Assuming current rate of progress, a few leaps, and no global regressions/cataclysms.
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420977
Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#2My vision of the future of technology is one where old technology is reused, and recycled. I wouldn't mind using repurposed 50 year old storage devices if they still work. I would love to see interface tech that allows me to use 30 year old salvaged monitors.
From a software perspective, I would imaging that computers would do a lot more to help validate the intentions of human programmers and that computers will do a lot of the programming themselves.
I would like to see almost all tech powered by renewable sources.
Material science - plastic and other horrible materials should be done away with. I actually think we have gone backwards with respect to materials producing virtually indestructible waste material that poisons our water and air.
Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#3Everything is closed source, centralized, designed for obsolescence, required to access basic necessities, always on, always tracking and always advertising, even though you pay 238 Big Brother Coin for it every month.
Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#4• AR glasses displaying a persistent and globally-shared layer of artificial reality superimposed on everything, as in the anime Dennou Coil [0]
• Said glasses gradually decorated with charms, frills and accessories which leads to basically everyone walking around in fashionable masks [1] that also happen to thwart mass surveillance.
• Development of sleep trackers and ergonomic beds culminating in "smartbeds" or "sleep pods" that perform medical checkups, nutrient injection and body repair, to basically rejuvenate a person enough to not need sleep for a few days at a time.
Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#5Everything is closed source, centralized, designed for obsolescence, required to access basic necessities, always on, always tracking and always advertising, even though you pay 238 Big Brother Coin for it every month.
That... or sticks and stones.
Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#6Everything is closed source, centralized, designed for obsolescence, required to access basic necessities, always on, always tracking and always advertising, even though you pay 238 Big Brother Coin for it every month.
That... or sticks and stones.
Oops... I didn't read the assumptions.
Re: Ask HN: What's your vision of everyday tech 50 years from now?
#7Robots everywhere, as in “I, Robot” (the movie).
And so much automation on the software side, so administrative tasks that are done today? Yeah, ALL of those jobs will be gone. Including jobs that create the automation.