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VR. People living in a place/time/body they physically aren't. When I'm old I'd like to VR to all the places I missed out on visiting because I was working too hard. I won't be alone.
People have been banging on about VR for years, I don't see it ever becoming more than a niche thing.
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As a customer, why would I want to use Bitcoin (instead of, e.g., a credit card) at a movie theater (or at any other type of shop)?
For the of the thrill of not knowing how much actual spending power you have from one day to the next?
The atheist generation will have grown up and begin to look for someone to tell them everything will be okay. It's a good opportunity to start a new religion. Also, some form of artificial companionship.
"AI will not become as big as people want to believe today."
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5 years ago, over 100 million tablets had been sold worldwide and the iPad was entering its 4th generation. Your description is more apt for 10 years ago.
Well, according to Wikipedia, the history of tablets goes back to the 1800s. But I know for a fact that I bought two tablets on December 31st, 2011 that were priced at $2000 (after getting a 2 year internet service contract plus a 20% employee discount to reduce the price, I paid $800 up front) and it was kind of the hot new item at the time. And I know for a fact that proliferation of apps we have now was not the no…
I agree with the previous remarks - the tablet industry was pretty well established 5 years ago and hardly cutting edge tech - 10 years ago is definitely a better comparison at this point, with the crappy tablet devices Microsoft were pushing at much higher price points then.
I think in the next 5 years desktop applications are going to be a thing again. Frameworks like Qt, electron, nw.js and others have made it very easy for developers to create desktop applications.
However we are seeing technologies like WebAssembly and WebGL which are directly addressing the benefits of desktop applications. What would a desktop application offer over browser based app?
Most people are terrible at predicting the future in this way. Some of the most accurate predictions sound like (or are) jokes at the time, like when JK Rowling was writing her first book as basically a "welfare mom." She did a lot of the writing while her baby napped at some eatery owned by friends/relatives. She would make jokes to the effect of "When my book gets famous, it will put your place on the map!" That ba…
VR. People living in a place/time/body they physically aren't. When I'm old I'd like to VR to all the places I missed out on visiting because I was working too hard. I won't be alone.
People have been banging on about VR for years, I don't see it ever becoming more than a niche thing.