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Wired's Wish List For 2013
jpt.d writes "Wired has a nice article on what they wish to be for 2013. It is not too far fetched either! My personal favorite is the roll up television screen made of light-emitting-polymer. How about another Apple gadget? Their first item is an iPhone bracelet, including the functionality of a 'PDA, wireless Internet, a mini iPod, and, of course, a phone.' Notice the Apple logo in the picture." I'd settle for ubiquitous unmetered wireless network access.
It really is an article about the future!
you know, that X squared OS by Apple they show on the 2013 wristband is nicknamed Parabola.
BY 2013, we need to have net access (whether wireless or wired) run like a utility rather than a commodity. There is no need to have companies like Sprint trying to make a killing by artifically restricting what really should be a near-limitless resource (bandwidth).
Let the gov't run the backbones.
I too would settle for unlimited wireless internet access everywhere. While we are at it I would settle for a few million and a supermodel wife who is also a contortionist.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
I've never really cared much for apple products, but damn i want that watch...though there may be problems with the scroll/whatever action if the motion detector always responds to quick wrist motions :)
just put a blasted alarm clock in them...
Sheesh.
I hope by 2013 I can own a robot that will get first post on /.
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The problem with all of these combination devices is that no device is going to do everything well. I have a somewhat small wrist and larger watches seem huge. At the same time, I want a large color display for my PDA.
These two things work against each other.
The display on my phone is not important (especially if I can use it as a simple modem for my PDA), but the button size is. I do not want a combination PDA and phone (think Treo and others) since I want a small phone (since I carry that on me at all times) and will take a somewhat larger PDA since I can choose to carry that or not.
So I want a small display phone with non-small buttons.
I want a PDA with a large color display (I currently have at Clie 665c to give an example).
I want a small watch with small buttons (I have a Nike Triax 42)
I want a small camera with a decent display and good optics (I have a Canon S200)
I want a MP3 player with a decent display and small size (I have an iPod)
One thing I really want is a Bluetooth-like personal network. If I pull out my PDA, I want it to sense my cell phone in my pocket and use it to connect to the internet. I want my PDA to recognize my camera and download pictures from that. if I have a laptop with me, I want it to do the same thing.
So available wireless internet is one thing, but I would rather have workable, wireless personal networks (meaning on my body).
Even better would be the ability to have a neetworked storage device somewhere (wallet, etc) that could work as a networked storage device for everything else I am carrying at once. No more carrying a 10gig iPod, a PDA with a 128meg MemoryStick and a camera with a 128meg CompacFlash card. Ideally the iPod would simply be used as storage by all devices without wires.
This would allow easy modularity without trying to pack everything into once device.
[If someone tries to patent this idea in the future, I suppose my idea cannot be used as prior art. I think I have to actually implement the idea, right? Any non-lawyers out there want to comment?]
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I believe Wired is right on the spot when it comes to a screen technology incorporated into a pair of glasses. It's really the only thing that makes sense when you need your hands.
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But it's not just for athletes. Technology like that is already being used in medicine (look up stuff while you operate), and I believe that when you couple it with GPS navigation you could do way cool navigational aids (think drawing arrows on the ground, you just follow).
I've been waiting for this a long time already... why can't it be ready now?
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Pets that eat poop instead of make it (Thus creating a circle of life between real and artificial pets.)
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
Reassurance that 1 term of a Bush in charge and bad economic times can equate to 2 terms of some other guy in charge for 2 terms and good economic times, and an occasional scandal that keeps things interesting.....
Oh yeah, world peace and smell-o-vision.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
10 years ago I was posting messages to BBSs with a 14.4k modem, a 14" monitor and a 7MHz PC.
OK, Internet is a bigger BBS, my modem is 4x faster I've got a 17" monitor and my PC is 50x faster.
In ten years expect things will remain much the same but bigger again. Maybe I'll surf Internet2 at 250k, have a 24" monitor? My PC may even run at 20GHz
Am I the only one who sees a problem with the interface of something like the iPhone. Taking it is going ot go round you wrist the only reasonable interfaces are very small button, or voice recognition. Button would be to small and I don't like the idea of having to stand in the street shouting "Ring Wife".
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Also how do you speak? Do you have to shout at the braclet or will you have to hold it up to your ear and look like a prat? OK it does have an earphone but its still a fun image
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How long are they planning to go between upgrades? Seriously though, most of that stuff seems awesome, others seem useless or overkill. Are athletes going to take their eyes off the finish line or competitors to see what their heart rate is? I do want the wrap around TV though...i'd make my room into Quake 8 by then.
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If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
the end of the combustion engine.
Sigh..
I found a 17" monitor next to a dumpster recently. Really, it was better than most of my old ones. It's amazing the useful things people throw out simply because something "better" has come along.
I also noticed a PC in the dumpster one time but I decided to pass on thatt one.
With a bit of work (And hopefully photos of my new house and this setup upcoming) a wraparound TV isn't all that impossible. Using a wrapping screen and an LCD projector this should be only minimally hard to achive. I'll post pictures when/if I get this working in my new house. I'm thinking of throwing the front speakers BEHIND the wrapping screen so they aren't in the way.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
This sounds cool, but really it's not going to be easy, or desirable. The automatic darkening lenses are nowhere near perfect, and don't notice sunlight but UV light. Ask anyone who wears them in a car, they don't darken because the windows/windshield have a UV coating. Quite frankly in combination with the HUD display, I'd like to see what electronics can be built into sunglasses in the future. obvious note: IANADR (I am not a Doctor, but I work with an optical lab where doctors write perscriptions for these lenses)
When did government ever do anything better, cheaper, quicker than industry? Net access will stay in the private sector because any government can't afford to make it public for a list of reasons starting with 'they can't afford it' and running through to 'they'll fuck it up anyway'.
Net access is a commodity already - pretty soon it will be a utility in the same way petrol stations are. Think petrol stations - not roads. I dont have to sign an exclusive lock in 12 month deal with shell to fill up my tank - and soon enough I wont have to sign up to a long deal for access either - hopefully.
The question is - is 2013 soon!!!
Sitting here in my slippers typing by the light of an oil lamp, I wish for nothing more than:
1) A mobile phone that works properly;
2) Digital TV that works properly;
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
4) Good health;
5) Peace and quiet.
I must be getting old before my time.
Now where's my cocoa?...
Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
Light-emitting polymers aside, I think one much more interesting field of progress is paper-based dynamic displays. I recently watched a feature about this, and it seems that the technology isn't far off.
But why paper? Because, unlike any kind of polymers that we'll know of in the near future, paper is cheap as heck. Paper also provides excellent contrast and is pleasant to read off. Not to mention the ability to draw stuff on top of it with a regular pen.
I would personally not be surprised if paper-based computer displays rule the earth in ten years.
In 10 years Apple (or someone else) might be ready to pioneer the holographic interface to work with this iPhone.
Possible Output Methods
Possible Input Methods
So in closing... everyone complaining about the size of the iPhone being to small to see anything on, is being short sighted.
Rod!
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Shouldn't they be predicting that Apple will be out of business by 2013?
All the time. For example, Medicare/Medicaid is far more efficient than just about any privately run health plan, and government research is highly efficient and has been responsible for most of the real innovations over the last 50 years.
When it comes to big organizations and big projects, the government works very well. The real question is: what big private company has been better, cheaper, or quicker than the government? Enron? IBM? AT&T? Don't make me laugh. Big corporations are command economies but without the transparency and checks-and-balances of governments, and the often do their business free of they kind of competitive pressures that make markets efficient.
I am all for a private sector and free markets in telecommunications. The trouble is that we don't have it. And if the choice is between unregulated inefficient corporate behemoths and public utilities or strongly regulated private utilities, the latter is much preferable and likely to be more efficient.
And I don't actually foresee all those things coming about so fast anyway. Small OLED screens will hopefully be widespread in 10 years, but they'll still be expensive as wall covering. Noise cancelation of non-periodic signals is hard. And the market for mood-ring-contact-lenses seems even smaller than the market for mood rings.
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
I think Moore's law will put you around 1.5THz in 2013.
But your system will still skip and delay because you'll be running Windows 2013.
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Playstation 9!
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By 2013,
1)not to deal with the scourge of spam as we do today. By that time, we will have better email systems. 2)An alarm clock that had a sensor(infra-red) that would check if I am out of my bed and would continue to ring until I got up even after hitting the snooze button.
3)Really cool dual-headed displays for PDA's and other electronic devices. 4)Sale of only flat panel displays to be allowed. CRT displays should be banned.
5)The present ratio of desktop:laptop 70:30 should be reversed. 6)AMD to have 50-60 % of the CPU marketshare
1) A cure for HIV that is cheap enough to be rolled out in Africa. Failing a cure, a vaccine to stop new infection would also halt the pandemic.
2) A method of world governance that rids us of rogue states that persecute their own populations (Saddam, North Korea et al) and also curbs rogue states with semi-democratically elected leaders who want to attack other states on dodgy pretexts (GWB I'm looking at you)
3) An end to the tech slump, sustained growth in IT sectors, more coding jobs for me!
4) Moore's observation to continue to hold true, more better toys getting cheaper.
5) Following on from that, widespread internet rollouts in the third world. The street finds it's own uses for technology, and the villages will find their own uses for information and commication.
6) Open source software to keep getting better, no more constrictive tech monopolies, and end to DVD region coding and hard crypto staying legal.
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StrawberryFrog
I found this article to be horribly unrepresentative of how technology, particularly entertainment/information technology, progresses. Wherever technology goes, pornography is already there, waiting for it. Seriously, there wasn't any mention of technology in that article geared towards the production, distribution, or enjoyment of pornography, nor was there any mention of technology designed to enhance or simulate sexual experiences. Can any serious discussion of future technology exist WITHOUT mention of the pr0n industry? I think not. This article is, therefore, worthless.
Hopefully by 2013 we'll be using a new email protocol with server authentication. Didn't the author of Q-mail suggest such an implementation?
rob
Personally, I think sunglass contacts will NEVER catch on.
Contacts require:
- Prescription fitting (you definately should see an opthamologist before wearing them)
- Careful application
- Rewetting in dry climates
- Cleaning/disposal
Sunglasses will always be cheaper than sunglass-contacts because of those reasons.
I think, the goggles with integrated display will have some future. Imagine this: A HUD-Display, connected through bluetooth to some Laptop (maybe in your backpack) could give you a huge amount of information. GPS-Navigation, E-Mail, Traffic-Warnings. Connect it to a small digicam, run a persons face through a recognition-software.Lookup the result in your databse et voila: Name, Birthdate right in front of you.
...is disturbingly similar to the "Wall Screens" in Farenheit 451. I wonder how long it will be until Microsoft starts offering their "Ultimate TV" with personalization capabilities that are made to work with digitally created talk show hosts, news anchors, etc. that call you by your name, can see you through video cameras, and change the programming depending on what your do or say in the room. It'll be interesting...
Without the defence department's initial backing, the internet would probably not exist in it's current form today.
This contains everything that seems to be wrong with people's concerns about war -- please explain it if I'm misunderstanding. You seem to believe that Iraq is a rogue state, the gov't does slaughter its own population, and that it would be generally a better world should Saddam et. al. be usurped.
But then you say that GDub's pretexts are dodgy? The people against war seem to cry that they are the unheard minority -- but keep in mind they are just that, a minority. Depeding on the poll you look at, 60% - 70% of Americans are in favor of war in Iraq. If they halted war every time there were significant numbers of protestors, Americans would probably all be speaking German right now. Or hell, speaking with British accents.
And I *really* don't understand why it's so many Slashdotter's and other's wish that we follow a One World Order(tm). The prevalent opinion seems to be for smaller government and smaller business, but, what, unless it's the UN or some entity like it? As far as I know, the US as a sovereign nation has the right to follow its own course, even if it's contrary to that of the rest of the world.
Frankly, I'm not saying I'm for a war -- but it's sad to me that those that are against such efforts have yet to construct an cogent argument for their cause that's more than just a personal attack on the US's incumbent Executive.
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"Now that's a wrap."
Nice to see Fozzie Bear has gotten into technology writing.
I'd like a world where more thought is put into the content of an article than the barf-inducing cutesy closers to every squib.
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Believe me, I'm as surprised by my comment as you are.
You're probably right, but let's try to read between the lines:
1. The wrist computer is exactly this: a computer in your wrist. Nowadays, what is the main app for computers? Pr0n, of course. Just imagine the potential. I can't even begin with...
2. The smell tester can be very useful when you need to check the safety of some... um... "service" you want to get.
3. The earplug can be used to screen undesired and unerotic sounds. An invention like this is sure to experience the sex experience, even in the Slashdot demographic. But don't neutralize the sound of your parents when they come home.
4. Nice goggles. Now you can forget those boring classes and no one will see what you're really learning about. Just keep enough interesting info in its display. It can even record your performance, for Scott's sake!
5. Well, you have a point here. I can't imagine a way of making lenses seem more useful. Perhaps by blocking your sight when you're with an ugly woman. This is a bit chauvinistic, isn't it?
6. Look at all those naked women! And they're in natural size! Wow!
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What ever happened to the Refrigerator which monitored supplies and ordered groceries using the internet, and the Microwave that spoke with the Refrigerator and cooked your food for you?