Coming 2032
Posted on 03/01/2015 8:28:02 PM PST by leopardseal
It might actually be that something like this would be possible with today's technology or it may be more like five or ten years out, but this is the computer I'd like to have. The thing would look like two Iphones held together face to face with magnets or snaps of some sort and fit in a shirt pocket. You'd take it out of your pocket, take the two halves of the thing apart, and set the one half on any flat surface to be the mouse. The other half would sit on the same surface and somehow generate a holographic screen and keyboardwhich could be used like any desktop computer.
In other words, a fully functional desktop computer which you could carry in a shirt pocket with nothing else needed to run.
Thoughts anybody??
Excellent!
Excellent!
Haha. Wow. I am very happy we are leaving that stuff in the dust. Win7 is sooo much better, and so is Win 10. I just cant understand people pining for XP.
Coming 2032
Well Samsung had a projector phone not too long ago and some company out there makes a laser projected keyboard, adding a mouse is simple because of blue tooth. All that being said we are far away from mobile devices catching up to x86 in processing power.
I can't run my favorite games on any OS after XP.
Every time I'm forced to "upgrade" I lose something else, and can't name a single thing I've gained.
LOL
Regards-
I can see advertisers, gov't drones, and hackers all salivating at that possibility. Imagine accidentally downloading a virus directly into your brain, or having your body's motor controls seized by the state.
I don't want to live in that future.
I can name two things you have probably gained and it is a lighter wallet and a headache.
Yep..
‘Your’ computer notifies you that you have email, you ran a stop sign and your bank account has been debited for it, you’re due in court to explain that last ammo purchase, and ‘according to our records, your deposits indicate you have not filed a required 1099 so we’re freezing your account...”
That’s my worry about the ‘computer of the future..’
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.
I would personally still prefer a keyboard and mouse.
Google glass is a computer in glasses
I would prefer a virtual interface superimposed over and integrated with the real world.
I have a shop with 100s of thousands of dollars of machinery that run on XP. When windows fanboys laugh at me for not upgrading I ask them to write me a check for all new equipment. They shut up right quick.
What can I do in Win7 that I can’t do in XP?
Where will you go to get rebooted after a BSOD in your brain?
Hmmm a holographic keyboard and machine that you can interact with.... I’ve see that in movies like Iron Man and Minority Report.
Anyhow, guys like Ray Kurzweil is saying our bodies will be linked to the web via nano-technology up to the Cloud (aka Space X).
I know DARPA has completed a heads up display that attaches to the cortex of your mind and is powered by kinetic movement of your spine.
Here is an article about it,
http://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-propose-cortical-modem-implant-to-give-you-terminator-vision/
W10 Linux unifiesd the kernel (about a decade ago).
Intel has posted its roadmap
Intel has nice processors but none with microamps of standby current draw.
google glasses will be your TV
That's nice but I got rid of my TV in 1999 and will never get another one.
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