What's next?

ipads with holographic touch displays

 

Hmmm... holographic porn. Ok.

 

I'm waiting for the TVC-15

 

I tried on a pair of those movie glasses. It was pretty cool and it was one of the cheaper models. I can only imagine what the high-end ones would be like.

But I don't think anything like that would be a game-changer.

 

Bankruptcy.

 

Before the economic downturn, holograms in school classrooms were in the foreseeable future. Now that no one has money for this shit, it will have to wait.

I also see everything in our house linked. From pads to phones or lights to HVAC to tvs, we will have everything connected into one main information platform.

 

Next? I see poor people getting poorer as they are conned into "needing" ever-more-expensive iPods, iPads, big screen TVs, fancy smartphones and the like. Greatest scam ever.

 

I just wonder at what point we reach the limit of "useful" and can only innovate "gimmicks."

The iPad, for instance ... I have one (issued by my workplace), and I still really can't see the benefit as yet. Yes, it's nice to read e-books, but it's not orders of magnitude better than reading a book (the way that browsing agate, for instance, is orders of magnitude better on a screen than on paper. Sorry, agate guys.)

I'm far, far from being a luddite, but I don't understand how a holographic display will enhance my life or make things easier or be anything other than "cool, check that out."

This, however:

has TONS of possibilities. If this link could also serve as a diagnostic device to tell me when something in my home is about to go wrong or isn't working properly, now WE'RE on to something. Imagine that your air conditioner or pool pump or electrical infrastructure TOLD you it needed a $80 repair before it just stopped working and needed an $1,800 replacement.

 

It's coming. We have the technology now, but you are asking a lot of businesses to play nice with each other for this to work.

Right now, if we could afford it, I could adjust the HVAC, lights and security cameras in a school 25,000 miles away from my computer right after I make this post. Everything is going web based. Everything.

They are making lights now that know when to dim themselves, adjusting to available outside light. I can also adjust the footcandles in a space from thousands of miles away just with a couple of key strokes.

Everything is moving to the internet, and that is why we spend a ridiculous amount of our Homeland Security budget defending the web.

And heat signatures is an ever expanding technology. Last week I showed a couple roofers how to spot leaks in the roofs using a thermal imaging camera.

 

I'm happy with an iPod/walkman device and a book. I don't want to think about what's next. I can't afford it anyway.

 

I'm with you. That's why I see bankruptcy.