Part of my job involves hand held Address and Calendar devices, which are now incorporated into music players and cell phones. It's amazing to remember the 1974 6 Million Dollar Man TV show, which portrayed the first "mobile phone" we all saw, as a lunchbox size device attached to the car. My phone is now 4 ounces. I think within 3 years, we'll see credit card phones as light as 1/2 ounce. It defies me to think what phones will look like in 10 years.
In the world of the future:
Potato chip bags will be so un-openable, that families will stock ultra-lazer-matic opening devices that use 6500 watts of directed power to open them.
Grocery bags will be so light they will effortlessly float at 10,000 feet and bring down airplanes (this is from Stephenson's Diamond Age, not my idea). The bags will be so strong soldiers will use them as unpiercable armor.
Computers will be the size of a diamond stud earring, and Apples will be white, AMD's will be Blue, and Starbucks (after they buy Toshiba) will be Emerald.
Keyboards will be obsolete about 2016, replaced by sub vocalizing and/or chording finger motions. No one over the age of 25 will be able to type as fast as a 10 year old.
Monitors will be obsolete about the same time frame, replaced by dynamic contact lenses which superimpose the computer image on your visual field. Around this time, traffic accidents between gamers playing while driving will become common.
And finally, in the world of the future, some enterprising person armed with nothing more than a PC will mash together Bluegrass and Barbie-Techno-Rap to create something completely different.
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In the world of the future:
Potato chip bags will be so un-openable, that families will stock ultra-lazer-matic opening devices that use 6500 watts of directed power to open them.
Grocery bags will be so light they will effortlessly float at 10,000 feet and bring down airplanes (this is from Stephenson's Diamond Age, not my idea). The bags will be so strong soldiers will use them as unpiercable armor.
Computers will be the size of a diamond stud earring, and Apples will be white, AMD's will be Blue, and Starbucks (after they buy Toshiba) will be Emerald.
Keyboards will be obsolete about 2016, replaced by sub vocalizing and/or chording finger motions. No one over the age of 25 will be able to type as fast as a 10 year old.
Monitors will be obsolete about the same time frame, replaced by dynamic contact lenses which superimpose the computer image on your visual field. Around this time, traffic accidents between gamers playing while driving will become common.
And finally, in the world of the future, some enterprising person armed with nothing more than a PC will mash together Bluegrass and Barbie-Techno-Rap to create something completely different.
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