Post: #1

They have come a pretty long way in a short time. Theyre messing up night life, causing people to not socialize, letting creeps send dick pics and blowing up girls egos with apps and easy to access dating sites. So what does the future look like for them and their effects on society? What will phones be like.in 5 or 10 years?

Post: #2

(11-17-2013 09:33 PM)houston Wrote:  They have come a pretty long way in a short time. Theyre messing up night life, causing people to not socialize, letting creeps send dick pics and blowing up girls egos with apps and easy to access dating sites. So what does the future look like for them and their effects on society? What will phones be like.in 5 or 10 years?

I think these things will be an extension of humans.

Credit cards, finances, currency, it will all be tied in. They are obviously trying to eliminate physical currency, so they will make you just swipe your phone for any purchase.

Hell, they are already trying to tie people fingerprints to these things and no one is questioning it. At all. Not one peep. Stupid Sheep.

DNA, Blood samples, medical history everything will be on those things.

It is so crazy how everyone is walking around with a tracking device. Voluntarily.

I have said it before and I will say it again, I can't wait for the day that I have enough dough and I can throw my cell phone(s) in the ocean.

Post: #3

Look to Japan and Korea for technology trends. They have had video over cellular over 10 years ago.

I think more things will be cloud based. You'll be able to pick up a disposable cell phone, login to your cloud VOIP account and use your phone.

Software will be web based or browser based as will video games to combat piracy.

I think tech will overload the common folk and they'll abandon it. It's funny how girls I know can afford $500 iPhones but are too dumb to use half the features.

It's battery technology that needs to advance to power things longer than 30 minutes.

Post: #4

(11-17-2013 09:38 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  I can't wait for the day that I have enough dough and I can throw my cell phone(s) in the ocean.

I'm seriously considering getting a landline again. No more text messages, picture messages, personal GPS, or the ability to be nagged anytime, anywhere. Maybe keep one charged old cell phone without a subscription in the whip for emergencies, since any cell phone, with a subscription or not, can dial 911.

I wonder if any company still makes answering machines? I hate voicemail. Hell, I wonder how much landline service costs these days. Cheaper I'd hope, to compete with cell phone prices.

Maybe it's time to call the local Bell company and see what's up. I finally got rid of this setup back in 2006 -

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Post: #5

In 20 years it will probably just be a chip planted on our brains. We will merely think "call mom" and we will hear the entire conversation take place in our head.

Post: #6

(11-17-2013 09:38 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(11-17-2013 09:33 PM)houston Wrote:  They have come a pretty long way in a short time. Theyre messing up night life, causing people to not socialize, letting creeps send dick pics and blowing up girls egos with apps and easy to access dating sites. So what does the future look like for them and their effects on society? What will phones be like.in 5 or 10 years?

I think these things will be an extension of humans.

Credit cards, finances, currency, it will all be tied in. They are obviously trying to eliminate physical currency, so they will make you just swipe your phone for any purchase.

Hell, they are already trying to tie people fingerprints to these things and no one is questioning it. At all. Not one peep. Stupid Sheep.

DNA, Blood samples, medical history everything will be on those things.

It is so crazy how everyone is walking around with a tracking device. Voluntarily.

I have said it before and I will say it again, I can't wait for the day that I have enough dough and I can throw my cell phone(s) in the ocean.

The elmination of physical currency is one of the most dangerous agendas floating around these days.

Truth is that your smartphone camera could be on the whole time, sending a feed to the NSA building.

We are becoming The Borg.

Post: #7

(11-17-2013 09:58 PM)Parlay44 Wrote:  Look to Japan and Korea for technology trends. They have had video over cellular over 10 years ago.

I think more things will be cloud based. You'll be able to pick up a disposable cell phone, login to your cloud VOIP account and use your phone.

Software will be web based or browser based as will video games to combat piracy.

I think tech will overload the common folk and they'll abandon it. It's funny how girls I know can afford $500 iPhones but are too dumb to use half the features.

It's battery technology that needs to advance to power things longer than 30 minutes.

The funny about Asia and cell tech is that even though they have been a decade ahead it all came to a stop with the Apple and Samsung rivalry. Whatever those phones offer is pretty much similar. Apple Cockblock phone innovations with a forced push towards apps and phone makers just all went with it with the necessity to compete. Phones were getting smaller and more advanced but Apple and Samsung fuked that all up.

Phones will get worse. Google for instance just wants to make a bubble in which your online avatar can be whored with advertisements. Your browsing, social, and shipping patterns will all be known and ads will try to influence your decision making and purchases all day long.

Post: #8

I think (read: hope) there will be an emergence of the black market manufacturers who will make smartphone with jammers and other illegal hardware in order to stop social life from degrading even more.

But the future of mainstream devices lies in hologram keyboards and music equalizers (for more attention whoring in the club) and face and expression detection scanners that will use those holograms for virtual blowjobs.

Post: #9

(11-17-2013 11:00 PM)hoops330 Wrote:  In 20 years it will probably just be a chip planted on our brains. We will merely think "call mom" and we will hear the entire conversation take place in our head.

Indeed. Let me elaborate a bit on how I think it will be like.

In the long term, assuming no catastrophe of some kind, I see the future progressing towards a Ghost in the Shell like world.

If you read some of the novels, it basically describes the way things progressed, and it's exactly the way we're seeing now.

Computers went to portable terminals (sounds familiar, I'm sure). Then people started to wear them- Google Glass anyone?. Trust me, in the next ten years we're going to see a lot more wearable terminals like this. Logically the next step to go would be contact lenses or voice-controlled small wearable devices.

Then, finally, man and machine began to merge, and people began to get cyberbrains. You had the ability to connect without any external device, directly from your brain.

If you think the dating scene is bad now, just wait until girls can literally start filtering cock offers and attention whoring in their heads.

What might tip the balance back toward men though in such a world will be the availability of fuckdoll technology. This dynamic was actually somewhat explored on an episode called "Android and I." Rich, handsome son of an ambassador didn't want to deal with real women and instead just made do with his android that he turned into his perfect girlfriend.

It was beta, and the "girl" was bland, but I can see this happening with a lot of middle or upper class betas who get fed up and give up in the future. This would at least partially curb a girl's ego, I think.

Imagine also, Google trying to control what goes on in your own head. It's a scary thought. Worse, people pretty much need cyberbrains to survive. If you don't have one you're societal reject living in the gutter, a pauper who can't afford any prosthetics.

Overall it's a really good look at what may happen in the future. Highly recommended.

As to a date? The cyberization of the brain I can fully see happening by 2040. Hell, there's already been some success with brain signals controlling computers.

Post: #10

So far, the smart phone has increased my odds with online dating. That's because the OKC app can do things that the regular one can't. And then there is Tinder.

Good for players, bad for society and redpill stuff.

Post: #11

(11-17-2013 11:00 PM)hoops330 Wrote:  In 20 years it will probably just be a chip planted on our brains. We will merely think "call mom" and we will hear the entire conversation take place in our head.

Yep. Here's how I see it:

In the not too distant future, everyone is equipped with a chip at birth. There's no more I.D. card, or passport, or Social Security card. It's all on there. When dealing with any government bureau, you simply get scanned. Whether it's the DMV, or courthouse, or even checking out at the grocery store. When you go to the bank and open up a new credit account, they log into a central database and reconfigure your chip and banking information. Everything about you: employment history, financial information, family, criminal record, driving record, it's all on the chip. No more cash transactions. You go to the grocery store, your bill comes to 25,093.82 in GMU (Global Money Units) for a box of freeze-dried entrees and some synthetic milk, and you walk out the door and the amount is automatically deducted from your bank account.

Your car is automatically unlocked as you touch the door handle.
You can call anyone from this chip, anywhere in the world (long distance charges apply)
Your employer knows exactly what time you arrive and leave work.
Police know everything about you, 24/7. There's no more, "Where work you on the evening of the 14th?" They already know exactly where you were and the 300 people that were in a 50-foot radius of you.
Female hamsters will be off the charts.
Virtual sex will replace a lot of dating.
There will be a massive war with Islam at some point leading up to this.
There will be some outliers, like the Savage in Brave New World. There will be sparsely populated rural areas that are poverty stricken, and most likely toxic, not assimilated into urban areas.

Post: #12

Wait for it....... drum roll.......Smarter Phones

Post: #13

Players will have to take refuge in a a giant shaped space craft.

Post: #14

Smart phones are nothing special. They're just a reincarnation of the desktop pc in a new form factor. We've always had email, instant messaging, web browsing ...etc. Now we just have it in our hands. I have yet to see something truly new come out of technology in the past 20 years.

Post: #15

There is a huge void of open source smartphones. This will be the next greatest potential.

Post: #16

The number one thing I hate about the proliferation of smart phones and social media is the fact that it brought a bunch of hamsters to the internet.

Post: #17

I remember circa 2000 wondering if anyone would invent a phone that was ALSO an mp3 player AND a camera.

Post: #18

The future includes wearable technology and artificial intelligence.

Your phone will have the ability to communicate with various sensors on your body, whether it be a heart monitor, socks, underwear, etc. This is already kind of in its early stages. The phone will become less of a device and more of a companion, a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence. It will replace having going to the doctor, you'll be able to diagnose yourself virtually. The only real hindrance with this is human's need to squeeze profit before advancing the technology (including labor unions who are scared to automate anything and corporate overlords who delay progress so they can release incrementally better products over a longer life to maximize profits).

We're seeing early stages of this with Siri and other similar services.

Post: #19

Post: #20

The problem is not the phone, it's the use you make of it. It's alpha to use it in MINIMALIST ways. It's beta and feminine to stick it at your fingers all day.

Post: #21

I wouldn't mind a device that would only monitor your blood and vitamin levels. Save on lab tests.

Post: #22

(11-18-2013 06:30 PM)soup Wrote:  

This was fascinating to watch. The world has changed enough from when I was a kid in the early to mid 90's, I can't imagine what's to come. I want to see fantastic progress in a lot of places - conservation, urban planning, medicine, space science, historic preservation and understanding, etc.