Twenty years ago I couldn't even imagine that I would find smartphones to be somewhat boring.
Twenty years ago, I was finding GameBoy color to be the coolest stuff in the world.
PsOne's Tomb Raider seemed hi-res,
Hi-res didn't even exist,
I thought we were at the peak of gaming.
Apple Pro One wants to make computers spatial, we find telepathy cool.
I would love to code by the sole action of my mind while running in the forest or scuba diving, 10 seconds here and there.
I would love to receive a drawing made in the mind of someone else, to see it appear in front of me and to be able to share it with others around me :
"-Hey, look at what Julia did."
And again, that's exactly what happens already but in a more immediate manner; replace smartphone with mind, screen with environment and you're in that futuristic world.
It feels like this is cool because of novelty, but then wouldn't it be cool to go back to punching code on cards, or writing lines with ed on a terminal ?
A few years ago I went from music production in a DAW to ten synthesizers (70-84 era) with a tape machine : way cooler, never going back.
But do I produce as fast as before ?
Nope
Here is what I think : I want the possibility of writing code with my mind and virtual floating screens only because of _one thing_ (apart from the initial first few days of new=cool).
I want this to work less, or more exactly to be less at work.
But you know how it will be; you will be asked to produce more work. And this will become mandatory to work by the sole power of your mind, with 5 or 6 virtual screens around you.
And that's all, until a new invention seems cool to you.