# You wake up five years from now. Technologically, what's the hardest thing to get used to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984 "2013-06-26T20:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/21 "2013-06-27T13:59:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s a good thing nobody will ever have to write anything in the future, because composing a novel on an ipadiPad touchscreen is gonna suck. You’ll have to use one of those wireless keyboards that you can buy for it. And a special stand to make the stupid thing stand upright to work as a proper screen. I swear that what we’re really doing with these tablets is just reinventing the laptop, only less practical and more expensive. > [@DrFidelius](#): > > Wasn’t 1997 only about five years ago? Not unless you just experienced a time slip… ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/22 "2013-06-27T14:30:45Z")
Is 5 years really a big jump in technology? Keep in mind that at that time, the Xbone and PS4 will still be in their prime. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/23 "2013-06-27T14:46:24Z")
> [@Scholar\_Beardpig](#): > > The desk-top computer as we know it, even the laptop, has ceased to exist. The iPhone 9s and Samsung S6s have so much computing power in them, to say nothing of the new tablets, that only hard-core gaming nerds bother with what I’d call a ‘real computer’ anymore. Damn it, a computer is loud, it’s heavy, and it can heat your home on a cold winter night! I think a bigger surprise to 2013-ers will be how tablets have _not_ replaced bigger computers. Lots of people seem to think it’s inevitable, the PC age is over, etc., but I disagree. Lack of computing power is not what stops tablets from being good all-purpose computing devices. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/24 "2013-06-27T15:29:51Z")
People will really start to protest how computers and robots are impacting workforce participation and pay levels. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/25 "2013-06-27T15:30:41Z")
Whatever the heck microsoft has done with MSword’s interface. It seems as if every time I begin to be able to put documents together in an efficient manner, they change it up again to be more “intuitive.”. So then I have to play around again and figure out how to make it think I want to do what I want to do, in order to get it to make the right guess and do that for me.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/26 "2013-06-27T15:36:07Z")
_The Johnny Depp Movie Channel_ _The Real Housewives of The Senate_ The “Best Computer-Generated Actor” and “Best Computer-Generated Actress” categories at The Oscars. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/27 "2013-06-27T15:39:55Z")
The Holodeck. Oh, wait, no - that’ll be \*easy \*to get used to. The long queues to use it, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/28 "2013-06-27T15:56:20Z")
Flying cars, it’s always flying cars. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/29 "2013-06-27T16:39:44Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > I think a bigger surprise to 2013-ers will be how tablets have _not_ replaced bigger computers. Lots of people seem to think it’s inevitable, the PC age is over, etc., but I disagree. Lack of computing power is not what stops tablets from being good all-purpose computing devices. Agreed. Five years ago, people were predicting that the paper book would be dead by now because of all the Kindles that would take over. That didn’t happen and neither will the tablet revolution. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/30 "2013-06-27T16:50:33Z")
The common use of robots to perform complex surgical procedures is going be freaky. It’s already started, but its coming to a hospital near you soon. And those pesky little private drones are going to be a PITA once they become insect size. I’m going to have to think about it really hard before I get a bionic eye implant. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/31 "2013-06-27T16:56:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The Windows 12 interface. Windows 12 = Windows 8, service pack 378 ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/32 "2013-06-27T17:09:32Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > Windows 12 = Windows 8, service pack 378 If the alternate version rule still applies (good version, bad version, good version, etc.), all the sensible people will still be on Windows 11, or more realistically Windows 9. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/33 "2013-06-27T17:37:53Z")
Google Glass will have evolved into Google VR. Looking at a restaurant will instantly bring up it’s menu, Urbanspoon rating, and last health department inspection report. Interfaced with your shopping list, will show you an optimized path through the store to get everything in the least time. Jailbroken glasses will have real time, live action photoshopping so you don’t have to imagine everyone in their underwear while giving a presentation. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/34 "2013-06-27T18:20:39Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > How to get my flying car out of second gear. Are you the guy who keeps stalling when in the merging lane? Right there at 50 meters up, every time, man. For me, it’s not the new technology so much as seeing the Earth choked with the old stuff. All those 4GB RAM, 500 GB hdd Windows 7 boxes, the old 802.11N APs, and those old Internet routers are all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/35 "2013-06-27T18:21:37Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Agreed. Five years ago, people were predicting that the paper book would be dead by now because of all the Kindles that would take over. That didn’t happen and neither will the tablet revolution. I agree, but I don’t think PCs are where it’s at in 5 years either. Most people use their PCs at home for a combination of gaming, internet surfing, and occasional productivity uses. I personally think that something like an Xbox/Playstation with better cable TV/DVR functionality is what’s going to take over for the PC, especially when productivity apps and keyboards are readily available. In essence, they’ll be locked-down PCs with standardized hardware, software and operating systems, but they won’t be called PCs anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/36 "2013-06-27T21:47:54Z")
Ducking all the drones delivering pizza Our KCBS traffic helicopters replaced by drones Finding places to plug in the car. The ghost of Steve Jobs haunting the new Apple HQ. “The stock price is 200? WTF is wrong with you people?” ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/37 "2013-06-27T22:47:11Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The ghost of Steve Jobs haunting the new Apple HQ. “The stock price is 200? WTF is wrong with you people?” That’s 200 new bucks — the government knocked the last zero off the currency to match inflation (much as France did with the new franc in 1960) and to save space on phone screens. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/38 "2013-06-28T01:38:44Z")
This thread, showing up as a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/39 "2013-06-28T05:16:22Z")
People wearing their Google Glasses and using the “naked skin app”, which augments the field of vision of the user by overlaying a realistic nakedness over selected viewees in real time. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984/40 "2013-06-28T06:18:53Z")
That ‘Great Gatsby 3’ is in a 3-D format that is not compatible with my THX Certified cornea implants. Still, it’s good to see Adam Sandler and Tyler Perry working together again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wake-up-five-years-from-now-technologically-whats-the-hardest-thing-to-get-used-to/661984.md?page=3)