Many people, including me, are now used to being always online. With my smartphone powered by Google’s Android operating system, I am used to sending and receiving email and IMs anytime, from anywhere. It is easy to see how this trend will evolve: most routine computing applications will migrate to smartphones, the coverage and bandwidth of wireless networks will go up, and their price will go down. In only a few years, we will be used to being permanently plugged in the global Internet, and of course the user interfaces will improve. For example, as described by the visionary science fiction author Charlie Stross in his novel Halting State, augmented reality technology based on smart glasses will soon permit overcoming the limitations due to the small size of phones. A first generation of suitable smart glasses is already available, but there is something much better on the horizon: instant telepathic communication.
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Posted by
gabe on 09/21 at 06:22 PM
The problem is people forget about living in the present moment and seem to loose all manners when the phone is pressed against there freaking ear or when they are staring at there little screens.
That’s because if you have phone against your ear you can drive 35 miles down the Interstate…forget to take off when the light turns green ....cut people off ...barge in to a quite coffee shop and have a loud overbearing conversation…yea oh and my favorite…....tweeting when driving.
Gain the telepathic communication for what? Cultural Alienation and lack of digital manners.
Posted by
steve wilson on 06/11 at 05:51 AM
Cmon be scientific, video and audio modulation of the nervous system, implant with high gain tansistor. Full duplex comunication with a computer over radio waves to & from the mind. Already done at least 10 years ago. Most likley at this time (2010)artifical intelligence networks emerge that read human beings thoughts.
Hal (aka 2001), now has esp and can read thoughts primitive human operators watch and make comments & attempt to lobotomize & torture those (cyborgs) with the implants.
Researchers still scam grants to reinvent the wheel. Big monkey breakthrough with a cable moving a robot arm what a joke.
Posted by
mark on 10/12 at 06:02 PM
Though interesting and amazing as all these possibilities are as an avid reader of early sci fi shorts etc I tend to err on the side of fear ie the fear these things will be forced upon us in one way or another and those that resist will be delt with as needed by society,,,maybes who knows but unsettling all the same :(
cool but scary !
Posted by
postfuturist on 10/12 at 11:41 PM
Mark,
such happens no matter what. When & where was it ever good?: at Drive-In flicks eating hamburgers in 1955?
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