We’re going to spend the rest of our lives there, no?
Post-scarcity and abolishment of pain.
some thoughts about the future are in 108, the spiritual successor to 107, a file written for the AK12, long ago. Probably 2008 or 2009. Possibly 2012. That’d make sense.
Revised now.
✨ musings about the future, edition of the now ✨
started [2019-11-15 Fri 22:45]
👩🏻💻 personal
Smart watches have reached radio feature parity with smartphones, where to next? What’s the next PAN device? ⌚️
- sealed thin-ish glass watch-y pebble computers
- Better web browsers than WAP imode phones
- Is there money in this (except hardware and connectivity)?
- Need to be truly untethered from phones
- Apple Watch to Android is iPod to Windows, though lacking a true killer feature
- true wireless LTE connected earbuds in most ears, most of the time, with not that smart but functional voice assistants
- Phone charges both (2019 refresh cycle delivered this)
- Smart Rings isn’t it.
Xiaomi and Samsung still make smart band style things with tall displays. I like the form factor. Xiaomi puts them on pendants and shoe clips, too.
👘💡 lit clothing (way beyond kids shoes and jogging stuff)
Dual wielding phones and self printed PDAs
- homebuilt cyberdecks 😗
- More than one pocket dedicated to tech
- A few more Pokémon Gos and we’ve got this
Boutique phone solutions like USB-C connected second screen, weeklong battery, mechanical camera zoom…
Folding phones, triptych phones - either tiny unfolding to phone, or phone unfolding to tablet, screens on front and back
Glass screens with tiny bezels > flexible screens. This can play out for a long time.
Ultra Wide Band, precise indoor location
Something in the vein of Psion / Nokia Communicator / Sony Vaio Picturebook would be nice
I bought a GPD WIN Max in 2020, a EEEPC in 2007.
Surface Neo (cancelled)
GPD WIN MAX
SONY PCG U1
SONY VAIO Picturebook
👨👨👧👧 Social
Mass exodus from Africa and South America ⬆️
Dammed / Damned cities 🌊
Shifting drug acceptance, away from vaping, downers, towards performance enablers 💊
Less cash in wallets and harder activation locks make burglary, theft and muggings less and less attractive, replaced by what?
- Physical keys 🔑 slowly disappear
Scuttlebutt: 🦀 social networks modeled after human ones, distributed and federated, away from corp control, and able to operate off-line when necessary: that is, to function completely on privately owned infrastructure, not through any ISP
Walkaway-y solarpunks, though I claim you can walk away and stay, inner emmigrés
IoT democratization, community owned LoRa-Style nets, less patent encumbered at some point
- Text messages will just get through: the pager, 2.0 📟
- A 2020 pager could be incredibly small, light, lasting: like a credit card calculator, but flatter. Maybe no keyboard, just lots of canned responses
Coffeehouse / Kiosk / Cell Phone Shop / Print Shop / Internet Café Evolution ☕️🍬🍺☎️🖨
Food printers - We have prototype food printers at workplace HQ. -jl
- Impossible Meat or whatever it’s called 🍔
- [2024-03-06 Wed 09:53] okay vegan fried chicken is just chicken now
Plug in / wirelessly connect personal VR / AR hardware to powerful systems / connections, or your phone to a big display 📺 / keyboard ⌨️ / unlimited data 💽
⚙️ personal manufacturing
- 3D printers just available
- Just bought my first for like 170€, 22x22x25cm3 workspace, 2019-03-20
- Printers, cutters, lathes
- Overhead mounted 2020 rails to shift equipment, like those basement cold storage filing cabinets
superbatteries - instacharge capacitors topped up on universal induction chargepads (standards groups are forming, starbucks / airplanes / notebook manufacturers (phone charging!) need to step up)
[2024-03-06 Wed 09:25] This happened: Qi2 charges Android & iPhone and codifies magnetic attachment. Many more things other than phones can benefit: flashlights, wireless headphones, vapes, game consoles, controllers, shavers, toothbrushes, vibes, watches (Qi2 on one side, bespoke watch charger on the other: this also for other tiny chargeable things)
⛺ living
- VR / AR acceptance
Meta and Apple haven’t normalized XR yet, but the public is aware that there’s something there.
- Architecture changes with global warming
Less walls, more flowing air.
green city centers 🌳🏢🌴
- car bans
- Damn scooters everywhere 🛴 (I kinda get them now.)
pod house x container
festivals
city mesh stuff
Magazines in waiting rooms are worth nothing, what replaces them
- just a boring stack of slow ad-ridden tablets?
- Color e-Ink progress seems slow
- e-Ink price tags are everywhere now
☀️ Solarpunk arcology
- solar slum
- A messy village of containers
- greened over, planters compete with solar panels for light
- vertical for density, but with first-class wheelchair / wheeled robot access
- thick vines of CAT cables rooting and routing everywhere
- workshop / modal factory / bike shop 🔧
- not quite yet moldy sofas readily wheeled into the sun 🛋
- more Buckminster Fuller domes 🌐
- 3d print edge connectors, get cheap vertices, start sphering.
🖼 art
VR painting 🖍
AR reality makeovers / shaders 🥽
💼 work
Working at ever-higher abstraction levels
- Automation Automation
- what is even new useful software to have? what does it do? Copy information? What remains “unsolved”?
- Next Lisp inspired language
- home cloud automation provsioning orchestration pupeteering
- automatically mining the Coin Of The Day
how can the 19” / HE / Enclosure paradigm be revolutionized again? Passive backplanes?
remote desktop stuff
Telepresence robots / drones
- Saw a worker remote control a lawn- or rather bushmower the size of a fridge
next marketing paradigm after, uh, hyperconverged?
who owns the machines, who profits from all this, why do we still work, this should all be done
What even is a job
- collapse of the gig economy
🚄 transportation
Post-smartphone e-bikes
- Trikes
- Cargo optimized
- Full rain enclosure
self-driving greyhounds 🚍
malls vs drone delivery vs pressurized tubes, robot edition
luggage that follows you around, rincewind style - or even just luggage carts
Autonomous car as a platform
- personal and stuff transportation
- mobile coworking spaces
- trash / glass / paper recycling, toilet rentals, venue / circus / festival / Wagenburg
- scaffolding builders
- tractors / bulldozers
- trenching / cable laying
- rough landscaping
- paving
- all of agriculture
🚀 in the long run
Arcos on mars - no other way really
rare earth meteorites catched & thrown to earth / mined upstairs - RE prices drop to 1%, RE magnets/related tech in everything
Post-CRISPR gene editing
- End AIDS and cancer
- Switch fertility on and off
- Sexual revolution
🃏 what
12h+ batteries
hexgrids. pentagonal tilings. Cairo tiling.
platonic solids
Self-repair / self printing is the remaining “hard” hardware problem
multi-mode multi-medium multi-vector resilience
ever denser fabric
b’omarr monks
some inspo
