What do cell phones look like in the year 2144?
Obviously they won’t have a screen anymore. They’ll be pop-up displays. So if you’re sitting on a train and your romantic partner sends you a steamy selfie…guess who has an audience?
Has this annoyed anyone else?
If they’re tactical screens, that makes sense. But I still don’t think transparent displays on personal devices will be a thing in the future.
I suspect it’ll be neural implants. embedded on the optical nerve somewhere, injecting hologram-like images into our field of view. Maybe toss in some sort of marking system for our fingertips for the implant to track as an interface device.
this could also conceivably provide tactile feed back through weak shocks to the fingertips, mimicking touching something, giving you the floaty keyboard and private conversations.
You can choose between a pair of nintendo power gloves or tattooing your fingertips and little qr-codes on the fingernails.
I was thinking some sort of IR reflective ink. or UV reflective ink tattooes… on the pads and behind the fingernails (ouch)
In the futuuuuuuure, the concept of privacy has become obsolete. You share everything with everyone and the thing is, no one cares. Everyone has seen everything. Nothing is embarrassing any more. Until one day, the Cringelord is reborn…
I’m hooked, when’s this book coming out?
In fact, the only way that you could pray to make impression,
On the era ahead is that instead of being notable,
You make the data describing you undecodable.MC Frontalot, “Secrets From the Future”
This is just Unimatrix Zero from Star Trek Voyager, isn’t it?
So many movies and shows have phones being transparent rectangles that look like a piece of glass. It’s impractical for so many reasons from privacy to even being able to hold the thing.
Honestly I don’t think cellphones will change that much going forward. They will get more powerful. Maybe they will continue to replace other computing devices for people such as laptops, desktops and gaming consoles, but the form factor is as practical as it gets.
This is my bet as well. I think at some point, foldable screens will get good enough to get mass market, and then it will be about how thin/light they can make those so they get bigger screens but the device remains pocketable. Not to mention, screen tech matches/exceeds today. That’s the practical appeal of things like holos outside of just being aesthetically “future looking.”
I’m also very interested in the idea of AR glasses that can be worn normally, but that’s pretty limited by physics right now (battery and camera tech especially.)
I always saw holograms as a cinematic device rather than something we’d actually used, much like the superbright monitors that would project what was on the screen onto the the actors, which allowed the fourth wall audience more information about what’s going on.
It’s much like the Star Trek transporter, less a plausible technology, and more an instrument of the medium.
OK; that’s starting to make sense. Thanks.
Don’t worry, everything will be owned by a few companies, and privacy won’t even be an understood concept.
It’s far more likely it’s displayed directly into your brain.
I mean, we’re talking about 121 years from now - enough time to go from the telegraph to VR multiplayer games played by people from 5 continents over a worldwide network: it kinda seems logical that some kind of direct brain interface tech (for which there are already some very early stage things) will have been developed by them.
It’s very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg.
I don’t want it mom
That’s always annoyed me too. Same with holographic computer screens that allow people on the other side to see what you’re doing. Only way it’d work is if there was a way to limit the view to the person using the device.
And holographic keyboards that appear on an otherwise blank desk. They’d better have really strong tactile feedback or not only would you be poking the hard desk all day, you have to stare at the keyboard the entire time.
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100 years from now? All technology will be wearable or implanted, screens won’t exist anymore for personal devices but data will be either projected or beamed directly. Woeln’t be at all surprised if by then it’s largely organic and implanted at birth.
Getting plugged into the matrix but literally
Nah, the hologram is just the TV representation of what’s playing in the user’s brain via neural implant. They don’t show the part with the direct-to-brain 5 minute unskippable ad though…
In movies and shows they’ve become popular because its easy to shoot, it doesn’t block anything or anyone in the scene or need a specific angle. Regular screens are always facing the opposite direction of the person looking at them in the scene.
Disagree. It’s easier to shoot and vfx a little green glowing screen than it is to operate a camera around, light for, and interact with an imaginary hologram that will get crammed in there later. Also cheaper. And faster.
Maybe the content of the display can be encrypted and is only accessible by the wearer in a certain mode
Some times devices in movies have the shape that appear best on the screen… and then the technology evolves so much that we can make them, and we get tablets.
It’s incredible that nobody ever tried to sell a speakerphone that plugs on your shirt.
Shown in what? Movies and series? In those holograms and transparent screens are used because it allows the audience to see what’s happening, trading realism for improved visual story telling.
As for realistic where mobile tech is going, my guess it will be pretty much what we have now, just more compact and foldable.
Eventually advances in AR and brain interfaces might make the “rectangular slabs” be replaced by something more discrete which no longer requires physical inputs. Doubt they’d be called a mobile phone though.
Yes it’s annoying and this is the reason holographic displays like this will probably never be marketed even when the technology is readily available. Probably it will be something more like augmented reality glasses (which I find equally obnoxious) where people just see their own holographic display when they have the glasses on. If we’re talking all the way in 2144 it probably won’t be actual glasses but some kind of contacts or a chip implant or something
