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.
Not unless you just experienced a time slip…
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.
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.
People will really start to protest how computers and robots are impacting workforce participation and pay levels.
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:
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.
The Holodeck.
Oh, wait, no - that’ll be *easy *to get used to. The long queues to use it, not so much.
Flying cars, it’s always flying cars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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.
This thread, showing up as a zombie.
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.
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.