What do I want from my technology? What has been my vision of technology for fifteen years?
I want a wearable computer. One that can prompt me with the names of people that I encounter if I use a gesture to indicate I’ve forgotten the name. I want a HUD overlaid on my vision to indicate useful information about my surroundings, like ambient temperature, UV index, traffic jams nearby, news relevant to my location, personal GPS, and other features. I want to be able to identify others who are wearing similar technology so that we can interact in virtual space while interacting in real space. I’d like it to sense when I’m in my vehicle and display useful status information — like speed, road conditions, etc. — in a HUD while I’m driving.
But for now, I’d settle for an always-on visual that I can put on in the morning that tells me when I get an email and allows me to draw on a contact list with photos. That’s quite doable. Maybe a pair of glasses?
Or maybe the thing that got me posting about this topic today… maybe a pair of these contact lenses…
Great
Once this is wide-spread we can go from people spontaneously starting conversations with “thin air” today (thanks to ear-bud headsets) to people staring at you without “seeing” you because they’re reading web pages!
If you can’t take the
If you can’t take the information, get off the superhighway, Luddite. 😛
Absolutely!
I think it would be awesome for people to have their own virtual worlds they can carry with them all the time. If you went out without carrying around your gear, you could call it “going naked”.
Like “What are you doing on Sunday?” “I’m going to go running naked through the park.” “Sweet, I haven’t gone naked for years except in my house.” “Dude, I stopped having sex naked years ago.”
OK, maybe it wouldn’t be so cool, but technology for technology’s sake is just fun and mind-expanding.
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Matthew P. Barnson