What do cell phones look like in the year 2144?
Obviously they won’t have a screen anymore. They’ll be pop-up displays. So if you’re sitting on a train and your romantic partner sends you a steamy selfie…guess who has an audience?
Has this annoyed anyone else?
If they’re tactical screens, that makes sense. But I still don’t think transparent displays on personal devices will be a thing in the future.
Holograms are my gripe as well. Three dimensional holograms have at least some use, but those 2D holograms are always worse than just having a regular screen. They’re washed out, sometimes not even full colour just greyscale (or blue, yellow, whatever). You’d need hard light holograms that can produce solid objects like in Star Trek for them to be useful. Like, in that case you could hide displays while not in use, easily carry the small holo emitter around and adjust the size to your liking.
Another non-favorite of mine is the sci-fi bend. Where everything just has a 125 degree bend in it for some reason. Screens? Just cut out a bit at the corner with a 125 degree bend. Door? Seam down the middle will have a 125 degree bend in it. Wall panels? Random 125 degree bend in the line.
Obviously they won’t have a screen anymore. They’ll be pop-up displays. So if you’re sitting on a train and your romantic partner sends you a steamy selfie…guess who has an audience?
What we expect a new tech to deliver and what it actually becomes are two very different things.
Eg: Video calls.
When 3G (first video call capable network) was rolled out in the early '00s every telco and tech pundit was talking about the coming age of the video phone where everyone would video call everyone else.
What happened?
Voice call traffic fell off a cliff (and video calls died for a decade) as everyone was texting rather than calling on their phones.
2023, and I HATE video calls. I mean, I don’t like audio either, but video is just… Please let me just do my work. At the very least don’t make me come on camera to talk to people who also don’t want to talk to me.
Same. It’s one thing if I’m calling my 7-year old niece that lives 100 miles away but I miss her and want to see her face. It’s something else entirely when I’m on a call I don’t want to be on in the first place, listening to people I don’t need to hear from who aren’t even talking to me.
My favorite part is where nobody is making eye contact because they are all looking at the screen instead f the camera.
Well, that or the one person who is having some weird technical issue that keep blasting the whole meeting with strange noises.
I always saw holograms as a cinematic device rather than something we’d actually used, much like the superbright monitors that would project what was on the screen onto the the actors, which allowed the fourth wall audience more information about what’s going on.
It’s much like the Star Trek transporter, less a plausible technology, and more an instrument of the medium.
OK; that’s starting to make sense. Thanks.
deleted by creator
They just see you flexing your fingers, they won’t know that your squeezing tits on a post on milfgonewild.
They’ll know.
hahaha, yes probably, but you can always deny.
