Apparently this will happen in about ten years or even much sooner.

Most of us I presume have adapted to smart phones becoming necessary to exist.

This was generally harder the older you are and obviously super easy for digital natives.

But how do you feel about the next step?

Personally I've had enough. I would be happy to see smart phones get better and better, especially more secure, but don't want to ever give them up.

 

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Apparently this will happen in about ten years or even much sooner.

Most of us I presume have adapted to smart phones becoming necessary to exist.

This was generally harder the older you are and obviously super easy for digital natives.

But how do you feel about the next step?

Personally I've had enough. I would be happy to see smart phones get better and better, especially more secure, but don't want to ever give them up.

 

...and the next step is...................?

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Apparently this will happen in about ten years or even much sooner.

Most of us I presume have adapted to smart phones becoming necessary to exist.

This was generally harder the older you are and obviously super easy for digital natives.

But how do you feel about the next step?

Personally I've had enough. I would be happy to see smart phones get better and better, especially more secure, but don't want to ever give them up.

 

 

I do not think you will have to give them up. Yes glasses will have advantages, but phones will have advantages the glasses can never provide.

 

Much like there was radio and tv i suspect there wil be AI glasses and phones. One will not kill the other.

Video killed the radio star....or did it. 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HRXeBKys-Sw&pp=ygUbdmlkZW8ga2lsbGVkIHRoZSByYWRpbyBzdGFy0gcJCWIABgo59PVc

19 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Video killed the radio star....or did it. 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HRXeBKys-Sw&pp=ygUbdmlkZW8ga2lsbGVkIHRoZSByYWRpbyBzdGFy0gcJCWIABgo59PVc

 

Howard Stern would say no.

1 hour ago, connda said:

...and the next step is...................?

It's being developed now. Obviously about AI. 

NeuroLink , it's gonna be hugeeee......

14 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

NeuroLink , it's gonna be hugeeee......

severance

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

 

I do not think you will have to give them up. Yes glasses will have advantages, but phones will have advantages the glasses can never provide.

 

Much like there was radio and tv i suspect there wil be AI glasses and phones. One will not kill the other.

 

Exactly. Apple will want to sell you both. Along with a Mac, iPad, AirPods, HomePods etc. 

28 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

NeuroLink , it's gonna be hugeeee......

Fairly sure some on here will get a "cannot connect" message.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Apparently this will happen in about ten years or even much sooner.

Most of us I presume have adapted to smart phones becoming necessary to exist.

This was generally harder the older you are and obviously super easy for digital natives.

But how do you feel about the next step?

Personally I've had enough. I would be happy to see smart phones get better and better, especially more secure, but don't want to ever give them up.

 

why do you say this? Smart phones are just a computer with a touch screen and cell receivers. People don't want glasses or any other silly nonsense. This has been tried many times now and people don't want it.

21 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

why do you say this? Smart phones are just a computer with a touch screen and cell receivers. People don't want glasses or any other silly nonsense. This has been tried many times now and people don't want it.

 

I'm not sure, AI glasses have advantages over phones in some circumstances, basically related to instant translation and info, built in speakers and other things that make using them easier than smartphones. I can see AI glasses being a success. I just don't think they will replace phones altogether because glasses can't ever provide some of the advantages of the phones.

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

I do not think you will have to give them up. Yes glasses will have advantages, but phones will have advantages the glasses can never provide.

22 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

why do you say this? Smart phones are just a computer with a touch screen and cell receivers. People don't want glasses or any other silly nonsense. This has been tried many times now and people don't want it.

 

I agree with these two.  Wearables aren't that popular (e.g. VR and the apple thing).  Even smart watches are just gimmicky.  The thing is, it's all about the screen.  Phones got a lot smaller, then got bigger again when people wanted touch screens and to play movies and games.

 

I know it sounds a bit "everything that will be invented", but people still like tablets and laptops.  The fact that these haven't been replaced by phones, and phones haven't been replaced, speaks volumes.

 

Unless they can come up with something that goes directly into the brain and creates something that looks exactly like reality, I can't see anything changing soon.

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Fairly sure some on here will get a "cannot connect" message.

Some are so hopping mad at Elon ending deep state corruption, they would molotov cocktail their NeuroLink implant😅

17 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Some are so hopping mad at Elon ending deep state corruption, they would molotov cocktail their NeuroLink implant😅

"Elon ending deep state corruption". That's funny.

No one else mentioned Musk, why the need to bring in something so ridiculous and unrelated?

35 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

No one else mentioned Musk

Yet

 

35 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

why the need to bring in something so ridiculous and unrelated

1) Because he is at the forefront of what comes after smartphones become obselete. 2) he is the liberals pinata and target of irrational hatred and thus makes his way into most threads. 

5 hours ago, connda said:

...and the next step is...................?

I'd like to know that too.

6 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

"Elon ending deep state corruption". That's funny.

No one else mentioned Musk, why the need to bring in something so ridiculous and unrelated?

Come now @josephbloggs, do you not understand that nothing is as important as, all solutions to any problem can be found, and all opinions can only be validated, in the vacuous brainfarts triggered by MAGA slogans!

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

But how do you feel about the next step?

How can you waste our time and a thread on a question when you don't give us the question and explain what the next step is?

 

I doubt that a direct connections to the brain's optical processing areas will be developed in the near future.  We will be stuck with carrying around some form of screen for decades.

 

Conceivably almost all processing could be moved off your personal device to centralized servers.  AI prediction and data caching could be used to reduce response time.  The reduced hardware requirements would result in smaller and cheaper devices but a more expensive infrastructure.

 

You would still call it a smartphone.

1 hour ago, Digitalbanana said:

How can you waste our time and a thread on a question when you don't give us the question and explain what the next step is?

 

I am still under presumption that participation is voluntary?

Who needs smart phones.

I only own one because the volume is louder and I am partially deaf.

No apps or wifi on it.

My lap top is much more secure and does more. (Try multiple screens on a phone?)

11 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

My lap top is much more secure and does more.

A lost laptop is a much greater security exposure than a lost (up to date) phone.  A phone can do a lot more than a laptop in many situations.  Can your laptop automatically execute a procedure when you take it to a specific location?  The hoop jumping required to accomplish that on a laptop becomes complicated.

1 hour ago, gamb00ler said:

I doubt that a direct connections to the brain's optical processing areas will be developed in the near future.  We will be stuck with carrying around some form of screen for decades.

 

Conceivably almost all processing could be moved off your personal device to centralized servers.  AI prediction and data caching could be used to reduce response time.  The reduced hardware requirements would result in smaller and cheaper devices but a more expensive infrastructure.

 

You would still call it a smartphone.

Total control then. That's a future I have no wish to live in.

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

Who needs smart phones.

I only own one because the volume is louder and I am partially deaf.

No apps or wifi on it.

My lap top is much more secure and does more. (Try multiple screens on a phone?)

Not me. My phone is over 20 years old and does what I need- lets me talk to other people.

 

End of the year I'll be forced to buy a <deleted> phone as they will not support whatever makes my phone work, though I will only be using it as a phone, and no <deleted> aps.

 

Incredibly, the human race survived without being controlled by a machine for 50,000 years. Sadly the humans are becoming slaves to the machine. When the aliens decide to conquer us we'll be a pushover.

37 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Total control then. That's a future I have no wish to live in.

I can understand that you have no concept of how an individual can protect their data.  But, it is not difficult for those with technical skills.  Most data breaches are due to social engineering such as phishing and spoofing.

12 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

NeuroLink , it's gonna be hugeeee......

I want that.

5 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

I can understand that you have no concept of how an individual can protect their data.  But, it is not difficult for those with technical skills.

And a life "off the grid" so to speak. But thats fun.

 

The problem with the future isnt phones or implants...its cash.

 

No cash=dictatorship.

5 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

I can understand that you have no concept of how an individual can protect their data.  But, it is not difficult for those with technical skills.  Most data breaches are due to social engineering such as phishing and spoofing.

I was responding to

 

42 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Conceivably almost all processing could be moved off your personal device to centralized servers. 

If you think the people that designed the things can't access everything that they can get hold of I have a bridge for sale.

Doesn't worry me as I'd never do anything on a machine connected to the internet that I would want to keep private.

At 79 years I'm not even going to think about whether my smartphone will become obsolete. But I certainly wouldn't want to be without it nowadays. From banking to shopping lists, E books to logic games, translator to news portaI, find it oh so useful. 

 

Just about the only thing I don't do with my smartphone is make phone calls!