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What direction do you think tech in general will go in 5 years (ignoring AI) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think ar might be a dead dream in its current state, I always thought wed have proper ar glasses by now because I fell for Magic Leaps Marketting, not sure if it'll come anytime soon.

What I do believe is coming is the resurgence of computers through mobile phones. Everyone has a powerful computer in their pockets but isn't able to use them to their full potential. I wouldn't be suprised if android pushed out a proper android desktop experience letting android users get the full linux desktop experience when plugged into a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Phone performance is stronger than the average laptops/netbooks from 10 years age and they run linux fine for everyday use. Feels like a missed opportunity if someone doesn't drop a phone or os that lets you take advantage of modern hardwares capability. They could advertise it to families, mo more buying a pc for school, just get them hardware for their existing device, it can already do everything. Schools could use lapdocks, or tabletdocks, that could force school parental controls on devices while at school and still let them use it for their education while in class.

(obviously not everyone has a phone but that frees up resources for the kids that dont, if the kids that do can use cheaper docks with their exisitnt hardware)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think generally speaking, we've been in a computer tech boom for decades, driven by the growth of computers going back to the 80s. The internet and smartphones just grew out of that.

Unfortunately I think we're running out of new stuff to compute and newer technologies seem to be a bit week on the "problem being solved" end of things. Most likely what we've come to think of as tech will take a back seat to technologies with more room to grow, I'm guessing biotech in particular will be the next big thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No - the last two decades have shown that just because you can't invent new stuff to solve, you can throw hardware at solving existing problems less efficiently. We'll continue to get more and more horsepower just so we can run js.node garbage instead of letting software devs actually make things well.