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.
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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.
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Well, it is 2017 and the signs of the times should provide everyone an impetus to know without a shadow of a doubt their eternal destination . . . .and that trip might be before 2027. Get your house in order everyone . . .Jesus could come back at any time. . no one is guaranteed a next breath on earth. http://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/
What about my flip phone?
Guess I’m not the only one.
I use mine as an answering machine, sometimes I call out.
It will have multiple uses depending on the app:
paper weight
door stop
chair (or table) leveler
hockey puck
Anything but a communication device.
A woman approaches you in a coffee shop and within seconds, facial recognition software gives you her name, facebook posts, financial statement and sexual history.
Who the hell needs a blind date.
No problem, no smartphone now and never felt the need for such. If I were to get one, would never be an Apple product.
To Serve Man ....
I like blind dates.
They believe me when I tell them I have Paul Newman blue eyes and Robert Redford looks.
I’m always struck by how stupid Siri is. I find it useless.
The woman who is my tech contact at a CAD software company is named Siri. She is anything but stupid!
I am being stalked by some weird old lady.
Don’t flatter yourself
Friend of mine lost his iPhone how does he find it...
She is off her estrogen treatment again, stalking her enemies.
My only enemies here are the supporters of the pimping pedophile gangster...
the communication device of the future was featured on Star Trek in the late 60s. A pin or broach on your clothing. Voice activated.
Coming soon. projection app for your computer watch with sense built into frame of watch.
Roll pf test strips wound around frame pf watch. test for STDs, Pregnancy, sugar and so forth. Pick up a date, test.
e-mail NSA
sense=lense
Who knows where else? Maxwell Smart had a phone in his shoe heel, which might be a good place to have it not get lost or stolen. How about as ear-rings? (Get it, "ring-ring".) Or (heaven-forbid) as nose-rings. I think future phones will find a place on our wrists, as thin transparent bracelets with curved displays. Apple will issue ever-thinner Apple Watches until it becomes razor thin as a bracelet. Hopefully with a flashlight beam, even better a high-power laser. No implants, please.
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