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Wired's Wish List For 2013

Posted by timothy on from the any-excuse-for-some-rendering dept.

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.

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  1. Utility Run Internet Access by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. How about.... by tankdilla · · Score: 5, Funny
    A few things i'd like to see by 2013....
    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.

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    -Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow

  3. Hopefully by Kurt+Russell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the end of the combustion engine.
    Sigh..

    1. Re:Hopefully by happyhippy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Knowing the US itll be more like SUV's the size of dump trucks.

  4. self-darkening contacts won't work by trelanexiph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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)

  5. Old and bitter by Vollernurd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?...

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    Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.