Foreseeing the Future
Hubby and I were talking about our dream house today, and what particular electronics we might have on hand for the grandkids to play with when they came over. “Do you suppose they’ll have game systems that’ll just play music too?” he asked me.
“I imagine they’ll have systems that’ll do just about anything you want by then,” I replied.
But it got me to thinking. Fifteen or twenty years from now, home entertainment surely will have transformed, and I’m pretty excited to think about what it’ll look like by then. Will we have holographic video games? Will e-books come with their own soundtracks? What do you think the future holds for us?
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June 24th, 2010 at 9:35 am
One thing I’m hoping it won’t hold is the closing of paper bookstores or the limiting of printing. Ebooks are nifty for travel but I want to keep my paper fix too!!
Ooo and maybe a stuffed shelf or 3 on my bookcase labeled ‘Rardin’ (please)
June 24th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Good question…
I think the classes will be done by internet, or at least that computers will replace notebooks and other school supplies.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I also think we’ll have touch holographic screens—the kind that’s in Iron Man. We’ll be playing chess on holographic boards, holographic computers, tubular beds, suspended bathtubs…I just really hope what Kalimera said doesn’t happen (but it most likely will)…my attention span on the computer is nil, plus, it’d feel impersonal.
June 24th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
There better be a cure for cancer and AIDS by then! Way too many good people have died because of them. We can do everything else to our bodies, why not actually help them? That and hopefully a decrease of obesity in America. It’s scary to see how many people are far overweight here. Not so much in my state, we were somehow voted the fittest, but its still a huge problem. That would be a good start to the future.
June 24th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I really don’t know, but you’ll probably have to sell a kidney or let them hold on to the title of your car ’till the electronics are paid off. I’m gonna stay old school for as long as I can. I mean some of my favorite movies I watch at home are on VHS and that’s the way I like it.
June 25th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
They’d never buy my kidney, Nicole. I have to pee waaaay too often!
June 25th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I’m with you, Andrea. What the hell with no vaccine for either one by now, too?
June 25th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
I am so ready for that, Priscilla!
June 25th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
I think we’ll be all about the holograms! And video games will be like you see in films where you’re wearing a fancy headset and you’re in the game. Hoverboards would be seriously cool!
As for the ebooks, as long as you can still get paper books i’ll be happy!
June 25th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Here’s what I don’t get Kalimera, that teachers won’t allow kids to bring their laptops in to take notes on already. So dumb. I think they’re worried about students playing games. But to my mind, if they’re that idiotic, they deserve to fail out.
June 25th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I’m with you, Tori. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t ever see myself getting into e-books.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I hope they don’t replace paper books – love them! But what if those flat-screen tvs got so flat they came in a can and you had to paint them onto the wall?
June 26th, 2010 at 7:47 am
Eventually a baby will be born and the doctor will zap it behind the ear with a wee microchip (like they do to pets now) and that will be that child’s own personal data web interface for everything throughout their whole life. Schooling, entertainment,teh google
, banking, work, communications, everything will be “onboard” so to speak, and implanted so it never gets lost/stolen/turned off. We’ll all be wi-fi-ed. Nightmare….
June 27th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Nightmare, indeed, Rowena. Within our lifetimes, I’m betting. Gad.
June 27th, 2010 at 9:45 am
That would be kinda cool–if my wall was flat. Which it is sooo not. Yet another quirk of the old house, Deenie!
June 28th, 2010 at 3:39 am
I would hate for bookstores to become obsolete – I love to browse the aisles and talk to people, and get a peanut butter cup cookie and caramel frappuccino. I love talking to the staff and getting their recommendations and hearing the music playing that they’ve chosen and finding out who that is who’s singing so well! I love the community that is the bookstore and how it’s like a library, but in some ways, better. I hope to have ebooks come in printed and oral form – so I can read up to a point, and when I get into the car, I can set it to audio and it’ll read to me from where I left off. I’d like some videos of the action – or pictures sometimes coming up holographically. And I’d love there to be a soundtrack to the novels.
June 28th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Okay, Jennifer, now I feel like I just have to go to the bookstore. What a lovely picture!
July 12th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I would think they’ve perfected the LED tattoos scientists are working on. Something about it being able to read blood pressure or reappearing tattoos that react to your emotions. I’m not sure, I haven’t looked into it much…