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user-inactivated  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you think will be the future of technology?

I see the next evolution of movies/cinema being holographic, fully immersive. Meaning, the movie will play, and you'll be able to step into the movie, and see it from within the scene, no matter your viewpoint.

Touchable holograms. Keyboards projected into space. Computer display that is projected a few feet in front of your eyes, overlaps what you see. Tap implants in your thumb to bring up a more complex interface.

File storage systems that are 3d, holographic, complicated arrays. Every home has a nursery, recycling eco systems, water reuse, small rooms that generate oxygen. Solar everywhere. Clean energy.

The LCD displays of today no longer exist. LCD monitors of the future will be suspended light instead, touchable, interactive hologram, video projected onto air.

Robotics, adaptive technologies advances so much that it's no longer just for people with disabilities. They're now small enough that it enables short term flight, jumping large distances, and parks are created to take advantage of this. Genetic engineering, or human/robotic interfaces make it so we can see in infrared, like a cat. I can see an industry developed around this; let's say, one technology makes it so you can adjust your visual perception, and you get access to a variety of possibilities: bat, dolphin, single celled amoeba.

Interactive, touchable holograms means you can BE the dolphin dancing through the ocean, you can feel the ocean against your skin, the sunlight fractal-ing through the waves. You can be a tree with ancient bark in a springtime glade. You can be a neuron in a cascading bath of synaptic fireworks. Neural interfacing gets advanced enough that we can touch, taste, hear things in drastically different ways, and an industry builds around that, and humans begin to dream up new fantasy states of being, of sentience, of sensation.