When I'm 35, kids will laugh at me
General, Technology, General, TechnologyMaybe its the dojo someone put in my cigarettes, but I was thinking today about how by the time I'm 35 people are going to laugh at me and feel sorry for me. I mean, I grew up playing xbox, ps 1, SNES and gamecube. I have even seen an atari, and owned a 386 computer. I even own an xbox 360 and think it is the shit, and I crave a Playstation 3. I'm infatuated with systems that boast pathetic graphics and beasty footprints.
By the time I'm 35, the big thing that will be gone are TV's and desktop computers as we know them. They will be things of the past, like the "boombox" or all those other things you guys thought were cool in the 80's.
In the future, you ask, how will we watch movies or tv? Glasses. Think about it. What happened to those big boombox things that the last generation grew up with? They became IPODs and Zunes. Why listen to a big un-cool cd player sitting on your desk when you can have in-ear head phones and a 5 oz ipod?
I'm guessing within 3-5 years we will start seeing the start of glasses designed to replace your home theater. Maybe sooner.. I think I may have seen some yesterday...
Why watch a 52" tv from 12 feet away when you can just slip on your glasses and experience your vision being completely filled with what you want to watch. But why stop with just TV's? Why not pocket computers. You just grab your new Dell Pocket top, turn on your wireless tv glasses and super cool keyboard thing (don't know how that will work yet, let me smoke another one first), and you'll be using a computer like we used IPODS now.
Though... the word computers is a thing of the 80's.... Everything is a computer. We should call computers dacomput0rs... no... lets call them Terminals.. nah thats too 90's... Whatever.
Anyways it's going to be interesting talking to my kids and them being AMAZED at how I could watch video from 12 feet away from my device. I mean seriouslly.. How do we do it? We sit 12 feet away from our TV's, the TV probably only fills about 1/3 of our vision. That leaves 2/3 of vision filled with distractions. It's amazing how much technology sucks. I want my TV glasses tomorrow damnit.
I'm done.. damn dojo..
No joke.. I'm 19 and have rarely used them, maybe 20 times in my whole life. I hardly know my alphabet. My generation has dictionary.com, wikipedia.com, and thesaurus.com. Heck.. We don't even need to know how to spell. I can use big words I can't spell by typing how I think it is spelled into google, then searching and using their suggested spelling. Makes spelling pretty facile.
I forgot to add I have a 33 year old brother with a 6 year old daughter and he is already getting some of those questions.
Well, I've got to get back to my studies in otorhinolaryngological.
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