If it fails, we mean.

Computers of 2014
 

In 2014, the Home PC will be obsolete. Everyone will have a tablet PC or two. They will be able to watch tv on them, or "downrent" a movie and watch it.

They'll be networked by wireless technology that we have not yet conceived of. We will also carry with us mini tablets that combine the features of a pc, a cell phone, a gps unit, all of our personal credit cards, mac cards, drivers licenses, car insurance. It will be a camera, a voice recorder, an mp9 player. The Internet will be so vast and complete, and the wireless technology so fast that there will no longer be a need for a phone service. People will begin to cancel their home telephones altogether. The call you place to your Sister in Witchita will hop from local wirelss hub to hub to hub until it gets to the right receiver in her hand nanoseconds later. The miles of t1 lines and undersea phone cables will post their first declines in usage. This infrastructure will soon go the way of the typewriter. All of the information in the world will literally be at your fingertips 24-7.

I'd love to think that we'll see a massive change in the way communications infrastructure works with a move towards massively distributed P2P nets for most things and far, far more two-way media as the barriers for publishing drop further and further.

I'd also really, really like to see a fucking mesh standard get off the ground. I want every device I carry to talk to each other and provide services to each other. My phone should be able to tell my ipod to route the call into my earphones, my ipod should be able to buy songs over the net connection on my phone, my pda should be able to get my email of it (at least that bit exists) and my PDA and phone should be able to use my Ipod for storage. All in 1 stuff always without fail bites ass because it makes comprimises on everything.

Oh an I predict we'll be able to get in-glasses HUDs, we've already got them, it's just a matter of input, size and power now. Size wise it's only the controller unit that's a problem.

I'm leaning toward telephone revolution.

I think a videophone will be the next big thing. In ten years, we'll all have a booth in our homes that will allow us to see our caller in real time, allow us to block our images from going out if we don't wish to be seen right then (bad hair day etc) or are using a cordless, this can also allow us to dial into a database and watch a movie chosen from a menu or with a special code. The phone sex industry is shaken to it's foundations as the customers demand to talk to girls like the ones in the ads, and not some ugly lesbian with her hair in curlers, wearing sweats instead of the promised miniskirt, and halter top.

That's MY prediction anyhow.

Brian

I don't see the videophone thing taking off, it doesn't have the convenience of the phone and it brings a host of problems. 3G has not been a wonderful success in most places and I feel this is the reason. The advantage of an audio-only feed is you can still do other things, video requires your full attention. You will however seen more augs of sorts, people tapped into more devices all of the time. Hell I already know guys that work with in-glasses vid screens, audio feed in one ear and mobile bluetooth piece in the other.

In 10 years I will start being a problem to my son...

10 years ago that is.

JOKING! JOKING! IT IS ONLY A JOKE!

SMILIES TO INDICATE JOKE:

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You guys do realize you can walk into Best Buy today and buy a video phone right?

But we won't have an audience.

That's why they sell them in pairs. C'mon toad, buy Mom one!

Ahh, there's nothing like vibranting in your own bed.:joylove:

In 10 years after I'm elected as a congressional representative from the state of California by an overwhelmingly large margin, I'll have one of my aids get on here to laugh at those of you who said I couldn't do it. And 10 years later I'll be planning my bid for the oval office.

In the next ten years I want to. a)move to America; b) Get a gunlicence; c) take extensive firearms training until I can do it in my sleep.

That considered I'm starting to think that maybe Radar is just a really, really dedicated troll after all.