No post body was provided.
Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
1–10 of 14 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#2brain computer interface
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#3VR.
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#4There's something (multiple things, in fact) about Wordle that seems magical; so to your question, I think that small, free, respectful games that freshen and invigorate the mind and provide for entertaining social conversations will be huge.
In some ways they already are (outside the realm of technology) - but Silicon-valley-flavoured tech enterprise has tended to choose darker paths that eclipse those properties in favour of profitability and power.
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#5Drones carry video cameras today. Tomorrow they'll carry you, me, and everything else.
Car? As if. In 15 years, none of us will own cars. We'll hail an eDrone.
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#6Drones carry video cameras today. Tomorrow they'll carry you, me, and everything else. Car? As if. In 15 years, none of us will own cars. We'll hail an eDrone.
15 years from now, people will still drive the gasoline powered cars they will own (unfortunately).
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#7Agent based modelling already looks like a toy that isn't a toy. I think we'll see more and more of it as time goes on.
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#8QR codes.
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#9There's something (multiple things, in fact) about Wordle that seems magical; so to your question, I think that small, free, respectful games that freshen and invigorate the mind and provide for entertaining social conversations will be huge. In some ways they already are (outside the realm of technology) - but Silicon-valley-flavoured tech enterprise has tended to choose darker paths that eclipse those properties in…
I wouldn't limit this just to games! Many of my favorite and most used tech and websites are labor-of-love or common-good projects like internet archive, sci-hub, libgen, github, and uBlock origin. Notwithstanding the ascendancy of the monetize at all costs mentality, there is a strong lingering undercurrent of "information wants to be free" in the tech community. Long may it prosper!
Re: Ask HN: What are the technologies that look like toys today but will be huge?
#10Drones carry video cameras today. Tomorrow they'll carry you, me, and everything else. Car? As if. In 15 years, none of us will own cars. We'll hail an eDrone.
15 years from now, people will still drive the gasoline powered cars they will own (unfortunately).
„You really must overcome this people nonsense if there's to be any hope!” as an English, upperclass, 19th century dress down.
Or French, si vous voulez comme M. Sartre quand il a dit 'L’enfer, c’est les autres.'