I donβt think much will change in 5 years that is not AI.
Everything is focused on AI right now. So just more powerful hardware that is geared towards running ai is all I think that will happen.
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We'll pay more for less in terms of software, and we'll pay more for more in terms of hardware, but nearly everybody would happily buy less. For example, the cheapest phones will be $1k+ but with unused bells and whistles, and there will be a subscription paywall to use Google maps.
We'll have less privacy and security. Our devices will be used to spy on us even more than now.
PlayStation 6 will come out. The next Xbox will have a really fucking stupid name. Call of Duty will be a 250GB game.
It will become more feasible to implement battery tech in your home. Generators will give way to a big battery for power outages. Areas with variable power rates will see people supplement their home power with battery during the day and charge them back up at night. EV adoption will continue to rise. Self driving tech will not change in a meaningful way. Fusion power will be commercially implemented, but barely break even, which is fine because that's how new tech takes early steps to optimize.
China will be far and away ahead of the US in terms of infrastructure, daily consumer tech, and overall happiness. The US will pretend otherwise and launch a targeted propaganda campaign to keep its people too dumb and busy to notice how badly they're getting fucked. But even worse than now, though.
Healthcare tech will expand. But not in the US. Not for the working class, anyway. Measles outbreaks will come in waves. Flu and a new covid strain will be devastating within 18 months. Polio will pop back up like measles currently is. Maybe TB too. Mental health will continue to get stigmatized if not fully ignored.
Physical media will be basically gone. Disc drives will as rare as actual audio CDs are in everyday life.
Lab grown meat will be more affordable, and it will bring a culture war with it.
I could see apple maps and google colluding, both dropping paywalls same year
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Think companies will track us in our homes using wifi and well just have to accept it, like they track our actions on websites, where we click and look
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idk physical drives have gotten real cheap and plentiful, but I do trust the cloud more than myself and thats always getting cheaper
Maybe in the US but rest of the world has access to budget Chinese smartphones .
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Restrictive OSs and stuff will become the new normal, essentially stripping us of our freedom, more things will become 1st Party only and moving your data will be even harder than ever, essentially becoming cultural houses, basically what apple has already done
linux is getting a push due to windows becoming more and more abusive with how they force you to use a certain ui filled with ads and ai bs
Big tech will try and create a cartel to make open source less usable. Google is already pushing Manifest V3 to make development of browsers extensions more difficult, Microsoft could try and use TPM to only allow running "certified" software, and that could be the end of OpenSource as we know it
Its really easy to be honest, you just have to slowly take away everything and give them choices, and they will be so occupied with discussing what they want to choose, they will not even notice how we slowly strangle them
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I think it will keep following the cycles of "Make small gadget larger ---> Make larger gadget smaller ---> Make small gadget larger again ..." and "Turn several gadgets into one ---> Turn one gadget into several ---> Turn several gadgets into one again ..." to make sure you have to replace your gadgets for new gadgets at regular intervals. They probably will find some new annoying feature to add to all your appliances once everything from your phone to your kitchen sink has a touchscreen and a WIFI connection.
if you have one device they could just sell you infinite subs to upgrade it, instead of hardware you rent hardware over your high speed internet, offloading resources, like video editors where rendering takes place in the cloud with that feature built in being served by google not a third party
Lots of technology has reached a good-enough plateau, so I think we'll start to see some left-field ideas. I'm just going to say realistic robot pets.
I could see that happening forsure, maybe virtual pets, desktop buddies making a comeback could be cool
trigger happy police drones - I Can't Believe It's Not A Real Cop (TM)
Probably contains "AI", though.
It just makes sense to me to make android phones the all in 1, now your phone is actually also your computer, much better than trying to sell chromebooks and make that work
This is already a thing
Samsung DeX was the first big one but there are a bunch of competing ones that do similar things now.
its just android reskinned sadly, not actually using linux desktop, sure its decent for multitasking but its just android apps reframed still
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Im forsure delusional with schools tho theyll prob sell them chromebooks forever