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’m waiting to see what happens in the 2040s.
Cell phones have been around for awhile but didn’t really start becoming ubiquitous until the mid-late 90s.
So if the radiation from cell phones is as dangerous as smoking, you should see an explosion of cancer cases around that time.
If your the one unlucky out of 6 that gets cancer from smoking, you’ll typically get it after 50 years of use. 50 years past the 90s is the 2040s.
So it could be that there are a bunch of cases, studies attribute it to cell phones, and then the gov decides to raise the age of cell phone use to 26 (the future 21) and impose a special excise tax on them (there’s already an excise tax on calls).
Unless of course, the radiation is not as dangerous as smoking, in which case it might take longer for problems to appear or not at all, if a required deadly exposure exceeds a typical lifetime.
“at the end of 2011 ... Blackberries ... were already obsolete in the states.”
What? Obsolete? Blasphemy! And this dope had better not try to pry my high-end BlackBerry out of my hands or I’ll push his 2027 Model iPhone down his lying throat.
Blackberries. Num, num, tasty.
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