we even still be around by then?
It’s coming in the near future. Could never image it before growing up and reading it in the Bible.
Bingo
Well, yeah, ‘ there’s an app for that’.. A bunch of them.
But I think with just the native OSes mostly they go to google and apple first, who first sort through, then relay them to wherever they will make the most profit.
This is almost current tech — just scan the sku barcode on an item with a barcode reader app and the app will take you to the internet and list all stores selling that item. I imagine coupons can be found that way too.
Hey it was a result of SOCIALISM. I never said it was their fault. In fact I crossed the border to Cucuta, Colombia where they did have more up to date phones. The difference was in their economic systems. Maybe you didn't read the part where I wrote VENEZUELA?
If they can’t wipe your ‘but’ after you take an obama, they won’t be worth a pelosi
The key is that they’re not “phones” as most of us understand the term, they’re super portable computers.
Wristwatches with 3D projection like Princess Leia in Star Wars.
Everyone walking around with their arm bent like Roman soldiers staring at the 3D images.
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