Apple iPhone in 10 years?
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Posted on 06/25/2017 6:56:33 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
It's 2027, and you're walking down the street, confident you'll arrive at your destination even though you don't know where it is. You may not even remember why your device is telling you to go there.
There's a voice in your ear giving you turn-by-turn directions and, in between, prepping you for this meeting. Oh, right, you're supposed to be interviewing a dog whisperer for your pet-psychiatry business. You arrive at the coffee shop, look around quizzically, and a woman you don’t recognize approaches. A display only you can see highlights her face and prints her name next to it in crisp block lettering, Terminator-style. Afterward, you'll get an automatically generated transcript of everything the two of you said.
As the iPhone this week marks the 10th anniversary of its first sale, it remains one of the most successful consumer products in history. But by the time it celebrates its 20th anniversary, the "phone" concept will be entirely uprooted: That dog-whisperer scenario will be brought to you even if you don’t have an iPhone in your pocket.
Sure, Apple AAPL 0.45% may still sell a glossy rectangle. (At that point, iPhones may also be thin and foldable, or roll up into scrolls like ancient papyri.) But the suite of apps and services that is today centered around the physical iPhone will have migrated to other, more convenient and equally capable devices—a "body area network" of computers, batteries and sensors residing on our wrists, in our ears, on our faces and who knows where else. We'll find ourselves leaving the iPhone behind more and more often.
Trying to predict where technology will be in a decade may be a fool's errand, but how often do we get to tie up so many emerging trends in a neat package? VIDEO
It’s 2027, and you’re walking down the street, confident you’ll arrive at your destination even though you don’t know where it is. You may not even remember why your device is telling you to go there.
There’s a voice in your ear giving you turn-by-turn directions and, in between, prepping you for this meeting. Oh, right, you’re supposed to be interviewing a dog whisperer for your pet-psychiatry business. You arrive at the coffee shop, look around quizzically, and a woman you don’t recognize approaches. A display only you can see highlights her face and prints her name next to it in crisp block lettering, Terminator-style. Afterward, you’ll get an automatically generated transcript of everything the two of you said.
As the iPhone this week marks the 10th anniversary of its first sale, it remains one of the most successful consumer products in history. But by the time it celebrates its 20th anniversary, the “phone” concept will be entirely uprooted: That dog-whisperer scenario will be brought to you even if you don’t have an iPhone in your pocket.
Sure, Apple AAPL 0.45% may still sell a glossy rectangle. (At that point, iPhones may also be thin and foldable, or roll up into scrolls like ancient papyri.) But the suite of apps and services that is today centered around the physical iPhone will have migrated to other, more convenient and equally capable devices—a “body area network” of computers, batteries and sensors residing on our wrists, in our ears, on our faces and who knows where else. We’ll find ourselves leaving the iPhone behind more and more often.
Trying to predict where technology will be in a decade may be a fool’s errand, but how often do we get to tie up so many emerging trends in a neat package? VIDEO How The iPhone Was Born: Inside Stories of Missteps and Triumphs How the iPhone Was Born: On the iPhone’s 10th birthday, former Apple executives Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell and Greg Christie recount the arduous process of turning Steve Jobs’s vision into one of the best-selling products ever made. Photo: AP
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Big Brother is watching.
I love Big Brother.
1984. A handbook for the 21st Century.
Everyone in my industry is completely fused with their smartphone.
iphone or whatever. Doesn’t matter. They are integrated at all levels - my team (My employees, if you will) are tech integration specialists and their use of technology is measured by both myself and our clients.
It’s a perfect, seamless integration of technology feverishly attempting to make their lives better.
They are late for appointments, show up with no or improper notes and at any given moment they can’t seem to give me vital stats of their projects or tasks.
It’s terrible. These devices are hiding the checkmarks that people used to find crucial: Organization, self-discipline and localized leadership. None of those traits have a place in the smartphone or it’s integrated apps.
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Oh, that's so retro!
Why not let my bots teleconference with your bots while I work on my tan this balmy February? (Global warming, ozone hole and all that, doncha know)
No smart phone is really a phone anyway, it’s a hand held computer with a phone app.
Remember, when cheap endless energy and enforced consumption become the drudgery of the times: teach your robots to consume for you!
They actually don’t seem to be very good as phones, either. I’m always seeing folks holding multi-hundred dollar units in front of their faces, yelling into them.
Just a thought about a gleaming perfect future ahead: It’s 2017 and I was promised a flying car.
It’s not showing on your credit card. I paid in cash. But you did not withdraw that much cash, according to your bank statement. I have other sources of cash. This is not showing as per you last tax form ...unless you got it from undeclared income source. WHAT THE HELL? Enough! I’m sick of Google, Facebook, twitter, Whats App. I’m going to an Island where there’s no internet, no cell phones and no one to spy on me. I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport as it expired 5 weeks ago..
They are actually excellent phones but that is only about 1% of what they do.
Hello! Is this Gordon’s pizza?
No sir it’s Google’s pizza.
So it’s a wrong number?
No sir, Google bought it.
OK. Take my order please.
Yes sir, do you want the usual?
The usual? You know me?
According to our caller ID, the last 12 times you ordered pizza with cheese, sausage, and thick crust
OK! That’s it.
May I suggest to you that instead you have ricotta, arugula and dry tomato?
No, I hate vegetables
But your cholesterol is not good
How do you know?
We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years
But I do not want that pizza; I already take medicine.
You have not taken the medicine regularly; 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 tablets at Drugsale Network
I bought more from another drugstore.
It’s not showing on your credit card.
I paid in cash.
But you did not withdraw that much cash, according to your bank statement.
I have other sources of cash.
This is not showing as per you last tax form ...unless you got it from undeclared income source.
WHAT THE HELL? Enough! I’m sick of Google, Facebook, twitter, Whats App. I’m going to an Island where there’s no internet, no cell phones and no one to spy on me.
I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport as it expired 5 weeks ago..
I want my unmetered Nuk-you-leer electric power I was promised in the 50s.
Some people don’t get sarcasm.
I really miss the 20th century. That was a good century (but for a few wars, Depression, and really bad 70s fashion)
Very amusing!
Lol!
Supposedly, driverless cars will be common in 25 years and the cost of insuring human drivers will steadily push them into using them.
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