[but most of my imaginations about what might 'really' happen
are kind of boring and nerdy.* Like, "Someday music will be on a
chip" (I pictured a game cartridge the side of your pinky-nail]
- and that was in the mid 80s when I was a teenager.* Well,
apparently I wasn't the only one with that idea 'cause SD and
micro-SD are here.
Or smartphones.* In 6th grade, I remember talking about the
idea.* Not as phones, but just we'd be connected to every
library in the world, be able to talk to each other on things
that fit in our pocket, write on it, get music, watch TV and
have access to everything that ever was made by humans on there,
whole societies would form on it... I'm still waiting for
devices that let people shake hands via computer... and for
smells to be transferred over... there's a few things that
aren't true yet... foldable screens like newspapers that are
just as cheap... etc yeah.. anyway..* Internet and smartphones..
.and, I didn't even have to do a thing except... be here. :P ]
My predictions are exciting to me, but they're usually just
doable things, stuff that I'd make myself if I had access to the
materials and technology to experiment with]
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9:29 PM
Like here's a simple idea: something akin to a microphone or fan
that you blow into but it measures wind velocity, direction,
etc. On the other end, a person has a device like a fan that
blows out the air at the same temperature, velocity, direction,
etc. I don't know what it would be used for, but I don't see any
reason why it couldn't happen.* I have simple ideas.
Transmitting textures is another one.* We have pixels on a
screen.* But I think I should be able to put my hand in a
cotton-like cloth of a sort with pressure sensitivity weaved in
that has very fine resolution and can transmit subtle 3D
textures.* Of course it would be used for naughty things -
that's the 'net -* but I'm not thinking of that stuff - just
transmitting textures.* Like put it on your head and the
receiver on the other end, could feel hair.* Or a grandmother
that lives far away could touch their grandbaby's face.* Stuff
like that. Or place it on an object like woodgrain on pirate
ship and on the other end, you could feel what the wood grain
feels like. It's just I don't see any reason why it shouldn't
exist.* We can do it in real life; our fingers and hands feel
textures; like I can feel the texture of the keyboard as I type
- we have the bandwidth but maybe the technology isn't ready yet
- maybe it is, I dunno.
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