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What part of your daily life will seem absurd in 20 years?

687 sats \ 21 comments \ @wackster 2 Oct AskSN

I'm really hoping qwerty keyboards are no longer a thing.

(for reference, in 2005 you still had to walk into a bank to do most banking)

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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @itsrealfake 2 Oct

touching a "phone"

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 2 Oct

What do you think will take its place (how will we interface with the internet)?

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 2 Oct

I imagine that talking or gesturing to the device will be the main way to perform input. who knows how gesture or speech will be picked up by the device ... is it worn like a watch or glasses?

Output from the device will be either projected onto our retina, or displayed on some transparent thing on or in the eyes... eg contact lenses or some kind of plastic in the lens of the eye.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 3 Oct

I suspect the form factor of phones isn't going away and that it will be a little bit like cars -- a stable configuration that exists for a good long while.

The particular set of advantages provided by a screen that is about the size of a smart phone will be with us until numeral links are commonplace. Perhaps that happens in 20 years, but I don't think it will.

112 sats \ 0 replies \ @ivermectin 2 Oct

Privacy

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct

Huge parking lots

73 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 2 Oct

How few drones there are.

In 20 years I suspect drones will be a huge part of daily life.

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 2 Oct

"What's a doorbell grandpa?"

-Well, long ago, before we had brainchip notifications that a drone was on its way here...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 2 Oct

doorbells!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 2 Oct

Breathing.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 3 Oct

That's not very optimistic.

(Or maybe it is if in a "not breathing because I'm a cyborg" sense -- well, but actually I don't want to be a cyborg, so yes, UT's just not very optimistic)

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3 Oct

It's a mindset and expectation management. Once you've faced your own mortality and come out non-grumpy (at least most days), you'll be richer for it.