Not being able to sell a new thousand dollar chunk of plastic and metal to everyone every three years would truly be disastrous. Let’s hope they get it sorted out!
Most people dont utilize the full functionality of a $1000 phone compared to a phone with a $400 msrp or less. People often complain about "needing" a new $1000 phone every two years.
@@fixerupperer the companies selling them love the idea that you “need” a new one. The fact that people might eventually realize they’re wasting money is the stuff of nightmares. Gotta keep consuming to buy some dude’s new yacht!
Where you getting every 3 years?😂😂😂 You mean when we individually decide to upgrade 3 years and 3 generations of smartphones later? Lol I’m pretty sure IPhone realease 2-3 a year… They release the main one, then a smaller or bigger version, and then another one with Some special letters at the end. Like the iPhone 5c They’re really good at it😂
@@fixerupperer - it's a fashion accessory. I've been a hardcore geek since the late 80s, I was bullied for my passion. The internet is ours, we built it and everybody else has turned it into a hellhole of bigotry and idiocy. I hope they go back to playing snake.
It still terrifies me having an AI on all the time under control of a huge multinational corporation with zero oversight listening in on my conversations and recording my privacy. I turn off the digital assistant features for that reason, and Alexa is never allowed in my house. I just don’t trust these companies.
even if these are trustworthy. All the benefits came with alle possible negatives and the one big dataleak wich will terrify most internet users. Mark my words it will happen! :D I also say that AI will bomb any trust in any news someday if too much too good fakes pop up. Yep i could also be wrong.
@@be.prepared.to.do.that. people at those levels seem awfully interested in controlling others. once one rich enough and everything normal becomes boring, the next way to get kicks is to wield power over others.
Interesting my comment was deleted. Only portrait the dark side left or right the positive. Happend often in recent future because of some buzzwords I use?? I always try to be friendly and make jokes. The world (I generalize) want the positives. But be sure the negatives are coming too. Be prepared... Yes maybe despite saying that I will too be surprised 😜 I don't want to write all again. Good work censure algorithm! Yep I know you only do what is programmed 👍
@@Nordlicht05 haha yep. all these sites are definitely using AI censorship already. Google has been using algorithms to hide search results for years. story doesn't fit the narrative? hidden. words criticize the wrong people or group? hidden. etc. etc.
who the hell wants to watch a photo/video WHILE seeing what's on the other side of the screen, WHILE ALSO everyone can see your screen from even more angles?
society is doomed. You see how people are walking around like Zombies with Smartphones you wait until they reach the next invention with these technology. Scary
@Chill671e-u2t People used to do the same with newspapers. People are zombies by default. Also what does this have to do with OP's comment on how dumb transparent screens are?
SciFi makes hand held devices transparent for story telling reasons. It widens possible camera angles for a given shot of an actor while including what they are looking at. I have strong doubts that transparent screens will ever be the mainstream save for use in smart glasses.
@macberry4048, exactly what I was going to say. Who needs screens when you have hologram screens that work perfectly in any light or environment somehow 😂
@@juicewilliss Go ahead, open your bank account in a holographic display, or open up your passwords in a way that keeps exposed to everyone Or that chat with your S.O. having a few private photos You see the issue?
Three years ago, I signed up as a beta tester for a major company's super-advanced smart phone, which was indeed the transparent phone prophesied in so many TV shows. I got it out of the box, and was really wowed by it for several hours. Then I put it down to go get something to eat. I haven't been able to find it since....
My mom worked for Motorola in the 60's, processing microchips. One day, on her lunch break, she and her coworkers asked their manager exactly what they were making and why? He asked them to imagine being able to carry your phone with you anywhere in the world and calling anyone you want at any time. The response was "pfft" and lots of laughter. Move forward to early 80's. My mom purchased our first home desktop and when affordable our cellular phones.
@@Bville-E everything u do is on the internet your bday your name your birth recoreds where u shop where u work your car loan everything i worked for the census guess what all the data is on the internet who u marry how many kids your ideas your bank your life is a data number now all u are is just a binary code everytime u log on so next u text ur girlfriend wife kids video chat for work or even just watch youtube and chill welcome to the manchine
@RKingis Exactly. People like it for the miniature tablet reasons. The guy with the laser pen phone thinks he's a genius but can't figure why people use the mini tablet (aka "phone"). Which is to text, watch social media videos, and maybe games...all things the laser phone can't do (nearly as well).
...and they are always on, always listening to us, reporting everything we do - where we are, can't be turned off, are too fragile and ridiculously expensive to purchase the phone and the services. The all powerful DATA requirements are there for the corporate use that we don't need.
I got mine at metro PCS... it wasnt on the floor though, I had to ask, and they def were trying to push the smart phone but they did have them . @eszby
to be fair, texting on a smart phone is ass, too. No matter what mechanism you use--canned responses, word prediction/autocomplete, "swype" (which I find to be the least accurate), tapping the letters individually, or speech to text--they are all frustrating in their own ways just like T9 Word and the classic pressing numbers several times to get a letter and waiting until the cursor moves. Tapping + word prediction is certainly more efficient than T9 word, but it's still annoying and makes me resent touchscreens every time I have to put up with it. I think the best typing experience I ever had on a phone was with the LG extravert, one of those sliding flip phones with the little keyboard full of keys that are way too small for anyone who isn't a mouse, but it had tactile feedback and that counts for a lot.
We've hit the stage where the smartphone becomes an appliance. The look of a refrigerator, microwave, toaster has varied over the years but for the past 40 years they've essentially looked and run the same. That doesn't mean smartphones are going away, just that it's kinda silly to release a new model every year (technically appliance makers like samsung and LG do the same, but even then the year-to-year changes are minimal).
Same with personal computers - the evolution has slowed down. Only thing that forces a new hardware now on a computer is that some new software requires things like new encryption hardware, but that's hardly any major evolution. It's the hardware industry that drives that newer operating systems aren't supported on older hardware. But even though it's claimed by Microsoft that you need TPM2.0 and a certain generation of processor you can install Windows 11 on older hardware by doing a few circumventions, so go figure why there's a new hardware generation every year. The software industry also want new hardware where the old software don't work so people are forced to upgrade. (interdependency situation) Only the bleeding edge computing needs the latest hardware, but most of them uses specialized solutions under Linux. After all you as a consumer is the product and milk cow for the industry.
Smartphones evolved towards their current form factor pretty rapidly. They were initially constrained by technological limits and consumer adoption. And they won't be going anywhere until the need for that form factor is obsolete. Just like fridges, toasters, remote controls, and other appliances.
It's not silly to release a new model every year. What's silly is people's baseless belief that just because a company releases a new model implies they're expecting everyone to buy it. Those new models are simply available for purchase by anyone in the market for a phone. Just because a company releases new models every year doesn't mean they're demanding their customers buy them every year.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou However the software upgrades for many smartphones ends after a short time, like a year or two and some apps related to security and banking require latest upgrades to work.
I started studying computer science in Germany in 2006. In one of our projects we created a futuristic prototype how someone can order food with an app on their phone... The average computer science student could already see very well where things were going. The pushback was extreme though. Everyone was like "But no one would want to use this. You actually want to talk with the person on the checkout"
I have talked to much younger people that were amazed that I don't carry a cell phone. There were questions like "How do you find your way?", "What if you run out of gas or have a flat?". It made me glad that I never had one when I was younger.
I never understood that, either. I went through school (pre-K through 12th Grade) and graduated without caring about getting a phone in any shape or form. The only reason I got one a few years back was because my parents told me to get one, just for me to stay on touch with them and I'm in my mid-20's. Even with that, I was STILL hesitant on getting one of these stupid things.
Here in Norway there is a trend among young people to have two phones, a smart and a dumb. The dumb is for when socialising and after school activates.
Yeah at least with a phone it's fairly obvious if someone is recording a video of you or something. That was partly responsible for Google Glass' failure.
I would love to see more privacy laws put in place. I imagine these designs would be much less dystopian if companies had to take everyone’s privacy into consideration. I hate cameras and always on cameras are hella creepy - like a stalker - always there, always watching.
And microphones. Do this experiment. Talk out loud about something you have no interest in, so there is no search history. The example given by a guy doing this several years ago was dog toys, because he is a cat person. He talked about dog toys for about 10 minutes and then started surfing. His browser started showing dog toy advertisements.
Thing is, I 100% don't want a lapel pin that sits there and observes my surroundings and tells me to eat a candy bar. I also don't want to have to talk to my phone to get it to do stuff. Can you imagine how irritating being in a room full of people trying to text with those stupid things would be?
@@abcdeshole eh there's cool niche uses. the technological development itself is also cool if of itself. I'm excited about smart glasses for example... because I think it'd be awesome to be able to watch or read things in different situations or in more comfort, 0% because I want to replace my phone. generally with innovation people try to fulfil current uses because it's easier to market people on something they already do as opposed to marketing them on entirely new behaviors. Even if someone knows their product won't become a new phone, they're still going to market it that way because it gets more sales.
I hate speaking to my phone to do shit. If I need to look something up I'll pull up Brave browser and punch it in myself. I've actually used Siri less than a dozen times over 8 years of having a smartphone. I would completely lose my sanity if the Vision pro's became the "Everyone uses this thing 24/7 in public and in private strapped to their faces" future.
@@abcdeshole It's a gimmicky new thing and some people tend to be easily impressed by stuff like that, the kind of people who have thousands of dollars worth of funko pops
We don't have the same phones. Technology has moved on in great leaps since 2010. A phone is several magnitudes more powerful today than 14 years ago. Even an old iPhone 8 is far more powerful than its 2010 counterpart. Same goes for Android, like the Galaxy s10. Remember, while the outside may look the same, the inside is vastly different. My Galaxy S10 and iPhone 8 have more CPU cores than my old 2006 desktop and 2011 laptop combined. My smartphones individual processing power far exceeds both those old computers. To the point where I can edit/process 4K/60 video on my smartphones(VN Video and Kinemaster apps). My high end 2011 laptop with a pentium 2 core, could barely handle 1080/50(pal).. 😅
@@gooseknack OK, efficiency has indeed improved, that allowed phones to catch up with PCs. But it was not new architecture, it was just being able to catch up to already existing tech with smaller devices. The architecture of today's tech is by no means _vastly_ different. It's a little bit improved. 64bit processors were introduced in 2010, that's what defines the architecture, the memory, the performance. We have nothing better today, we are on the exact same architecture. We have somewhat better efficiency, and we can now have more cores in consumer products, something we only had in servers back then, but the architecture is the same. Phones and tablets did improve after 2010, that is true, but only up to roughly 2015 in a meaningful way. There is nothing out there that would justify replacing my 2015 iPad pro, for example. But when it comes to computers, I stand firmly at 2010. We had computers just as powerful as today in 2010. My _actual_ high-end MacBook Pro from 2010 still runs perfect today. You could theoretically do 4K video editing in 2010, you just needed parallel processing capabilities, such as a high-end video card. (It would have been pointless because we did not have 4k monitors yet.) In 2014 you could already do 4k gaming, you only needed 2-way SLI for that and we had 4k monitors and TVs by then. My 2014 water-cooled gaming rig runs at 5.5GHz, there is nothing you can buy today to improve on that. You can have more cores, but aside from video editing, almost nothing can take advantage of it (maybe "multi-core synthetic performance benchmarks" too - these are the two things tech pundits use today to test new processors.) You still have brand new video cards you can buy today at the same price you bought a GTX1060 back then, which have roughly the same performance as a GTX1060 used to have. RTX and DLSS are actually software features, the only reason they are implemented in hardware is to give you an incentive to buy. The same reason why support for SLI was discontinued. Because otherwise you would have none. We do roughly the same things with roughly the same gear, which costs roughly the same. But _BEFORE 2010,_ it was not true! A 5 year old computer in 2010 was a doorstop at best (with 32bit you could only address 4GB of memory, good old times). A 10 year old computer (that was the 16 bit era! 24bit data bus was the norm) had only value for retro computing enthusiasts. A 15 year old computer (an Amiga? A classic Mac? A 386 PC?) was vintage, and belonged in a museum. They had clock rates like 14Mhz, 25MHz, or 33MHz... Computers in 2010 were capable of 5Ghz already, they were hundreds of times faster. And today, a 14 year old computer from 2010 has the same architecture, same memory, same clock speeds, runs the same software and you can use it to do the same things as you would use a new one for. Apple and Microsoft had to implement artificial safeguards to prevent that you install their newest OS on old hardware! Tricks like that were absolutely pointless before 2010, because new software just did not run on old hardware.
@gooseknack well no duh, but functionally they are more-or-less the same. Yes, I'm aware I can do low grade bioinformatics on my laptop now, but the more powerful things that can be done are generally niche when compared to general use.
@@DevinDavidson18 I mean, I used to make my 3D animations on a dell pc from 2012, and when I bought my current computer, everything became much easier to run, as the viewport now never lags and raytraced renders take a matter of seconds, not minutes. You are right in a way, though, because I could still theoretically do everything i do now on my old computer, it's just much easier.
The barrier for devices like the Vision Pro is that you can only wear a relatively heavy thing on your head/face for so long. It would have to get to the point where it is as comfortable as just wearing glasses. Taking a helmet on and off your head is not more convenient than pulling a phone out of your pocket or glancing at your smart watch.
I don't think the Vision Pro is aiming for long term use. It seems like it would be good enough to watch a movie on, or if comfortable enough to use as a portable workspace
Everyone can point out flaws. The real key that differentiate the winner and losers is: Winners say: "We need this problem to be solved to have a winning product. Plan/invest and manage risk accordingly." Losers go: "This idea will never work because of this flaw. Don't bother with it."
The obvious solution is to have AI assisted smartphones running AR & VR peripherals. People have been using blocks in our pockets wired to our face for decades. It has the added benefit of allowing more customization which drives competition development.
And the first mobile phones were heavy and lasted ten minutes on battery. Heck, the first phones were wood and steel boxes bolted to the wall and you had to tell a live operator which other giant wood box to physically connect you to. I hardly see why we wouldn't be able to make them more glasses- or goggle-like in several years. There are companies putting OLEDs on contact lenses now too.
There were glasses meant to hook up to the phone like a smartwatch but they faild for not being durable enough and having piss poor sound quality and hurt to listen to or so well done in ear blocking with good sound that they were dangerous to use in the fields of where the sports versions were meant like Cycling, Running/Walking, and other outdoor city events where needing hearing is very important, then worst of all they had only a super limited battery life almost as bad as the early true cellphones. Also, most claimed to be waterproof or water resistant to 100 meters and were not even close to this and died after the one rain incident. Problem was like the Original Razor, they were made to be too light to where most of the heavy duty unbreakable sports frames for specific adventure sports or cycling were in weight and not really carrying about durability.
The current problem with VR is that is very isolating. It makes the person oblivious to their physical surroundings. It also makes it difficult for people in physical proximity to get the attention of someone with a VR headset, make interactions difficult. I feel like it makes spontaneous interaction with people next to impossible. It might also make intimate interaction impossible (meaning get to know a person for who they actually are and being able to accept them). This already seems to be a problem with phones and earphone already but adding the visual aspect could make it far worse. I seems to me that this isolation is the root cause of the rise of mental illness in our society today. Chronic isolation, leading to chronic anxiety, leading to depression.
And what’s wild to me is the idea that all we need to do is create a space for interaction within the tech. We’re socializing with extra steps. During lockdown, and even since because my parents live 500 miles away, playing a round of mini-golf on the headset is pretty cool interaction. But my parents have designated areas of the house for them to play a board game together without bumping into each other.
How could you define VR without "oblivious to your surroundings" being a neccesary part of it? Otherwise, it's augmented reality (AR). As for getting the user's attention. You just need a little button, not on the worn equipment, that someone can push, or a phone app, etcetera that sends a little bird flying down to gently whisper in their virtual ear that they are needed back on Earth 1. You could have automatic bird notifications for weather alerts, or whatever.
no the root cause is capitalism. the only issue with vr/the internet is that its used as a *replacement* for in person socialization, instead of a *supplement* . which for a social species like humans, is BAD. no amount of online socialization can replace our biological need for in person socialization. this isolation is just another symptom of capitalism. also the way cities used to be built made spontaneous interactions very common, thanks to high mixed density, pedestrian friendly city centers, and good public transportation. but capitalism came in after ww1 and destroys the density for freeways and suburbs, and took out the public transportation and pedestrian friendly roads to turn into streets and parking for cars. this was so bad in north america you can look up before and after photos of tons of small and large cities being destroyed for the car. the effects of capitalism are so broad its hard to think of something that it doesnt affect negatively
Billion dollar idea: the Actual Assistant. For the low low price of minimum wage, you can pay someone to follow you around carrying your phone. Whenever you need, you can ask them questions, use them to schedule tasks, and of course, make calls. And you never have to hold or use a phone again.
I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the smart phone world. Yes, I am old. But my entire career was in software development, and after I retired I was determined to only check my email once a day. No more checking voice messages every hour. Now I also check my phone once a day. And my friends and family hate me for it. On the other hand, I manage to read through a couple of books a week. 😁
I finally got one when 3g went away. I only use it for phone calls and texts (and sometimes pictures). Even this huge samsung is too small for me. No way I'm straining my eyes for this POS. If it can't wait until I get home and get on a proper computer, it's not that important. Of course I could always get reading glasses, but I'm not going to do that until absolutely necessary. I'm perfectly happy not wearing glasses atm.
I use my phone like a land line. I don't take it to the bathroom, shop, table, bedroom, or yard. I stick in my pocket when I drive somewhere. I don't use it to watch YT or E-mail. I have a powerful desktop and a wall-mounted 65" monitor with keyboard and mouse by my recliner. Smartphones are to small to use comfortably, smart glasses may be the ticket.
@@JimmyMon666 You can go to your phone's settings and increase text size. It affects all text in all apps. Settings -> Display -> Font size and style. There's also a "Screen zoom" setting under the font size setting, which affects UI elements of apps.
After working at a pawn shop that had a reality TV show filmed there, people definitely act differently when there is a camera pointed at them. This new tech would take that type of filming to a whole new and weird level.
Funny, today I was driving and a car in front had what looked like a camera sticking up above it, like where the car radio aerial is. I was so paranoid, and definitely being ultra careful to be on my best behaviour, especially as I had a work uniform on. I'm thinking now of maybe getting a dash cam to face the rear to see if it'll reduce aggression from drivers behind me.
I currently have an iPhone 13 handed down to me from my dad, and I have no intentions of getting a 15. If/when I need a new phone I'll be getting an older and smaller smartphone or just run a dumbphone. I'm starting to find large smartphones a hassle to use and kinda want something smaller.
@@davidkymdell452 I just moved from the Galaxy S8 active to the S23fe and it is more or less the same except it has 5G and yet it somehow does not feel the same OS wise and I am having trouble adjusting. Plus I am charging more often for less use it seems.
I own a Galaxy S7 and a Galaxy A32. The S7 ran like a top for years, but became obsolete when services switched from 4G to 5G. It still serves admirably as an Mp3 player and works perfectly for recording from TH-cam to cassettes. The A32 has been through all manner of crap and keeps on chugging. When it eventually dies, I'm going back to a plain flip phone and mp3 player. Fun fact, my mom basically bullied me into getting a smartphone because having an LG Revere flip phone in the 2010s was "weird".
What I would really like to see is a screen that you can actually use in the sunlight. That's an innovation I could get behind. Also standard universal language translation would be incredibly helpful. 👍
iPhones 13 and up come with a 2000 nits screen. It’s bright enough to see everything in sunlight, though admittedly it would be ideal if the screen could shine through my polarized sunglasses. I believe the brightest that phone screens will ever get is 2800 nits; I cannot imagine a situation where more nits would even be desired, not to mention necessary.
@@andreirachko the problem with just blasting the nits is that it heats up the screen...while it's in the sun... after a few minutes the screen has to turn itself down because it's too hot.
I think there's something about the form and function of current smart phones that hits a sweet spot for...well, human beings. Over the last few decades we've invented countless devices, and we tend to keep coming back to a form factor that fits easily in our hands and pockets. Cell phones, handheld video games, Walkmen/mp3 players, calculators, voice recorders, cameras...there are lots of tasks that we just seem to prefer doing on something roughly the size and shape of a smartphone, and more often than not we like controlling them using our fingers, even when voice control is an option.
Goes back way further than that too. Look up the size of the clay record keeping tablets used in Uruk and Ur in ancient Mesopotamia. They're basically the same size albeit thicker.
I agree with ya except on one thing. Gaming on a phone is garbage! No thanks. Give me a TV or a gaming PC with a mouse and keyboard or other specialized controllers like a joystick for a flight sim. Foldable phones for the win is the next logical form factor. Wouldn't it be awesome if your phone was a scroll that you could unroll to whatever size you needed at the time? Or just about phone sized now, and thicker, but could fold out like old school maps? Again if you wanted the size of a phone it works. If you want double you unfold it once and it becomes half the size of a tablet. Then unfold a third time and it becomes larger then a tabet? This is the only logical form factor till we get a small little lens that showcases the world or whatever we are watching. Basically a HUD or augmented reality. Then combine it with something like a way to type on our forearms. Navigate or click with our eyes.
I think you just explained the cause of our phone addiction. We need to use our hands! That's how we learn and create. We should go back to making things with our hands: craft, woodwork, bread, etc to counter balance our phone addiction. It's in our hands!
@dianapennepacker6854 You basically just described a Scroll from the web animation RWBY. Basically a hard light screen display between two switch-like controllers that functions almost exactly like a smartphone. It starts off about the size of a flip phone and you pull on the two sides to expand it out to the size of a small tablet. Folding phones are a bit niche, but having a tensioned flexible plastic screen that you can extend and contract like a tape measurer from a tube like handle could create a larger screen while also shrinking the device size to something the size of roll of half-dollar coins, and just have the display sized to fit what screen is exposed, so you could open it up a little bit to check a phone call, or open it up half way to have a regular smartphone display, or open it up fully to have a wide screen display that could function as an entire multi-screen work station. Obviously that might necessitate the tube being a touch longer than a smartphone and having controller periphials to make best use of it but it's certainly a method of giving you more screen space on a smaller package
The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. It may have been the first _popular_ smartphone, but blackberries and PalmOS phones pre-dated it. I had a PalmOS phone before the Treo came out (yes, I also had a couple Treos). There were 3rd party apps for them, but loading new apps was a bit of a hassle.
I had a "smartphone" even before the iPhone hit the market. It was Windows Mobile, with REAL GPS and could do everything modern smartphones do. It was basically a PDA with cellular capability and a GPS built in. The interface just wasn't as slick as they are now but that really didn't matter.
Talking about smartphones but failing to mention Palm OS devices, programmable calculators, pocket computers and laptops is a major oversight. The two greatest features of smartphones are their portability and their ability to combine all our previous devices into one thing. In college I carried a walkman, a minidisk player/recorder, a Mavica digital camera, an Iomega Zip Drive and a Handspring Visor PDA (the Palm Pilot competitor) and nobody thought it was all that odd. I could see the Palm type devices becoming the thing of the future because they were working hard to get as much function into one thing. They had a cell phone add-on, thousands of apps, a camera add-on, memory expansions, and maybe even an MP3 player in the works. Apple had its failed Newton device and everyone wants to quietly act like it never happened. This video talks about interacting with the devices differently but that's not what is needed for change. I think the next big thing that'll come to smartphones is finding what it is that they currently can't do and that's where the change will come from.
If they make smart glasses that can correct vision better than traditional lens glasses that might be something I'd actually invest in. Some people have problems in their eyes that just a lens can't fix, but a display maybe could. Don't see why you couldn't add a bit of AR to that while you're at it. And a zoom functionality? And a rewind would be really useful too.
Omg - zoom, replay! How’bout identify that bird, or Im lost, where am I? Or -put me in Italy, or Put me on the moon. It could find my keys, know the nutritional value of my dinner plate.
Perhaps not X-ray, since some people might get offended when radiated... but IR and UV vision would have their uses. Not to mention macro- and zoom-vision far beyond cababilities ot the human eye. That "dash cam" feature would help to solve muggings, accidents etc. LiDAR similar to iPhone 12...15 Pro/Pro Max, just with much more advanced SW, would be nice. And they'd offer superior vision correction to traditional glasses, too. Including just the right mount of automatic darkening. Using the optimal or preferred color. Mirror-finish or not, you choose. While having about the same weight as traditional sun glasses... Something similar to HUD (Head-up display) in todays cars would be an obvious feature. Just more sophisticated and versatile, in 3D colour etc. Sometimes Pizzeria's menu, sometimes a map. Or just simple arrow guiding you to the right floor and room, making sure you wont be late from the meeting. High quality Movie Theater screen (HDR, of course) would be cool, as long as it would be automatically disabled for anyone driving any kind of vehicle. Privacy is an obvious problem. And distractions --> accidents etc. Propably never before seen amount of obnoxious, forced advertisement, too. More malicious and twisted than ever before, targeted specifically to make a single human being generate absolutely maximum cashflow. Without a single pause, 24/7/365, for the rest of the marks life. For example, vast AI Farms owned by Coca-Cola, Nike, Huawei, Pfizer, CCP etc. would easily learn to bypass any open Source Add-Block SW + punish you for trying it. And nobody can prevent them. Well, at least not level 4 basic citizens.
When I started wearing glasses, back in the 90’s I didn’t realise how glasses worked (I was a late teen when i started) I had a manual focus camera and would take photos onto film, with and without my glasses and a week or so later when i got the pictures back almost every picture was out of focus, because my glasses were fighting with the cameras focusing. I still don’t need glasses within about a foot
A very interesting topic. As someone who owns smart phone, tablet, laptop, PC, etc., and relies on the technology for my job in particular, I think that the smart phone and its evil cousin social media, have had an extremely deleterious effect on society in general. It's too easy to be rude when hiding behind the anonymity of a computer; it's too easy to be a troll and annoy people; it's too easy to be able to spout off with remarks guaranteed to offend, and to share those remarks with millions of people with the click of a button. On a more personal level, how many of us have been at social gatherings where everyone is more interested in looking at his or her phone than in interacting with actual humans? This is not healthy by any objective measure.
I think it also helps you to determine who to keep in your friend circle. I have made a point of building a real, live network of friends and associates who, like me, don't engage with social media. We have actual interests that exist in the real world and don't overlap being online. It's refreshing to hold conversations with people who do interesting things and have interests that exist in reality as opposed to online.
I have an acquaintance who works in IT. he does ALL of his work on his PC, preferably on Linux, doesn't own a laptop as far as I am aware and while he owns a smartphone, he has barely any aps on it. Smartphones have always been time wasting devices first and foremost, status symbols second, and utilities a distant third. Laptops are not for doing work, but for making work portable. Smartphones are a hype. That hype is coming to an end. The big companies are trying to start a new hype, that being VR. That is the core of the issue.
Never really thought about the whole "camera on every person" scenario that much before, but when you mentioned that people act differently in front of a camera it reminded me very much of Autism Masking. As I've learned how to understand what masking is and how to be a more authentic person to myself and loved ones, I've realized just how exhausting it is to mask and how much I dislike being someone I'm not, which for me results in the opposite effect of wanting to socialize because I don't want to have to seem "acceptable" in as many categories as possible every time I interact with someone. My professional mask isn't as exhausting as it was before, and I think thats because I tend to keep my professional life distant from my personal life, but also that professional mask does just fine by being positive, kind, and upbeat, at least when I can be. This experience makes me think that overall, a camera on every person scenario will most likely result in massive social shifts as we try to figure out how to live like this as a species, or a mass amount of rejection to this current format until a discreet format becomes more available. The discreet option, however, is pretty close to the idea of just cybernetics, which tech already has made a few breakthroughs in contact lenses being able to act similar to these AR options. At some point, someone could just pop in contacts and now their eyes are cameras, and that will very much impact the way we as a species interact. The future is kinda concerning, but idk, maybe this will push us to be less shitty to each other over time, and more empathetic, when you know that the world itself is possibly watching. Likewise, the amount of paranoia this will cause will probably require an entire field of therapy appearing to help cope.
Agree wholeheartedly Spectre, and it’s one of the main reasons I spend almost all of my non professional life alone. Knowing that you are under surveillance means that whoever you would be absent the watching/recording takes a back seat to whatever your brain decides is socially viable. It’s exhausting
@@skyemecham9392 these dudes are talking about being forced to act inauthentically, that kind of implies the way they normally act is socially unacceptable
It's extremely bold to assume that I want a screen in my glasses. Could you imagine the ads they could throw in your face while you work or drive? That's dangerous.
0:50 The biggest difference between the 5s and the 14 is that it's much harder to pick the more modern version up without dropping it because you're gingerly holding it by the edges, scared of touching pixels you didn't want to touch. I hated losing that handy dead border :(
same, the "all the front of the device is interactable" (some did the sides as well!) concept is very dumb outside of a slide deck. Every time I grab someone's phone, there's a back-and-forth where I touch something and give it back so they can open what they were showing me again. It's not a user-centered design, it's a marketing-centered design.
I've always used Samsungs but man when they went to curved glass that made things even worse. I hated it. The phone I'm holding still has curved glass but I think the next Flagship is completely flat. That curved glass means you can't really even hold it by the sides without touching the screen.
The idea of transparent displays always seemed impractical to me for two main reasons. 1 - Depending on the opacity of the items on the display, having a transparent screen means you would have (for lack of a better term) visual interferance. Unless you have something of a solid color behind the display, it could be difficut to see anything. 2 - Privacy. I don't think I would want to be able to see what everyone is scrolling through, or letting everyone see what I'm looking at. I was also thinking the other day about the idea of implantible tech. With the current model of planned obsolescence, I don't think I would want to have to get surgery, even minor surgery every time I need to update tech. I am excited to see where things go from here because most of the stuff that I grew up viewing as the tech of the future just doesn't make sense to me anymore.
I don't think transparency is as important as flexibility. Imagine a phone the size of a Sharpie that had its screen rolled up around itself. You unscroll the screen to x size to use per normal, then roll it back up for storage.
planned obsolescence is exactly that, planned. It's not that we can't do stuff that last 10-20 years. We have the tech for it. The industry just don't make it because they don't need to or want to. Actually, in the SW world there's the concept of SaaS. You can't buy it anymore, but for only 9.99/month you can subscribe to it. And phones last exactly 2 years. You can make implants that last 20 years easy.
You're right. Transparent screens are like the Dick Tracy phone watch, or flying cars -- tech that sounds cool, but which we realize is a spectacularly bad idea once it becomes feasible. We've had the technology to make see through books and notepads for decades after all, and no one has even suggested that it was an idea that should be tried.
@@bdgackle I find it odd that you dis the Dick Tracy watch while ignoring the Apple Watch. The core issue with flying cars is the pilot's licensing which just keeps getting more expensive and out of reach. Classic sci-fi novels discussing flying cars had pilot's license and aerodynamics being taught in high school while ground transportation was relegated to middle school aged kids. As the current Green Agenda highlights, the Elite want to keep the sky free for themselves, not for anyone else. Carbon emissions doesn't matter for Taylor Swift or John Kerry, just backyard lawnmowers and cow farts.
Even if the implants were perfect, from my understanding, the body eventually rejects them. Even medical implants that bind with bone etc. The body is more like "fine F you, if we can't get rid of you, I'll just invelope you" It's still not very happy to have anything not of your DNA to be in it.
The credit for this device ought to go to the writers of Star Trek the Next Generation. The Star Fleet badge is a communicator that translates languages and allows for instant communication among the crew members.
It's actually a bad communicator and the video quality is aweful. I totally understand why it's not possible to use your hand as an monitor, but so should they. As long as I can buy a tile that can do all of this and much more I never would even consider to buy such a thing.
Exactly. Despite all the bells and whistles on all of the producs you mentioned as well as the smartphone, every single one of them are still in use for the original function that they were created for.
Only advantage I can think of with a transparent screen is using it for AR purposes. Other than that it´s way worse than an ordinary screen. Maybe one that can switch the transparent feature on and off?
Foldables aren't THAT dumb, More biggerer=more betterer, for some. Tablet functionality, fits inside pocket...it solves a problem if you really, really want more screen room. My mom likes her Z Fold4, since it lets you fit a normal amount of content at once while using an easy to read larger text scaling, for her old people eyeballs.
Gimmick products are companies shooting their shot. If it works out they'll be THE company for it. I don't mind them but I'm not the type to fomo for stuff anymore.
@@MichaelBeale Yes if you want screen size greater than say 7 inches ... then yes but you would have to give up on thickness of the phone when folded ..
Still have mine. Wish the video recording was better, the bitrate makes it kind of useless. I guess it was meant for email but they should have included a high quality mode. It's now sitting in a box with several movies on it I encoded in 256k 144p. 🤓🤨
I had one back in the day, I was the coolest kid in town - until the ‘6’ stopped working, limiting the number of people I could call. Sent it back, got a new one, and that would switch off when someone called. So in summary: cool phone, not the most practical.
In my teenage years and early 20s I was hooked on devices. Building computers, troubleshooting problems with friends/family devices, always sitting at my PC, etc. Now, into my 30s, I'm pushing away from devices more and more. Hours daily I'll just leave my phone somewhere and forget about it as I go about my day outside or in the dining room with a board game. I know lots of others are doing the same. I'm sure these new gadgets will have their audience, but I don't doubt there will be a larger and larger divide between the gadget users and the folks like myself that are just burned out and sick of it all.
Good for you. People walk around with their nose in a device, totally oblivious to the mugger behind them or the car they are about to walk in front of. I was into computers back when they took up the room. I didn't really start hating it until smart phones. At least I live near Amish and Mennonites, they've managed to live without it and remind me I can too.
@@clearsky4003 I agree about the people and environment for the most part but when I use it it's 90% shorter phone calls, texts only when I want to save info like an address and the camera was handy whe I had a fender bender. I'm not on it much at all even out of Amish country.
I don't know if it is just me, but in today's day and age of more and more ads being forced into every single app, device, and unused space, I personally like that when I put the phone in my pocket, I can escape the attritional onslaught of advertisement. As much as AR glasses and what not sound cool, you know that it would just be another way to assault every waking moment with more ads so that you could never have another moment to be alone with your thoughts or the beauty of the unmonetized environment.
And you _know_ it is going to happen because advertising.... Fortunately a highly productive fix for the problem can be found using an age-old remedy.. a 22 oz. framing hmmer.
Look at how few likes you got although it is 2 months later, but still. People are already transhuman. They don't have empathy, they don't want to connect with humans or Mother Earth. Everyone who uses this toxic weapon constantly isn't just harming themselves & children, but everyone around them & all living things. I have proof for everything. Please don't believe the lies, please wake up. I beg you to start learning.
I've been debating going back to a dumbphone. I've been watching this trend of young people going back to dumbphones and I really like the idea of not being spied on by every company ever and not being tempted to whip out your phone every 12 seconds
It occurred to me while watching this that I might finally be aging out of some of these major tech advancements. My phone provides music in the car, navigation, access to information and something to take 10,334,432 photos of my cats. I just can't imagine adopting something new technology now that I'm over 50. Totally fine with others being excited, but I think I'm generally satisfied with where I'm at.
I'm not yet 40. And I think I'm good too. But I've always been behind the times. I didn't have a mobile computer until 2007. I didn't have a smartphone until 2014. I didn't have a large flat screen WiFi TV until the beginning of the pandemic. And the laptop and the TV were gifts! If left up to my own devices it probably would have been longer.
@@georgejones3526 I am over 71 and have had several smartphones. I also recently dumped Windoze and both my laptops run on Ubuntu, my partner is fine with Windows 11 and I, occasionally, use that for windows only software such a configurations for my New Solar Power setup, this is the second one I have built. I am now in the process of configuring the internet comms for the setup.I like learning new stuff, it keeps you young in the brain.
I'm 22, a media student of all things meaning i work with the newest of technologies every day and absolutley nerd out over stuff like this but god forbid i will never upgrade from my 2012 iphone, i love that thing so much and already had to buy one used because the old ones battery exploaded the screen off of the old one
we went from 10 hours of charge to get 30 minutes of call time to 30 minutes of charge to get 10 hours of call time. But the old phone had a special feature: it was so heavy that noone could keep it up more than 3 minutes allowing for 10 calls.
Thank you for mentioning the concerns around self-censorship and there always being a camera around. Unfortunately I don't think it'll make a difference, but I'll feel better about it if people are willing to recognize the full scope of consequences this kind of tech will bring on us.
Lol yeah if people really cared about being recordered there wouldn't be so many videos of people acting outrageously. Also omg police body cam footage, it seems almost fake how stupid/entitled some of the people are.😅
Actually modern human speak more freely compare to the era before smartphone. So i’m not sure what is that "self censorship" in western countries, because i see more and more horrible speech freely lurking in twitter without any consequences. For Asia countries, we’re self censorship for the entire life and you don’t see us complain.
@@rewer Sorry, but that shows how "whipped" you are, that you've surrendered free speech to the government! You should be ashamed of yourself (especially the Chinese, who should have gotten rid of Bling-Bling and his ilk by now, but cowardly allow that dictator and his inflated party of yes-men to dominate them without once saying "No! Not acceptable!")
The very concept of privacy is likely to change. If you recall even passports were once considered to violate anonymity. Today we have people willingly sharing their lives on social media.
The hardware of the cell phone is complete. After that, is the improvements on the software (like apps) for the maxed out improvements of the cell phone. No one is going to want to wear bulky goggles. And the pen lazer is very stupid. The best thing about smartphones is watching videos and texting (because no one calls anyone anymore). Something that has a slight chance could be the glasses if the video was really good and you found a way you could text just as quickly (with reliability). It's like trying to reinvent the shovel. It's already as good as it can be. So you need let that one go, stop focusing on what's already invented, go beyond that. And just find something totally new to invent, if that is your great desire.
I know what it might be! Imagine having a phone for voice calls only. Almost zero privacy concerns! It doesn't need replacing often so it is cost-effective. You don't take it with you when you leave home, so it's not constantly interrupting you. When you're not there to answer it, people can just leave a voice message!
What, like it used to be about 20-25 years ago. No one struggled to keep in touch with each other in those days. When I was a teenager back in the 80's I would have to leave the house and walk to a public phone box if I wanted to have a private call with my girlfriend.
I remember talking to my LAN line supplier several years ago and was asking about metered long distance calling since most of my friends were local. She said that it was a bit expensive: $5 per 100 minutes. I explained to her that in the 1960s, long-distance calls were like $1 or $2 a MINUTE! Everyone had ways of cutting the costs down.
Seriously? If you don't need the "Smart" features of a phone you can already keep your phone for ten years. And, right now, without new technology, you can ALREADY leave your phone at home. Just in case you weren't aware, your phone has an "off" button!
@@qt3dot14ish A few years ago, I was "actually" talking to one of the girls in our office and she was complaining that her iPhone wasn't working quite right. I said to turn it off and on again. She responded with "what if I miss a call while it's off". She told me she had never turned her phone off.
That active translator is a great feature, and I've personally long liked the idea of a (under my direct control only) always on camera. Anyone who rides a motorcycle on the street has probably run into the "I want a camera but don't want the hassle and object sticking out" debate.
In HS in like... 2004, a friend had a translator very similar, but it was a single device and language. So this part has actually been around for a while.
Yeah, bicycles and pedestrians too, since in most cases if something happens, a car driver isn't hurt and they can tell their story, while you're unconscious and unlikely to remember what happened when you do regain consciousness. Definitely a good use case.
Having ridden a motorcycle for the last 30 years, yeah... I remember that conversation back about a year before the first go-pro's came out. It was short and relatively quick. I get an abbreviated/abridged variant anymore with any new bike or mod's at the shop... The first one was "How do we get this camera on the bike without it catching wind and getting whipped off?" followed directly with "How do I make sure it's on?" and "Is it going to retain video in a crash? Those get pretty bad when you're cut off with nowhere to go." Now, it's more like, "Yeah, the custom cowling on front and include the shock-absorbing and damper for the camera-mount right there, Bill. OF COURSE, I want the aftermarket usb-multi-charge port! I'm not wrenching on Suzie to swap it over and back! Do I still look that stupid???" Fortnine's latest video featured one of his sponsor's products, a camera so small you can magnetically clip it to just about anything and get the "action shot" of it floating through a full-face helmet. It can attach to the power source in a POCKET for a body-camera that catches nothing on your chest for ride-along vid's... On it's own, the camera's barely as big as a thumb... AND that particular video was actually ABOUT Japan's latest secretive developments in HUD tech', from a sh*tty helmet device with a jittery display that made Ryan nauseous with the blinker light vibrating in view... to the next-gen competition with "Goggles" to reduce jitter and enhance visual quality... My big worry (besides price) is WHO gets to pick what I NEED to see in an HUD??? I sure as hell hope I get some contextual menu and settings control, or I'll just stick to a dedicated lid like always. The full-face development was a sh*t-show for us in the mountains until they got ventilation sorted out. NOTHING in the world compares to the shear panic of hitting a cold-spot in the mountains with a brand new helmet only to be BLINDLY TESTING SAID HELMET at speed... BAM! It's similar to cruising along at 80 mph into a white blanket across your face out of nowhere. ;o)
While translating tools make our lives easier, i lament that fewer people will see the value of learning other languages. Learning and speaking other languages has not only practical value but it is true enrichment for your brain. Through it you understand the other culture better, but also you'll understand your own language better, and it is great brain training.
What's perhaps more wild is that 3/10 people don't own a smart phone. Curious what's being counted as people. Like, toddlers wouldn't have a smart phone probably.
Yeah that’s true although there is an element of unpredictability these days due to the loads of lackluster parenting that’s really felt like the worst it’s been.
The bit that I don’t like about having my phone is that I’m contactable at every single second of my life 24/7 365 days at the whim of the caller. I’ve moved away from answering my phone instantly. I’ll call them back and if it’s important enough they’ll leave a TEXT message. You couldn’t pay me to listen to a voicemail. Friends and family get annoyed I’m hard to get ahold of but it’s only because they’ve become so conditioned to having someone answer *their* phone call when *they* want. Back in the day you’d have to call the house phone and if you didn’t want to talk, either you didn’t pick it up or all your family member or housemate had to say was oh yeah sorry they arnt here, can I take a message? No? Ok call back later. And no one would get butt hurt over you not answering the phone. My point is I hate having to be available for anyone, at any time, when they randomly choose. If they gave me warning they were calling things would be different but they don’t so here we are. Me watching the phone ring out
With you there. I’m up against a wall where modern tech just overwhelms me. If I go for a walk on the beach, I don’t want to be reachable or even in touch. Privacy isn’t only about your info, it’s also about being alone when you want to be. Same way I want to play an instrument, even struggle to learn how, and not just get a computer to do a better but artificial job without me learning my craft. Knowing without learning is soulless
I have setup "do not disturbe" on my phone, at certain times and on certain days only a very few people are excluded, anybody else can't get hold of me. Also, I have a work phone what is switched off on my holidays and weekends; I don't get paid extra.
The idea that we want to be rid of our phones reminds me of Microsoft's disastrous marketing of their first phone. The commercial showed a number of situations where people were too absorbed in their phones to notice what was going on around them. If I recall correctly the tag line was something like "it is time for a phone to save us from our phones". As soon as I saw it I thought "no Microsoft, people _love_ spending time on their phones".
Actually, many of us have better things to do than spend time on our phones and consider them an interruption to higher priority things we are doing. Useful when we need them and that's it.
@@stevegrieb6596 Likewise. But we can put down any brand of phone and tell it to not bother us. I would bet that you don't go out and buy the latest and greatest phone every year. We were not Microsoft's target market.
I would like to see smartphones not breaking when dropped, charging sockets that don't break and the phone suitably designed so it is easier to hold and the wireless charger still works. Interested in glasses that act like screens too. It would make it easier to work anywhere. I wouldn't be walking around with them on though. Disconnecting sometimes is good!
Honestly from a software perspective theres a lot that can be done to optimize screen interaction and reduce thumb strain. ideally there would be no reason for us to extend our thumbs or use a second hand to reach the top of the screen. Thats not a current design philosophy though
OK, I'm a Luddite. But I bought an oyster-style mobile in 2009 & only this Sept 23 graduated to a smartphone. Why so late? Well just watching everyone staring into their hands as they walk along or sit in a bus etc I found most disturbing. Are we being turned into mindless brings?
As someone who has worn glasses for most of their life, I have wanted smart glasses ever since seeing Google Glass. I was legitimately kinda bummed when Google stopped developing Glass.
When I go out in a situation where there are going to be a lot of people around, I sometimes ditch the earbuds and take my chunky headphones with me. I do that because I don't want to talk with random strangers, and nothing keeps people from bothering you like a visible pair of headphones. I think our phones operate in a similar fashion a lot of the time. Humans are crammed together like we've never really been and having phones to look at can give us the necessary distance required to breathe. I remember reading an article a couple years ago where the author was complaining that someone had headphones on and she couldn't talk to him in line at the coffee shop, and how isolated this made her feel, and I was thinking 'Lady, that's a you problem. He doesn't want to talk to you. This is just keeping you from imposing on him. It's not his job to make you happy.' People keep looking for things that remove that barrier, but just like me ditching the practically invisible earbuds in favor of a pair of headphones, I think that barrier isn't a bug, it's a feature.
I'd agree, I stick headphones in sometimes at stores when I don't want to have a conversation. I carry them at all times even if I'm not planning on using them for anything.
Sadly, over usage of noise cancelling earbuds or headphones will cause long term ear and brain issues. Such as over stimulation in quiet areas for some time afterwards nausea in extreme cases and enhanced tinnitus. Among other things, do your own research, I am not your mother....lol But good luck to you none the less if you continue to over use those!!!! :)
@@Defensive_WoundsI’ve used noise canceling ear buds and headphones for years and have never gone through any of that. Those side effects are extremely uncommon. Do your own research, I’m not your dad.
@@Defensive_Wounds I have no idea where you pulled out that bullshit, but I would love a research paper if you indeed have a link. Noise-cancelling is literally just a device recording noise and then generating opposite sound waves to that noise, so it cancels it out. It literally has no direct effect on the brain unless I guess you're in a pure noise vacuum aka you're not listening to anything which you would just take them off at that point because staying in complete silence is uncomfortable for us humans, also it would really just affect the ears I guess by maybe making them more sensitive, but again I feel like that would only work if you're in complete silence and that's unhealthy... you can just turn off noise-canceling if you're not listening to music while having them on...
@@Defensive_Wounds In a crowded, noisy household, whatever longterm effects there might be are supplanted by the short term effects of me not strangling the people I live with. And that's not a joke or hyperbole. Before I got mine, I was starting to experience some serious rage issues. Out in public, I don't turn the headphones on. That kind of lack of awareness in public is dangerous. They're just there to signal to people that I'm not available for random conversation.
I feel like VR headsets are a very 1990s idea, it really makes me think of the Virtual Boy. The issue with digital assistants that are voice-activated, is that most people don't want to interact with their phone via voice anymore... they prefer the privacy of texting. I really don't think anything short of a brain-computer interface of some kind could obsolete the smartphone.
I forget where I saw it, but there's a device that can understand words that you say under your breath, based on vibrations in your skull rather than sound moving through the air. That could be ideal for this kind of tech.
This is how I feel. The perception of privacy (not actual privacy, people happily give away all their private information every time they even look at a smartphone) is absolutely vital to the success of a smartphone replacement. That's why headsets are a more obvious choice over voice-activated assistants. The main problem with headsets is how to control them. - Controllers are TERRIBLE (outside of private recreation). They're an additional cost and on top of that they're an additional thing to carry around. This can be mitigated by wearable controllers, but that would almost certainly bring us to my next point... - Gestures are BAD (sorry Apple) -> way too visible and unworkable in a public space. Imagine trying to use gesture controls at a coffee shop. On the sidewalk. On a crowded metro train. Not. Gonna. Happen. Gestures are a pretty good way to control a (private recreation) VR headset device, but they are not gonna work at all for a smartphone replacement. + *Eye tracking* is how this problem can be resolved. It's more private than using your fingers (as our eyes can be completely covered with this tech) and it requires less effort (you move your eyes all the time). "Clicking" can be done either by focusing for a certain amount of time or blinking twice while focusing/blinking for a little longer than normal/something like that. Moving your eyes around a screen to select things is actually way more intuitive than any other method of doing so -- it's literally what you do all the time, then you have to annoyingly use some kind of other thing to do the actual selecting (an arm, a remote, a controller, a button, etc). Way better and way easier than anything else. Add on ear pieces and you have a device that is -completely- private. Way, way more private than a smartphone and it requires less effort to use (in fact you can literally always have it on). These devices have cameras on the outside and show you your surroundings, so it is entirely possible to go about your day as normal with one on. Not only is it possible in fact, this is the ideal use-case for such a device. The last problem is comfort. For all that smartphones have grown in screen size recently, they've actually gotten quite a bit lighter over the years. This was the key for wireless phones as well -- lighter meant more comfortable to use. Palm sized (which was achieved from the get-go with smartphones) also meant more comfortable to use. A successful headset needs to be as light as possible and no larger than a pair of goggles. There are devices that come remarkably close to this, so it's not off the table at all. Frankly smartphones nowadays are really similar in computation power, camera size & quality requirements, and screen resolution requirements to what such a device would realistically need and they aren't far off everything else right now (that's why google cardboard is able to exist after all). A problem that isn't really a problem is aesthetic. Once the above issues are resolved this one can be iterated until we find a design that people will settle on. The first smartphones were pretty ugly and all looked pretty different. Smartphones today are sleek and well-designed from form factor to UI, and they all look about the same. That's probably what you'd expect from this kind of system. The secret real last problem is marketing. The first smartphone had killer marketing thanks to Apple and that made a big difference. The first device that goes all-in on eye tracking controls that isn't prohibitively expensive and isn't too heavy will be the one that has the best opportunity to take off, so long as it is marketed well.
I do think that's one way that Apple was pretty forward thinking with their Vision Pro; much of the interaction isn't with voice commands (or even visible gestures), but with eye tracking and optical gestures, if you will. I think a well executed variant of that in AR glasses would be quite appealing to a lot of people.
@@winterfollowsspring8637 Own a smartphone* but really any electronic from the past 10 years. Welcome to the dystopian world of ultrasonic cross device tracking.
Honestly I think these devices are a threat, the only reason I bought a smartphone a couple years ago was because I felt forced into doing so by things like 2 factor authentication, being able to pay for a car parking space, banks requiring you to have a smartphone for "security" There are all manner of things requiring the use of a smartphone these days that you just don't notice when you actually have one. The tech industry and government has shown over and over they can't be trusted with your data which is why I do not like being coerced into using these devices. Rant Over.
Agree. I went back to a flip phone and only use a smart phone to watch boring videos at night to fall asleep. Using a phone for 2 factor authentication is ridiculous since people bring their phones everywhere and get them lost/stolen. I was able to just side load the authenticator app on an Android emulator so I can do it right there on my laptop LOL.
Yeah I don't think I'll be getting a Vision Pro, and I have entertained the idea of going back to a dumbphone. I still like the idea of doing that. I've been using iPods for my music to have more control over what I consume, no subscription fees, no content disappearing from my library.
You've hit the nail on the head as far as my own opinion goes. The fact that we're more or less 'forced' to use a smartphone is why I hate them. I don't leave home a lot ...I'm a senior citizen ...I have an up to date desktop computer AND an up to date laptop I share with my husband, AND an iPad as well. I do NOT also need a smartphone ...except because I have to have one to receive verification codes, etc. So I've had to get one ...which I also share with my husband, which can cause problems if we both use the same phone number for the same company. We recently changed banks because the old bank suddenly insisted that online banking wasn't 'secure' any more, unless it was done via an app on a smartphone. !!! A smartphone that can be lost, stolen, dropped in the toilet, etc. I store NO sensitive content on any of my portable devices, including bank details. THAT is security. My desktop computer is tethered to my desk, at the address where I live. I'm not anti-internet at all. What I'm anti is the requirement that every single human being has to have their entire life tied to a smartphone now, or they are left out of the loop. This has happened so fast, and it's not good.
I think the tactile aspect of the smartphone is being kinda forgotten in this vid, like the immediate feedback is crisp, we love touching things, our brains evolved to touch and manipulate things with our hands, we got smart as a species in a big way thanks to hand to eye coordination, its an object of desire you can touch any time you want, and that is reaally ingrained in our dna tbh so maybe yeah for the foreseeable future i do believe we´ve arrived at a sort of final form
We have arrived in the "final form" for a lot of things besides phones. And some of those, for decades. But I guess when it comes to "advanced tech", people have a hard time accepting there's actually an end.
This is such a good point! So often, when people comment on something being "nice," it has to do with the tactile experience of it, regardless of whether it's clothes, flatware, cars, smartphones, keyboards, or anything else. Like, sure, the visual aesthetics can play an important role, but we tend to like things that are pleasing to touch and manipulate in our hands.
I know my opinion is quite unpopular regarding this, but I hate most of the touch aspect of smartphones/tablets. I never felt like I really liked it. Perhaps at first I did like it, because it was innovative and cool. Afterwards I saw myself back on a computer with a separate screen and keyboard/mouse. I don't really see how you can beat that. I always disliked the lack of precision + using my screen as a keyboard. It's a bit like the Wii controller. At first it's cool because it's innovative and cool. Afterwards I switched back to a xbox/ps controller, which got the things done without the hassle of having to move. I never understood how people could prefer smartphones/tablets over computers. Smatphones and tablets feel like extremely dumb and nerfed computers. The fact that I can only have one window open at the time has always given me a sense of claustrophobia. In the end I think it's about getting the things you want done fast, efficiently and with comfort, which is why I never saw the touch aspect as anything but an innovative and fun aspect with very little application.
@@destroyerofworlds2239 I agree with you. I feel computers are much more comfortable. Still, the point remains. We have reached the final form of phones. I'm pretty sure even in 50 years from now, things will have changed very little.
My folks had bag phones. They were fairly heavy but could talk a whole hour without needing to plug it into the car. The range to cell towers was so good by the time smaller phones came out, it was a difficult decision to give it up.
The bag phones usually had a 3W transmitter and large (real) antennas while the smaller phones (flip, candy bar, smartphones) had 0.5W and integrated antennas. Bag phones could pick up distant cell towers much easier. 😊
My dad had TWO! He had a personal one for a couple years alongside the one he was issued so he could be contacted anytime via a page, then going to his truck to make a call. Up until a few years ago he still had one. I doubt he got rid of it. He also had one of those brick ass Motorola's too lol
You also had to sign up like long distance. If you left your home network you had to pay roaming charges. The home network was stupidly small for some people. My grandparents couldn’t go more than about 30-50 miles from their home without going into roaming.
I think we’re at a point where we are trying to have ethics catch up to technology. This is why we are having so many societal debates regarding the next leap in technology. There probably won’t be a huge tech leap in terms of communication devices for a long time while; it’s reaching its plateau. We’ll see ethics and advancements in other areas like energy and manufacturing take the spot light for the next few generations
A lot has happened technologically in the past 20 years, and we’re just now grappling with the issues of privacy, addiction, personal freedom, community, and disinformation. The world has many “experiments” running right now in societies across the globe. We can see how social media affects our children across cultures, how authoritarian regimes use technology, and how linking previously isolated parts of the world is changing entire regions. I personally think we should be trying to ensure that our advancements don’t erode equity, human rights, and societal function instead of focusing on how we are going to accelerate our already break-neck pace.
Like confronting a whole society and pointing out that Flappy Bird and cat videos now could mean your great grandchildren starve to death in the ruins of a flooded coastal city?
Im 42, work in tech & have a tech business, using a galaxy s10e, and im going back to a very basic phone. Honestly, i cant stand texting and social media. All i need is decent photo/video and telephone capabilities.
The term smartphone was coined back in the 90s, I had my first smartphone in 2002 with the XDA from O2... this is a very Apple-centric recollection of events.
I had to look up timeline for a second there because I swear people act like/forget to mention that Apple didn't come out with the first smartphone. Yupp, yupp, I know it was a huge milestone, that's not my point though.
@@weird-guy Even talking about AR is Apple-centric, since Microsoft have had the HoloLens out for years. They're just extremely expensive and niche products right now, much like VR headsets in generally still are. That'll change, and I don't doubt Apple will be there, making their chunk of profit from it.
The smartphone has reached its final form, but I can't see anything replacing it - because the form factor is pretty close to ideal. You can try and replace it with holograms or VR or neural implants, but that is less convenient tech to use, so people will generally avoid it.
@@captainthunderbolt7541 AR/VR glasses seems to be the next logical step. If you think that they have cameras because of which people won't like them, then you're wrong. People get over stuff pretty fast. 15 years ago giving up as much privacy as people have right now would be unheard of. I assure you.. people won't care about glasses with cameras in the future. Rn they are kinda bulky but standalone glasses with even meta quest 2 or 3's capabilities being the size of Xreal glasses would be 100% be the next step.
@@MobikSaysStuff It's not going to take off, mostly due to social reasons. Walking around wearing that stuff makes you look like an oddball, and it paints a bit of a target on you, since people don't like to be filmed in public. Some people will for sure adopt that tech, but not on a scale that will threaten the smartphone.
@@captainthunderbolt7541 I already mentioned why it won't make you an oddball, especially when they are the size of normal Ray-Bans. Are people with glasses oddballs to you? And no. I assure you, people won't care about cameras the same way they don't care about people filming on streets anymore or giving their data to tiktok or Facebook. People generally don't care after a certain amount of time has passed. They get used to it. I don't mean to disrespect you but "It won't take off" are the same type if arguments old-timers make whenever new tech advances are made and entered into the consumer market. Not that I'm calling you a boomer. PS. Quest 2 Sold over 20 million Units. For context that's more than Both Xbox series X and S combined. For tech you claim won't take off, it's going pretty great even though it is in its early adoption phase.
In the early 1980s we bought a Vector Graphic computer for my husband’s business. I had to learn BASIC so I could debug the software we bought since nothing was available to play as written. About the same time, my brother who was working on a master’s degree in computer science got an Apple IIe. You need this context to understand how hard it was to get my head around the concept of cyberspace in William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” which came out around the same time. At 73, this background combined with a lifelong love for science fiction keeps me looking ahead to where technology could go in the future. Thanks for a fascinating episode. Note: I’m visually “limited” so not all that interested in what happens on the screen but being able to listen to audio content through my phone is a life changer.
Well, depending on how much you used the phone, that could be why your vision is deteriorating. It's a WEAPON. It has harmed many people & it is a spying device.
Amazing that you for sharing that - I think a lot of people lurk in the comments while the Upload plays often just consuming the audio as the video is way up there offscreen. At least that's what I often do, find myself down here in the FINE PRINT as I call it, searching for more meaning and context or opinions on whatever obscure content the normies have constructed to subside our boredom for another minute at least, hehe. I'm studying this fine print down here as WAAAAY up high at the top there (which i only know usually due to the audio, which i think was my point, hmm) the Upload plays out, often at above realtime playback speeds, such as it's Author Editor has not intended it be depicted while consumed. Just another creation by our YouGlube celebratty has (usually) tried to Frankenstien into someloosely conceptually 'forgiving' playlist on it's "Channel". :)
Why have they missed the big benefit of glasses, 3D. You can see a scene in true 3D or you can see someone in front of you in 3D. The next big thing in phones will be 3D cameras.
I feel the need to mention the smart glasses would also be very useful for those with limited physical abilities. It can provide a higher degree of personal independence, especially as AI capabilities increase. Imagine a person with Parkinsons disease who can summon their AI nurse without ever speaking or getting out of bed.
the next evolution to replace the smartphones will be neuralink. human trials are starting. Why worry about a cellphone in your pocket or in your hands that you can lose or damage, when it can be hardwired into your brain? xD Aside from all the possible nefarious and dystopian scenarios that extra processing bio-soldered directly to your brain can bring, the possibilities are pretty cool if the establishment doesnt ultimately intend to hive-mind control us xD
It doesn't matter what you feel. You can't do anything with those "smart glasses". Any attempts to get something like that ended up with them bein banned or not allowed in many spaces.
Smart phones are actually required for my job, because we have an authenticator app that gives us codes for logins. We literally cannot work at this company without one. It's a racket.
I remember watching Power Rangers as a kid and I was awed by their watches, specifically the ability to talk with it. Look at the capabilities of current smartwatches, it's outrageous!
Right before the smart phone, the palm pilot was the high-tech personal organizer and rolodex of contacts. Ipod's touch wheel and easy playlist porting made them stand out from the other mp3 players. iPhone put those together with even more. You're absolutely right about the first 100 years and last 10 years in phone development, I never thought about it that way.
@@karlwithak. _Tactile_ means involving touch, _tactical_ means involving tactics. If someone is overly touchy and huggy, that's tactile. If the person they're touching is well-proportioned, then that's tactical ;)
USB to HDMI adapters are like 4 dollars. or you can stream to your TV and get a Bluetooth keyboard. or, and this is going to sound crazy, don't get a crappy flip phone that's going to cut the display ribbon, use a smart phone and type on that because you should be able to text on a phone with a full alphabet after 2003 was left in the past
Being able to have a verbal conversation over the phone with automatic language translation is going to be huge. Sure, there will be a delay with each translation, but being able to speak directly with a business associate across two languages will be fantastic.
I've mastered 6 languages during my youth and uni time. The only language I've ever needed for (international) business has been English. I enjoy speaking them for culture's sake but they're not necessary to do business
@@daarom3472 Same experience here (except the 6 languages part lol). Also related to that, I live in a tourist town, and I find it incredibly endearing when foreign tourist try to speak the local language. I always switch to English for their convenience of course, but perhaps after a small delay : ) And no, I don't want AI becoming a middle man in my everyday human interactions.
under display cameras too. being able to look in someones eyes while video chatting still eludes us in 2023. everyone is all just still looking to the side
I have a feeling this may take a bit longer to catch on in the business world than you think. Consider the ramifications of a potential mistranslation for critical (possibly life-or-death, even if indirectly [ordering hospital supplies, for example]) exchanges or high-value transactions. Consider the potential legal fallout due to those circumstances, or even the damage inflicted to a potential exchange by an offensive or misleading mistranslation. Consider that some people may speak in some manner that an auto-translator, however refined, may have difficulty with (volume, accent, vernacular) - or even the potential for a split-second connection error to completely skew the translation. Consider that self-driving cars still can't be trusted to distinguish between a person and a palm tree, and that Google translate still puts out goofy results today, a decade after release. I have a feeling that most companies will be hesitant to embrace auto-translators until the technology is quite mature, due to the potential (if not likely) speed-bumps and real problems that using it would actually create along the way.
Imagine if AR glasses replaced smartphones overnight - everyone staring straight ahead with a glazed expression instead of down at their phone. It's stuff of nightmares. I still use my Motorola Razr V3 - you can still get new batteries for them. I like to daydream and don't want to be a zombie like that
i don’t imagine it would be over night. took forever for the internet to become useful and practical. i’m sure when we get the smallest and most practical ‘spatial computers’ they’ll finally kill off the smart phone
I agree, the smartphone was popular because it solved a bunch of big issues. From now on it's just a matter of "how far can we push it" instead of solving a problem. You need to know when to stop
LOL... Immediately my mind went to the crowded streets of NYC, all those people staring straight ahead totally locked in! OVERNIGHT!!! Imagine being the Foreigner (who didn't get the memo) visiting the states for the Very first time arriving on the night just before, then the look on their faces when they wake up the next morning! "Whoaaa...wtf, wait... what... where...Ohhh God!!!!🥺😲😱
It's so good to sit with your thoughts, rather than always being glued to a screen. SmartWstches is where I drew the line. It is far too much and still won't do what we actually want off it.
If smart glasses become socially acceptable, that would spell the end of smartphones in their current form. I could see them becoming smaller, screenless, and meant to live in a purse or pocket for the whole day. Computers that travel around with is are here to stay though. For better or for worse.
I'm not the right target for future tech (I still have a flip phone) but I think your end point is right on Joe, we like the distractions they give us. My laptop and tablet would be the ones to confirm this in my case.
I used to be a technophile, had every new device. Now I am luddite and outside of a few spaces avoid tech when ever possible. But I am still curious so I end up here watching Joe
@@Memento_Mori_Morals yes this tech for this use is amazing. For the rest of us our privacy is being sold to power creations like this. Purpose built tech with out the motive of profits to assist people in living their best lives, that is the future I want to see.
I always liked how the flip phone protected its own screen while it was in your pocket or bag, always seemed like a step back to me having the screen exposed all the time on something you carry about
Exactly... and of course it's not like fashion companies started adding smartphone sized pockets to clothes when they arrived, so where do you store the stupid things without trashing them??
@@curiousabout1 Unfortunately most of my pockets fold in half when I sit down, so a smartphone would just go crunch! It's not a major inconvenience, I don't actually have a use case for a smartphone anyway, but I enjoy talking about the lack of innovation in the fashion industry, especially around friends who work in the fashion industry! :D I think Samsung have got flip-phones that fold out into a large screen now, which is far more practical.... not that I'll be buying one...
The only reason the smartphone was such a huge leap in tech is because the aliens who work with the government allowed to us have it. Humans couldn't possibly mess up life with such a low tech device, they said. Humans: Hold my beer.
“Get that camera out of my face” With everything we talk about legislating these days, Why isn’t there any legislation prohibiting people from making devices that violate your privacy by shoving a camera in your face without your permission?
while watching this the first thing i thought of was the "hammer". first we used rocks and sticks. version 2.0 was putting the rock on the stick. the next major contribution (ver 3.0) was making a metal (heavier and less prone to damage) head for the stick and later added a claw to opposite end of the striking end. any other improvement after that was just version 3.X) like plastic or fiber handels, rubber grips, color. etc. Basically, there will be other inventions based on the hammer but hammer 3.X is here to stay.
What I'm interested in is the potential for vision correction/augmentation. As I've had to adapt to progressive bifocals in my 50s, its very clear to me how viewing things at specific distances strains my eyes differently. So a system that shows virtual images at the 'perfect' distance for clarity without strain would be great. If it additionally has the ability to replace what I"d see with a clarified view correcting my vision problems, that would be a game changer for myself and so many people. I wonder if such systems could even be used to provide early correction so issues that pop up as a child grows can be minimized early.
Sounds like you're advocating for a phone company to be the middle man between you and reality. Literally telling you what you're looking at and showing you what THEY want you to see ... Scary stuff.
That's an interesting thought. I stopped wearing contact lenses in my 30s because I had to wear readers for the computer and there was a lot of eyestrain. Something like that would be good. Much reduction in eyestrain for now, but apparently running around outside without a low level nearsightedness (myopia) prescription slows the progression.
I think this points in the right direction. There's so much consumer technology that nobody really cares (as in the 90s, 00s or 10s were people though tech could change the world, we know now that it doesnt), the real interest is in enhancing the body, or regaining health or lifespan, or simply beauty, thats were i'd make tech predictions.
As an old guy, I certainly remember the days before cell phones and even the internet (btw I had one of the first commercial websites in the world). I really dislike having to carry around a phone all the time, and these days I don't. The screens crack, I've had them get wet and fail, losing data, etc. I'm actually opening an r/c car racing business, where kids can have fun together in the real world, as I believe that is missing and needs a 'comeback'. I always thought the glasses would be better than a phone, but nope, and headsets are the last thing I'd want. I think earbuds might be the way forward.
More power to ya man, I think kids need a better link to the real world. It's hard enough getting adults to go outside these days...unless they have kids, in which case parents will happily leave the house if it means someone else has to watch their toddler for an hour. Speaking of getting kids interested: trampoline parks are a huge thing in my area. It would be a good idea to give the older kids something to do and maybe guide them into STEM if they can make their own RC cars. Same for video games--there have been SEVERAL indie games that implement some rudimentary programming interface to run an army of robots. Autonauts is a cute game that does this very well. LEGO has technic for those more hardware-focused kids. Basically, (purchased) RC cars are an expensive hobby to buy into but the parents are more likely to bite if you say STEM followed by random 6 figure salaries.
Its kinda hard to create a shiny new device that no one has ever seen before these days so they stick with the menial upgrades like a single button on the new phone that everyone goes crazy for and shells out $1k+
One thing you didn't mention is smartphones getting thinner. And ultra-foldable. You could have a smartphone that's quite small be then opens up bigger and bigger as you like. Another possibility is real-time image projection giving you the impression that you are talking to your friend right there with you. That'd save a lot of travel time around the world.
The world is getting quite restricted into zones though. The internet is boxing areas away from the rest of the wide world, similar to internet in China. Geolocation restrictions will mean we either keep traveling or have to network and work with people on the same internet node as you.
iPhone 5 was 7.4mm and iPhone 15 is 7.6mm - smart phones are not getting thinner - not in the last 10+ years. We've already reached the limit of screen area to thickness ratio. For rigid body phones like we have now, you cannot physically make the phones any thinner without compromising the structural integrity. Nobody wants a phone which will snap in half when you sit on it.
As much as I love your low-key humorous style, Joe, I think your production crew needs to be called out for their own excellence. The level of sophistication you all are packing seamlessly into your presentations adds to clarity, understanding & enjoyment giving more impact to your insights. Consider this a Kudo to your writers, graphic, production, and post production folks. You’re not just getting older and adding more TH-cam plaques on your set, your really doing a great job… Thanks
what era are you thinking of..? In UK, we only started using touch-tone in the late 80s or early 90s. We started to get GSM / SMS portable chocolate bar sized phones in the mid to late 90s, along with tapeless ansa-fones. (UK never took up pagers like the USA or Eastern markets) Then MMS/email/dial-up on the go from around 2004-05, then the feature phones and smartphones started to be introduced. The rectangular touch-screen pocket computers haven't really changed, as Joe said, since after 2009/10. it's been a fascinating journey.
I grew up with a wall mounted olive green ITT rotary phone in the kitchen. We put a long cord on it so we could use it anywhere in the kitchen or in most of the adjacent living room. We eventually "upgraded" to a GTE cordless with a retractable antenna, but continued to use the old ITT phone because the sound was so much clearer. Plus, you could use the ITT phone during a power outage. ...I'm probably getting old, too.
I saw that in a museum - it wasn’t a phone, it was a speaker + mic, and the only game it played was an ancient version of Snake where a twisty cable had to be uncoiled every 5 calls or so. Must have had a bad battery, it was permanently plugged into the wall
As someone born in '02, I only vaguely remember the world before smartphones. It's surreal to think those born a few years later don't remember it at all.
Apple didn't invest the hardware or many of the other parts of the smartphone like the touchscreen, etc. Those are some of the myths Joe forget to actually check.
Ughhh!!! Also, I've been using computers for 40 years and I'm an audio engineer. I'm used to 3 screens, tons of information in my face and a good interface. Android is great and customisable. Apple is awful. It's AWFUL. People just get "used to it" but it's not intuitive. It's weird people switching to android try to do the weirdest swipes and gestures when the button is a simple click on the screen. I'll never like Apple. I'm forced to use Logic on OSX sometimes and it's not quick or efficient. It's bloated, unintuitive and it doesn't work how you expect, you just get "used to it".
The closest, and pretty much most accurate depiction of a smart phone in Sci-fi is The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, and I've always felt how underrated this concept was in sci-fi, I think this might be attributed to that those novels are more comedic than anything
The _Guide_ isn't anything like a smart phone. It's Wikipedia in a tablet. It doesn't run apps, it doesn't provide communications... it doesn't even have a calculator function. It's a searchable database of crowdsourced information of dubious accuracy.
I like the tech in Dune. Not the new one. It’s like microfish that animates and has all this data stored in thin sheets of plastic. It’s read only. But the information is very nicely displayed and the talking voice is nice to listen to. I’m on about David Lynch’s Dune btw, or the novel.
That’s like the year 150,000. So they keep technology at a distance. That is the law of the universe. Only the twisted Tle’Laxue have found a loophole. It’s the most dystopia vision of a future imaginable on their planet. But their technology changes the universe due to it’s amazing abilities.
I can imagine the SciFi AR contact lenses becoming a thing and have it wirelessly connected with a device in your pocket or something. Honestly I can now understand how older generations felt almost afraid of the new technology that I'm so familiar with. Technological advancement isn't a linear progression its exponential. 😬
I was thinking along the same lines. You also have neuralink. Between the 2 I think the future will be augmented reality with ads where ever you go. Social credit scores could become an issue with that. Imagine having a number that displays over everyone's head that shows how they rank in life. Scary stuff.
I'm surprised you didn't mention foldables here. The most I use my tablet for is reading comic books and the occasional book. Just making these two products one makes sense. I have more space for when I want to watch TH-cam or whatnot then have a decent sized phone when I dont need the extra screen.
I jumped on with the fold 5 about a month ago, and tbh I absolutely love it. The only drawback I've seen so far is that the flexible screen seems to be a bit more fragile (if you poke it too hard with something like the s pen you can kill pixels) so you need to be a bit more careful with it
I want one but tbh it'll always have drawbacks for a while longer. Battery size, weight, glass quality, last years snapdragon etc, camera etc... It's cool but it would have to be really light and battery effecient as a regular phone.
I would have loved to see the way AI assistants are depicted in the movie Her -- it's really fascinating, the way technology is tactile but falls into the background too. Also, it would be interesting to analyze the roles of watches right now. I often leave home without my phone, and having a local AI assistant on your wrist is pretty amazing.
I hate the fact I can't blast on a full size keyboard, and mouse-click away accurately on my smartphone. There's no chance I'll ever use a smartwatch, other than for sports.
@ronellelkayam7257 what if you had AR glasses to see a screen on front of you, and a bracelet/watch on each wrist could read the electrical impulses as you ghost type in front of you
@@rowshambow That wouldn't be a smartwatch, but rather a sensor with no (meaningful) display. Would I carry the sensors and glasses around instead of a smartphone? Only if they're small and light enough, battery lasts long enough, and they offer same viewing quality as a smartphone from 1ft away (smartphone) from face.
I think it's going to be a long while before smartphones fade out. It's a terrific device for checking on information, both personal and general. It's a fantastic portable navigation tool. If you're not into the XL size, it remains very portable and easy to manage. It's STILL needing more battery improvements, though. With lower power consumption screens on the way and more reliable, durable, longer charge capable batteries also coming up, I think the smartphone has a good runway of time left.
Yeah, if there is gonna be a revolution in terms of wearables, it will 100% be about _extending_ the smartphone rather than replacing it. The only real success in this space is the smartwatch after all, and that's basically just a summary view of what you'd see on your phone.
How long ago were knives invented? No one knows, of course. But we still use knives today because they have useful functions. We just have better knives. It's called mature technology, and it exists everywhere.
I see the 'next generation' of smart tech going in two directions - contact lenses, or straight up implants, which will receive a lot more push back and discomfort, but eventually will win out. I'm 43 right now, but I see either option being a reality before I retire.
I think it'll be both. There's plenty of people willing to do implants, but the average person may just want basic features. I imagine it'll be treated like computer hardware. The common, mass produced, basic hardware is relatively cheap, but if you want the best gaming computer with your own storage and hosting server to play with friends, and maybe even a racing rig because you love to race, THAT will break the bank. If you want normal AR features, the lenses are for you... if you want to have infrared vision or, say, a module to expand your mental processing, you pay much more.
I agree with this statement. Just look how much technology advanced over the last 100 years. Now think about how far technology will advance in 100 more years from now. Technological body modification is definitely a possibility, but that is going to open up a can of worms. Just imagine people hacking into other peoples' implants.
Watching this with 5% battery. Yes the end is indeed near.
Wait, new name?
@@stillinfamousi guess the name “codyslab”was unavailable or something
I assumed you'd have an RTG powered phone.😅
RIP battery
I'm at 3%😂
Not being able to sell a new thousand dollar chunk of plastic and metal to everyone every three years would truly be disastrous. Let’s hope they get it sorted out!
Most people dont utilize the full functionality of a $1000 phone compared to a phone with a $400 msrp or less. People often complain about "needing" a new $1000 phone every two years.
@@fixerupperer the companies selling them love the idea that you “need” a new one. The fact that people might eventually realize they’re wasting money is the stuff of nightmares. Gotta keep consuming to buy some dude’s new yacht!
Where you getting every 3 years?😂😂😂
You mean when we individually decide to upgrade 3 years and 3 generations of smartphones later? Lol
I’m pretty sure IPhone realease 2-3 a year…
They release the main one, then a smaller or bigger version, and then another one with Some special letters at the end.
Like the iPhone 5c
They’re really good at it😂
@@fixerupperer - it's a fashion accessory. I've been a hardcore geek since the late 80s, I was bullied for my passion. The internet is ours, we built it and everybody else has turned it into a hellhole of bigotry and idiocy. I hope they go back to playing snake.
@@COD_is_a_sin that’s just roughly the amount of time it takes for me to pay any attention to it haha
It still terrifies me having an AI on all the time under control of a huge multinational corporation with zero oversight listening in on my conversations and recording my privacy. I turn off the digital assistant features for that reason, and Alexa is never allowed in my house.
I just don’t trust these companies.
Not only that, but people actually pay money to be spied on and used as a product. It's madness.
even if these are trustworthy. All the benefits came with alle possible negatives and the one big dataleak wich will terrify most internet users. Mark my words it will happen! :D
I also say that AI will bomb any trust in any news someday if too much too good fakes pop up.
Yep i could also be wrong.
@@be.prepared.to.do.that. people at those levels seem awfully interested in controlling others.
once one rich enough and everything normal becomes boring, the next way to get kicks is to wield power over others.
Interesting my comment was deleted. Only portrait the dark side left or right the positive. Happend often in recent future because of some buzzwords I use?? I always try to be friendly and make jokes.
The world (I generalize) want the positives. But be sure the negatives are coming too. Be prepared... Yes maybe despite saying that I will too be surprised 😜 I don't want to write all again. Good work censure algorithm! Yep I know you only do what is programmed 👍
@@Nordlicht05 haha yep. all these sites are definitely using AI censorship already. Google has been using algorithms to hide search results for years. story doesn't fit the narrative? hidden. words criticize the wrong people or group? hidden. etc. etc.
who the hell wants to watch a photo/video WHILE seeing what's on the other side of the screen, WHILE ALSO everyone can see your screen from even more angles?
society is doomed. You see how people are walking around like Zombies with Smartphones you wait until they reach the next invention with these technology. Scary
@Chill671e-u2t People used to do the same with newspapers. People are zombies by default.
Also what does this have to do with OP's comment on how dumb transparent screens are?
@@Gamefreak924Facts.
@@Chill671e-u2tThats what people said about books and newspapers
SciFi makes hand held devices transparent for story telling reasons. It widens possible camera angles for a given shot of an actor while including what they are looking at. I have strong doubts that transparent screens will ever be the mainstream save for use in smart glasses.
Not to mention how privacy disastrous it'd be to have a transparent screen at all
It seems like these days they don't bother with any type of screen and they just have floating holograms
@macberry4048, exactly what I was going to say. Who needs screens when you have hologram screens that work perfectly in any light or environment somehow 😂
Why would you even want a transparent screen other than AR? You'd be distracted by everything behind it, and your black levels would be zero.
@@juicewilliss Go ahead, open your bank account in a holographic display, or open up your passwords in a way that keeps exposed to everyone
Or that chat with your S.O. having a few private photos
You see the issue?
Three years ago, I signed up as a beta tester for a major company's super-advanced smart phone, which was indeed the transparent phone prophesied in so many TV shows. I got it out of the box, and was really wowed by it for several hours. Then I put it down to go get something to eat. I haven't been able to find it since....
😂
LMAO!
If you had it included with "find my device" app in Windows 11 and not put it on silent mode, you'd have easily found.
LMAO
Chuckle 😂
My mom worked for Motorola in the 60's, processing microchips.
One day, on her lunch break, she and her coworkers asked their manager exactly what they were making and why?
He asked them to imagine being able to carry your phone with you anywhere in the world and calling anyone you want at any time.
The response was "pfft" and lots of laughter. Move forward to early 80's. My mom purchased our first home desktop and when affordable our cellular phones.
part of this videos point was that smartphones have become much much more than that
we said the same about the internet in the 90s look now it owns us
@@kylelawson91 I still use money orders and cashier's checks I don't do online banking I don't even use direct deposit from my job
I was born in 2000. Reading this story feels strangely .. historical. Even though it's definitely not that long ago.
@@Bville-E everything u do is on the internet your bday your name your birth recoreds where u shop where u work your car loan everything i worked for the census guess what all the data is on the internet who u marry how many kids your ideas your bank your life is a data number now all u are is just a binary code everytime u log on so next u text ur girlfriend wife kids video chat for work or even just watch youtube and chill welcome to the manchine
Honestly, we don't have smartphones, we have handheld computers that can also make calls!
@RKingis Exactly. People like it for the miniature tablet reasons. The guy with the laser pen phone thinks he's a genius but can't figure why people use the mini tablet (aka "phone"). Which is to text, watch social media videos, and maybe games...all things the laser phone can't do (nearly as well).
@TGeorge1984 Not to mention with the laser phone, is legally blind people like me, so wouldn't work.
...and they are always on, always listening to us, reporting everything we do - where we are, can't be turned off, are too fragile and ridiculously expensive to purchase the phone and the services. The all powerful DATA requirements are there for the corporate use that we don't need.
switched from an iPhone to a old school flip phone.. no feeds to scroll. just shitty text messaging and phone calls .. life never been better!
I got mine at metro PCS... it wasnt on the floor though, I had to ask, and they def were trying to push the smart phone but they did have them . @eszby
95% of the icons on my phone I have no use for. Research and messaging are all I need.
"I switched to a clam shell for emergencies"
I've done the same thing. I don't even text so I'm not constantly checking my phone for text messages. It's such freedom!
to be fair, texting on a smart phone is ass, too. No matter what mechanism you use--canned responses, word prediction/autocomplete, "swype" (which I find to be the least accurate), tapping the letters individually, or speech to text--they are all frustrating in their own ways just like T9 Word and the classic pressing numbers several times to get a letter and waiting until the cursor moves. Tapping + word prediction is certainly more efficient than T9 word, but it's still annoying and makes me resent touchscreens every time I have to put up with it. I think the best typing experience I ever had on a phone was with the LG extravert, one of those sliding flip phones with the little keyboard full of keys that are way too small for anyone who isn't a mouse, but it had tactile feedback and that counts for a lot.
We've hit the stage where the smartphone becomes an appliance. The look of a refrigerator, microwave, toaster has varied over the years but for the past 40 years they've essentially looked and run the same. That doesn't mean smartphones are going away, just that it's kinda silly to release a new model every year (technically appliance makers like samsung and LG do the same, but even then the year-to-year changes are minimal).
Same with personal computers - the evolution has slowed down.
Only thing that forces a new hardware now on a computer is that some new software requires things like new encryption hardware, but that's hardly any major evolution.
It's the hardware industry that drives that newer operating systems aren't supported on older hardware. But even though it's claimed by Microsoft that you need TPM2.0 and a certain generation of processor you can install Windows 11 on older hardware by doing a few circumventions, so go figure why there's a new hardware generation every year. The software industry also want new hardware where the old software don't work so people are forced to upgrade. (interdependency situation)
Only the bleeding edge computing needs the latest hardware, but most of them uses specialized solutions under Linux.
After all you as a consumer is the product and milk cow for the industry.
Smartphones evolved towards their current form factor pretty rapidly. They were initially constrained by technological limits and consumer adoption.
And they won't be going anywhere until the need for that form factor is obsolete.
Just like fridges, toasters, remote controls, and other appliances.
It's not silly to release a new model every year. What's silly is people's baseless belief that just because a company releases a new model implies they're expecting everyone to buy it. Those new models are simply available for purchase by anyone in the market for a phone. Just because a company releases new models every year doesn't mean they're demanding their customers buy them every year.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou However the software upgrades for many smartphones ends after a short time, like a year or two and some apps related to security and banking require latest upgrades to work.
@@ehsnils Nonsense-it's not that short. I'm still using a 2018 Android, and iPhones last even longer.
I started studying computer science in Germany in 2006. In one of our projects we created a futuristic prototype how someone can order food with an app on their phone... The average computer science student could already see very well where things were going. The pushback was extreme though. Everyone was like "But no one would want to use this. You actually want to talk with the person on the checkout"
I still enjoy everyday interactions
Until you get to the back of the queue.
Idk what changed, I very much enjoy skipping the chat at the checkout.
how IRONIC
I'm an introvert, so I'm just happy to get through the drive through faster and get better deals too
I have talked to much younger people that were amazed that I don't carry a cell phone. There were questions like "How do you find your way?", "What if you run out of gas or have a flat?". It made me glad that I never had one when I was younger.
You should make instructional videos for just that - No one knows what to do without them!
I never understood that, either. I went through school (pre-K through 12th Grade) and graduated without caring about getting a phone in any shape or form.
The only reason I got one a few years back was because my parents told me to get one, just for me to stay on touch with them and I'm in my mid-20's.
Even with that, I was STILL hesitant on getting one of these stupid things.
I actually feel that maybe phones are somehow the preferred design. I maybe wrong but I don't think they're going away anytime soon.
No of course not
Here in Norway there is a trend among young people to have two phones, a smart and a dumb. The dumb is for when socialising and after school activates.
Yeah at least with a phone it's fairly obvious if someone is recording a video of you or something. That was partly responsible for Google Glass' failure.
not going away just stay in your pocket never to be seen again
@@kosmique You will probably get that at some point, but I think further along the way we will go back to pigeons, horns and smoke signals.
I would love to see more privacy laws put in place. I imagine these designs would be much less dystopian if companies had to take everyone’s privacy into consideration. I hate cameras and always on cameras are hella creepy - like a stalker - always there, always watching.
Being watched constantly is not going away.
@@tallbudhayeah especially if we do nothing about it
It's not the company watching. It's the security S.
((laughing)) I have 3 now and just got 4 more.
😎I'M WATCHING YOU😎((LAUGHING))
And microphones. Do this experiment. Talk out loud about something you have no interest in, so there is no search history. The example given by a guy doing this several years ago was dog toys, because he is a cat person. He talked about dog toys for about 10 minutes and then started surfing. His browser started showing dog toy advertisements.
Thing is, I 100% don't want a lapel pin that sits there and observes my surroundings and tells me to eat a candy bar. I also don't want to have to talk to my phone to get it to do stuff. Can you imagine how irritating being in a room full of people trying to text with those stupid things would be?
I have no idea why anybody gets excited about these things (if anyone does).
@@abcdeshole eh there's cool niche uses. the technological development itself is also cool if of itself. I'm excited about smart glasses for example... because I think it'd be awesome to be able to watch or read things in different situations or in more comfort, 0% because I want to replace my phone.
generally with innovation people try to fulfil current uses because it's easier to market people on something they already do as opposed to marketing them on entirely new behaviors. Even if someone knows their product won't become a new phone, they're still going to market it that way because it gets more sales.
I hate speaking to my phone to do shit. If I need to look something up I'll pull up Brave browser and punch it in myself. I've actually used Siri less than a dozen times over 8 years of having a smartphone. I would completely lose my sanity if the Vision pro's became the "Everyone uses this thing 24/7 in public and in private strapped to their faces" future.
@@abcdeshole It's a gimmicky new thing and some people tend to be easily impressed by stuff like that, the kind of people who have thousands of dollars worth of funko pops
Yep you’re not alone. Humane will be a huge flop. These rich people are so out of touch.
Just noticed now? Tech has stopped evolving in around 2010. We have the same phones, same PCs, same tablets, same everything then 14 years ago.
Always room for minor improvements but yeah, in general, I think phones probably peaked in about 2017 and computers peaked in about 2014
We don't have the same phones. Technology has moved on in great leaps since 2010. A phone is several magnitudes more powerful today than 14 years ago. Even an old iPhone 8 is far more powerful than its 2010 counterpart. Same goes for Android, like the Galaxy s10.
Remember, while the outside may look the same, the inside is vastly different. My Galaxy S10 and iPhone 8 have more CPU cores than my old 2006 desktop and 2011 laptop combined. My smartphones individual processing power far exceeds both those old computers. To the point where I can edit/process 4K/60 video on my smartphones(VN Video and Kinemaster apps). My high end 2011 laptop with a pentium 2 core, could barely handle 1080/50(pal).. 😅
@@gooseknack OK, efficiency has indeed improved, that allowed phones to catch up with PCs. But it was not new architecture, it was just being able to catch up to already existing tech with smaller devices. The architecture of today's tech is by no means _vastly_ different. It's a little bit improved. 64bit processors were introduced in 2010, that's what defines the architecture, the memory, the performance. We have nothing better today, we are on the exact same architecture. We have somewhat better efficiency, and we can now have more cores in consumer products, something we only had in servers back then, but the architecture is the same.
Phones and tablets did improve after 2010, that is true, but only up to roughly 2015 in a meaningful way. There is nothing out there that would justify replacing my 2015 iPad pro, for example.
But when it comes to computers, I stand firmly at 2010. We had computers just as powerful as today in 2010. My _actual_ high-end MacBook Pro from 2010 still runs perfect today. You could theoretically do 4K video editing in 2010, you just needed parallel processing capabilities, such as a high-end video card. (It would have been pointless because we did not have 4k monitors yet.) In 2014 you could already do 4k gaming, you only needed 2-way SLI for that and we had 4k monitors and TVs by then.
My 2014 water-cooled gaming rig runs at 5.5GHz, there is nothing you can buy today to improve on that. You can have more cores, but aside from video editing, almost nothing can take advantage of it (maybe "multi-core synthetic performance benchmarks" too - these are the two things tech pundits use today to test new processors.)
You still have brand new video cards you can buy today at the same price you bought a GTX1060 back then, which have roughly the same performance as a GTX1060 used to have. RTX and DLSS are actually software features, the only reason they are implemented in hardware is to give you an incentive to buy. The same reason why support for SLI was discontinued. Because otherwise you would have none.
We do roughly the same things with roughly the same gear, which costs roughly the same. But _BEFORE 2010,_ it was not true! A 5 year old computer in 2010 was a doorstop at best (with 32bit you could only address 4GB of memory, good old times). A 10 year old computer (that was the 16 bit era! 24bit data bus was the norm) had only value for retro computing enthusiasts. A 15 year old computer (an Amiga? A classic Mac? A 386 PC?) was vintage, and belonged in a museum. They had clock rates like 14Mhz, 25MHz, or 33MHz... Computers in 2010 were capable of 5Ghz already, they were hundreds of times faster.
And today, a 14 year old computer from 2010 has the same architecture, same memory, same clock speeds, runs the same software and you can use it to do the same things as you would use a new one for. Apple and Microsoft had to implement artificial safeguards to prevent that you install their newest OS on old hardware! Tricks like that were absolutely pointless before 2010, because new software just did not run on old hardware.
@gooseknack well no duh, but functionally they are more-or-less the same. Yes, I'm aware I can do low grade bioinformatics on my laptop now, but the more powerful things that can be done are generally niche when compared to general use.
@@DevinDavidson18 I mean, I used to make my 3D animations on a dell pc from 2012, and when I bought my current computer, everything became much easier to run, as the viewport now never lags and raytraced renders take a matter of seconds, not minutes. You are right in a way, though, because I could still theoretically do everything i do now on my old computer, it's just much easier.
Great episode Joe.
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The barrier for devices like the Vision Pro is that you can only wear a relatively heavy thing on your head/face for so long. It would have to get to the point where it is as comfortable as just wearing glasses. Taking a helmet on and off your head is not more convenient than pulling a phone out of your pocket or glancing at your smart watch.
I don't think the Vision Pro is aiming for long term use. It seems like it would be good enough to watch a movie on, or if comfortable enough to use as a portable workspace
Everyone can point out flaws. The real key that differentiate the winner and losers is:
Winners say: "We need this problem to be solved to have a winning product. Plan/invest and manage risk accordingly."
Losers go: "This idea will never work because of this flaw. Don't bother with it."
The obvious solution is to have AI assisted smartphones running AR & VR peripherals.
People have been using blocks in our pockets wired to our face for decades.
It has the added benefit of allowing more customization which drives competition development.
And the first mobile phones were heavy and lasted ten minutes on battery. Heck, the first phones were wood and steel boxes bolted to the wall and you had to tell a live operator which other giant wood box to physically connect you to. I hardly see why we wouldn't be able to make them more glasses- or goggle-like in several years. There are companies putting OLEDs on contact lenses now too.
There were glasses meant to hook up to the phone like a smartwatch but they faild for not being durable enough and having piss poor sound quality and hurt to listen to or so well done in ear blocking with good sound that they were dangerous to use in the fields of where the sports versions were meant like Cycling, Running/Walking, and other outdoor city events where needing hearing is very important, then worst of all they had only a super limited battery life almost as bad as the early true cellphones. Also, most claimed to be waterproof or water resistant to 100 meters and were not even close to this and died after the one rain incident. Problem was like the Original Razor, they were made to be too light to where most of the heavy duty unbreakable sports frames for specific adventure sports or cycling were in weight and not really carrying about durability.
The current problem with VR is that is very isolating. It makes the person oblivious to their physical surroundings. It also makes it difficult for people in physical proximity to get the attention of someone with a VR headset, make interactions difficult. I feel like it makes spontaneous interaction with people next to impossible. It might also make intimate interaction impossible (meaning get to know a person for who they actually are and being able to accept them). This already seems to be a problem with phones and earphone already but adding the visual aspect could make it far worse. I seems to me that this isolation is the root cause of the rise of mental illness in our society today. Chronic isolation, leading to chronic anxiety, leading to depression.
And what’s wild to me is the idea that all we need to do is create a space for interaction within the tech. We’re socializing with extra steps.
During lockdown, and even since because my parents live 500 miles away, playing a round of mini-golf on the headset is pretty cool interaction. But my parents have designated areas of the house for them to play a board game together without bumping into each other.
Thanks captain NotAPsychologist
@@ericabaliotis6973 That last bit is horrifying. Your parents can't just... play a real board game? That's so tragic/sad I can't even.
How could you define VR without "oblivious to your surroundings" being a neccesary part of it? Otherwise, it's augmented reality (AR).
As for getting the user's attention. You just need a little button, not on the worn equipment, that someone can push, or a phone app, etcetera that sends a little bird flying down to gently whisper in their virtual ear that they are needed back on Earth 1.
You could have automatic bird notifications for weather alerts, or whatever.
no the root cause is capitalism. the only issue with vr/the internet is that its used as a *replacement* for in person socialization, instead of a *supplement* . which for a social species like humans, is BAD. no amount of online socialization can replace our biological need for in person socialization. this isolation is just another symptom of capitalism.
also the way cities used to be built made spontaneous interactions very common, thanks to high mixed density, pedestrian friendly city centers, and good public transportation. but capitalism came in after ww1 and destroys the density for freeways and suburbs, and took out the public transportation and pedestrian friendly roads to turn into streets and parking for cars. this was so bad in north america you can look up before and after photos of tons of small and large cities being destroyed for the car. the effects of capitalism are so broad its hard to think of something that it doesnt affect negatively
Billion dollar idea: the Actual Assistant. For the low low price of minimum wage, you can pay someone to follow you around carrying your phone. Whenever you need, you can ask them questions, use them to schedule tasks, and of course, make calls. And you never have to hold or use a phone again.
I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the smart phone world. Yes, I am old. But my entire career was in software development, and after I retired I was determined to only check my email once a day. No more checking voice messages every hour. Now I also check my phone once a day. And my friends and family hate me for it.
On the other hand, I manage to read through a couple of books a week. 😁
Nice, I still have the Razor :)
Im not too old yet, but i also check my phone once a day and i have all notifications turn off. Feels so good without constant distraction.
I finally got one when 3g went away. I only use it for phone calls and texts (and sometimes pictures). Even this huge samsung is too small for me. No way I'm straining my eyes for this POS. If it can't wait until I get home and get on a proper computer, it's not that important. Of course I could always get reading glasses, but I'm not going to do that until absolutely necessary. I'm perfectly happy not wearing glasses atm.
I use my phone like a land line. I don't take it to the bathroom, shop, table, bedroom, or yard. I stick in my pocket when I drive somewhere. I don't use it to watch YT or E-mail. I have a powerful desktop and a wall-mounted 65" monitor with keyboard and mouse by my recliner. Smartphones are to small to use comfortably, smart glasses may be the ticket.
@@JimmyMon666 You can go to your phone's settings and increase text size. It affects all text in all apps. Settings -> Display -> Font size and style. There's also a "Screen zoom" setting under the font size setting, which affects UI elements of apps.
After working at a pawn shop that had a reality TV show filmed there, people definitely act differently when there is a camera pointed at them. This new tech would take that type of filming to a whole new and weird level.
Great comment.
Funny, today I was driving and a car in front had what looked like a camera sticking up above it, like where the car radio aerial is. I was so paranoid, and definitely being ultra careful to be on my best behaviour, especially as I had a work uniform on. I'm thinking now of maybe getting a dash cam to face the rear to see if it'll reduce aggression from drivers behind me.
American Jewelry pawn shop in Detroit? lol
@@quantist4266 That's the one.
In the USA people go to bars go watch tv 😆😆😆
I'd agree. The last time I "upgraded" my phone, it felt like a lateral move at best.
Agreed… went from the 10 “X” to the 14 pro max and other then a bigger screen it’s basically the same phone.
I've had a galaxy 10 going on 5 years now. Works absolutely fine.
@@davidkymdell452 You're not missing anything. My previous phone was an S10e. I switched to a S22. It's basically the same phone.
I currently have an iPhone 13 handed down to me from my dad, and I have no intentions of getting a 15. If/when I need a new phone I'll be getting an older and smaller smartphone or just run a dumbphone. I'm starting to find large smartphones a hassle to use and kinda want something smaller.
@@davidkymdell452 I just moved from the Galaxy S8 active to the S23fe and it is more or less the same except it has 5G and yet it somehow does not feel the same OS wise and I am having trouble adjusting. Plus I am charging more often for less use it seems.
I own a Galaxy S7 and a Galaxy A32. The S7 ran like a top for years, but became obsolete when services switched from 4G to 5G. It still serves admirably as an Mp3 player and works perfectly for recording from TH-cam to cassettes. The A32 has been through all manner of crap and keeps on chugging. When it eventually dies, I'm going back to a plain flip phone and mp3 player. Fun fact, my mom basically bullied me into getting a smartphone because having an LG Revere flip phone in the 2010s was "weird".
What I would really like to see is a screen that you can actually use in the sunlight. That's an innovation I could get behind. Also standard universal language translation would be incredibly helpful. 👍
iPhones 13 and up come with a 2000 nits screen. It’s bright enough to see everything in sunlight, though admittedly it would be ideal if the screen could shine through my polarized sunglasses.
I believe the brightest that phone screens will ever get is 2800 nits; I cannot imagine a situation where more nits would even be desired, not to mention necessary.
@@andreirachko the problem with just blasting the nits is that it heats up the screen...while it's in the sun... after a few minutes the screen has to turn itself down because it's too hot.
Threedimensional image would be a real improvement
@@CRneu fair point, I noticed that too. I guess there is indeed more room for improvement than I thought.
Digital ink screens.
I think there's something about the form and function of current smart phones that hits a sweet spot for...well, human beings. Over the last few decades we've invented countless devices, and we tend to keep coming back to a form factor that fits easily in our hands and pockets. Cell phones, handheld video games, Walkmen/mp3 players, calculators, voice recorders, cameras...there are lots of tasks that we just seem to prefer doing on something roughly the size and shape of a smartphone, and more often than not we like controlling them using our fingers, even when voice control is an option.
Goes back way further than that too. Look up the size of the clay record keeping tablets used in Uruk and Ur in ancient Mesopotamia.
They're basically the same size albeit thicker.
yeah but the signal was way better @@SpaceRodan
I agree with ya except on one thing.
Gaming on a phone is garbage! No thanks. Give me a TV or a gaming PC with a mouse and keyboard or other specialized controllers like a joystick for a flight sim.
Foldable phones for the win is the next logical form factor.
Wouldn't it be awesome if your phone was a scroll that you could unroll to whatever size you needed at the time?
Or just about phone sized now, and thicker, but could fold out like old school maps? Again if you wanted the size of a phone it works. If you want double you unfold it once and it becomes half the size of a tablet. Then unfold a third time and it becomes larger then a tabet?
This is the only logical form factor till we get a small little lens that showcases the world or whatever we are watching. Basically a HUD or augmented reality.
Then combine it with something like a way to type on our forearms. Navigate or click with our eyes.
I think you just explained the cause of our phone addiction. We need to use our hands! That's how we learn and create. We should go back to making things with our hands: craft, woodwork, bread, etc to counter balance our phone addiction. It's in our hands!
@dianapennepacker6854
You basically just described a Scroll from the web animation RWBY. Basically a hard light screen display between two switch-like controllers that functions almost exactly like a smartphone.
It starts off about the size of a flip phone and you pull on the two sides to expand it out to the size of a small tablet.
Folding phones are a bit niche, but having a tensioned flexible plastic screen that you can extend and contract like a tape measurer from a tube like handle could create a larger screen while also shrinking the device size to something the size of roll of half-dollar coins, and just have the display sized to fit what screen is exposed, so you could open it up a little bit to check a phone call, or open it up half way to have a regular smartphone display, or open it up fully to have a wide screen display that could function as an entire multi-screen work station.
Obviously that might necessitate the tube being a touch longer than a smartphone and having controller periphials to make best use of it but it's certainly a method of giving you more screen space on a smaller package
The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. It may have been the first _popular_ smartphone, but blackberries and PalmOS phones pre-dated it. I had a PalmOS phone before the Treo came out (yes, I also had a couple Treos). There were 3rd party apps for them, but loading new apps was a bit of a hassle.
I had a "smartphone" even before the iPhone hit the market. It was Windows Mobile, with REAL GPS and could do everything modern smartphones do. It was basically a PDA with cellular capability and a GPS built in. The interface just wasn't as slick as they are now but that really didn't matter.
Talking about smartphones but failing to mention Palm OS devices, programmable calculators, pocket computers and laptops is a major oversight. The two greatest features of smartphones are their portability and their ability to combine all our previous devices into one thing.
In college I carried a walkman, a minidisk player/recorder, a Mavica digital camera, an Iomega Zip Drive and a Handspring Visor PDA (the Palm Pilot competitor) and nobody thought it was all that odd. I could see the Palm type devices becoming the thing of the future because they were working hard to get as much function into one thing. They had a cell phone add-on, thousands of apps, a camera add-on, memory expansions, and maybe even an MP3 player in the works. Apple had its failed Newton device and everyone wants to quietly act like it never happened. This video talks about interacting with the devices differently but that's not what is needed for change.
I think the next big thing that'll come to smartphones is finding what it is that they currently can't do and that's where the change will come from.
IPhones fanboys tend to make that oversight from time to time (usually... Always)
HTC had cool windows phones way b4 iPhone too, had a stylus and everything they were pretty kewl
I think the next step is going to be the glasses. Next after that...likely implants. Not in my lifetime likely, but eventually.
If they make smart glasses that can correct vision better than traditional lens glasses that might be something I'd actually invest in. Some people have problems in their eyes that just a lens can't fix, but a display maybe could. Don't see why you couldn't add a bit of AR to that while you're at it. And a zoom functionality? And a rewind would be really useful too.
X-Ray vision would be fun 😆
Omg - zoom, replay! How’bout identify that bird, or Im lost, where am I? Or -put me in Italy, or Put me on the moon. It could find my keys, know the nutritional value of my dinner plate.
Perhaps not X-ray, since some people might get offended when radiated... but IR and UV vision would have their uses. Not to mention macro- and zoom-vision far beyond cababilities ot the human eye. That "dash cam" feature would help to solve muggings, accidents etc. LiDAR similar to iPhone 12...15 Pro/Pro Max, just with much more advanced SW, would be nice.
And they'd offer superior vision correction to traditional glasses, too. Including just the right mount of automatic darkening. Using the optimal or preferred color. Mirror-finish or not, you choose. While having about the same weight as traditional sun glasses...
Something similar to HUD (Head-up display) in todays cars would be an obvious feature. Just more sophisticated and versatile, in 3D colour etc. Sometimes Pizzeria's menu, sometimes a map. Or just simple arrow guiding you to the right floor and room, making sure you wont be late from the meeting.
High quality Movie Theater screen (HDR, of course) would be cool, as long as it would be automatically disabled for anyone driving any kind of vehicle.
Privacy is an obvious problem. And distractions --> accidents etc. Propably never before seen amount of obnoxious, forced advertisement, too. More malicious and twisted than ever before, targeted specifically to make a single human being generate absolutely maximum cashflow. Without a single pause, 24/7/365, for the rest of the marks life.
For example, vast AI Farms owned by Coca-Cola, Nike, Huawei, Pfizer, CCP etc. would easily learn to bypass any open Source Add-Block SW + punish you for trying it. And nobody can prevent them. Well, at least not level 4 basic citizens.
When I started wearing glasses, back in the 90’s I didn’t realise how glasses worked (I was a late teen when i started) I had a manual focus camera and would take photos onto film, with and without my glasses and a week or so later when i got the pictures back almost every picture was out of focus, because my glasses were fighting with the cameras focusing. I still don’t need glasses within about a foot
that'd really only work for extreme near-sightedness
A very interesting topic. As someone who owns smart phone, tablet, laptop, PC, etc., and relies on the technology for my job in particular, I think that the smart phone and its evil cousin social media, have had an extremely deleterious effect on society in general. It's too easy to be rude when hiding behind the anonymity of a computer; it's too easy to be a troll and annoy people; it's too easy to be able to spout off with remarks guaranteed to offend, and to share those remarks with millions of people with the click of a button. On a more personal level, how many of us have been at social gatherings where everyone is more interested in looking at his or her phone than in interacting with actual humans? This is not healthy by any objective measure.
The technology has advanced too quickly for social etiquette to keep up.
@@gilessteve Excellent observation!
Most accurate statement, regarding smart phones and social media, I have ever read.
I think it also helps you to determine who to keep in your friend circle. I have made a point of building a real, live network of friends and associates who, like me, don't engage with social media. We have actual interests that exist in the real world and don't overlap being online. It's refreshing to hold conversations with people who do interesting things and have interests that exist in reality as opposed to online.
I have an acquaintance who works in IT. he does ALL of his work on his PC, preferably on Linux, doesn't own a laptop as far as I am aware and while he owns a smartphone, he has barely any aps on it.
Smartphones have always been time wasting devices first and foremost, status symbols second, and utilities a distant third.
Laptops are not for doing work, but for making work portable.
Smartphones are a hype. That hype is coming to an end. The big companies are trying to start a new hype, that being VR. That is the core of the issue.
Never really thought about the whole "camera on every person" scenario that much before, but when you mentioned that people act differently in front of a camera it reminded me very much of Autism Masking. As I've learned how to understand what masking is and how to be a more authentic person to myself and loved ones, I've realized just how exhausting it is to mask and how much I dislike being someone I'm not, which for me results in the opposite effect of wanting to socialize because I don't want to have to seem "acceptable" in as many categories as possible every time I interact with someone.
My professional mask isn't as exhausting as it was before, and I think thats because I tend to keep my professional life distant from my personal life, but also that professional mask does just fine by being positive, kind, and upbeat, at least when I can be. This experience makes me think that overall, a camera on every person scenario will most likely result in massive social shifts as we try to figure out how to live like this as a species, or a mass amount of rejection to this current format until a discreet format becomes more available. The discreet option, however, is pretty close to the idea of just cybernetics, which tech already has made a few breakthroughs in contact lenses being able to act similar to these AR options. At some point, someone could just pop in contacts and now their eyes are cameras, and that will very much impact the way we as a species interact.
The future is kinda concerning, but idk, maybe this will push us to be less shitty to each other over time, and more empathetic, when you know that the world itself is possibly watching. Likewise, the amount of paranoia this will cause will probably require an entire field of therapy appearing to help cope.
We can always take the glasses off when we want them to be genuine with us
Agree wholeheartedly Spectre, and it’s one of the main reasons I spend almost all of my non professional life alone. Knowing that you are under surveillance means that whoever you would be absent the watching/recording takes a back seat to whatever your brain decides is socially viable. It’s exhausting
what kind of stuff are yall getting up to when you're not being watched?
Just because people want privacy doesn't mean they're doing anything bad.
@@skyemecham9392 these dudes are talking about being forced to act inauthentically, that kind of implies the way they normally act is socially unacceptable
It's extremely bold to assume that I want a screen in my glasses. Could you imagine the ads they could throw in your face while you work or drive? That's dangerous.
0:50 The biggest difference between the 5s and the 14 is that it's much harder to pick the more modern version up without dropping it because you're gingerly holding it by the edges, scared of touching pixels you didn't want to touch. I hated losing that handy dead border :(
There are rugged cases that return that feeling back to using the older device! lol
@@rootbrian4815 Good point. Maybe I should switch my case to something chunkier!
@@macronencer Seidio or otterbox or the equivalent generic rugged ones would do fine.
same, the "all the front of the device is interactable" (some did the sides as well!) concept is very dumb outside of a slide deck. Every time I grab someone's phone, there's a back-and-forth where I touch something and give it back so they can open what they were showing me again. It's not a user-centered design, it's a marketing-centered design.
I've always used Samsungs but man when they went to curved glass that made things even worse. I hated it. The phone I'm holding still has curved glass but I think the next Flagship is completely flat. That curved glass means you can't really even hold it by the sides without touching the screen.
The idea of transparent displays always seemed impractical to me for two main reasons. 1 - Depending on the opacity of the items on the display, having a transparent screen means you would have (for lack of a better term) visual interferance. Unless you have something of a solid color behind the display, it could be difficut to see anything. 2 - Privacy. I don't think I would want to be able to see what everyone is scrolling through, or letting everyone see what I'm looking at.
I was also thinking the other day about the idea of implantible tech. With the current model of planned obsolescence, I don't think I would want to have to get surgery, even minor surgery every time I need to update tech.
I am excited to see where things go from here because most of the stuff that I grew up viewing as the tech of the future just doesn't make sense to me anymore.
I don't think transparency is as important as flexibility. Imagine a phone the size of a Sharpie that had its screen rolled up around itself. You unscroll the screen to x size to use per normal, then roll it back up for storage.
planned obsolescence is exactly that, planned. It's not that we can't do stuff that last 10-20 years. We have the tech for it. The industry just don't make it because they don't need to or want to. Actually, in the SW world there's the concept of SaaS. You can't buy it anymore, but for only 9.99/month you can subscribe to it. And phones last exactly 2 years. You can make implants that last 20 years easy.
You're right. Transparent screens are like the Dick Tracy phone watch, or flying cars -- tech that sounds cool, but which we realize is a spectacularly bad idea once it becomes feasible.
We've had the technology to make see through books and notepads for decades after all, and no one has even suggested that it was an idea that should be tried.
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I find it odd that you dis the Dick Tracy watch while ignoring the Apple Watch.
The core issue with flying cars is the pilot's licensing which just keeps getting more expensive and out of reach. Classic sci-fi novels discussing flying cars had pilot's license and aerodynamics being taught in high school while ground transportation was relegated to middle school aged kids.
As the current Green Agenda highlights, the Elite want to keep the sky free for themselves, not for anyone else. Carbon emissions doesn't matter for Taylor Swift or John Kerry, just backyard lawnmowers and cow farts.
Even if the implants were perfect, from my understanding, the body eventually rejects them.
Even medical implants that bind with bone etc. The body is more like "fine F you, if we can't get rid of you, I'll just invelope you"
It's still not very happy to have anything not of your DNA to be in it.
The credit for this device ought to go to the writers of Star Trek the Next Generation. The Star Fleet badge is a communicator that translates languages and allows for instant communication among the crew members.
Very good point, but they should've gotten a patent on it. #missedopportunity 😆
It's actually a bad communicator and the video quality is aweful. I totally understand why it's not possible to use your hand as an monitor, but so should they.
As long as I can buy a tile that can do all of this and much more I never would even consider to buy such a thing.
I was hoping the leap forward would be a badge type device. That or a visor like Gordie’s
@@Spielernameyeah, the problem with auto translate isn't that it's not your voice. It's that the translation is bad. We need better translators
If they make that product in the form of a com badge I might just buy one 🖖
I really don't want to wear some clunky goggles around everywhere.
Just because a product has matured doesn’t mean it’s getting replaced. Literally: refrigerator, microwave, cars, etc.
All of which have made drastic and incredible changes 👀
@@TwoPaw-ShapurrUm - really? What "drastic and incredible" change is on your microwave? (And no, a popcorn button is neither).
It's a click bait title. Did you really think the dude had some scoop?
Exactly. Despite all the bells and whistles on all of the producs you mentioned as well as the smartphone, every single one of them are still in use for the original function that they were created for.
Innovation death happened in smartphones from 2017 -18
My thing with the transparent phone and foldable phones was ... like ... why ... what problem are they solving to be the next big thing.
Only advantage I can think of with a transparent screen is using it for AR purposes. Other than that it´s way worse than an ordinary screen. Maybe one that can switch the transparent feature on and off?
Foldables aren't THAT dumb, More biggerer=more betterer, for some. Tablet functionality, fits inside pocket...it solves a problem if you really, really want more screen room. My mom likes her Z Fold4, since it lets you fit a normal amount of content at once while using an easy to read larger text scaling, for her old people eyeballs.
Gimmick products are companies shooting their shot. If it works out they'll be THE company for it. I don't mind them but I'm not the type to fomo for stuff anymore.
@@MichaelBeale Yes if you want screen size greater than say 7 inches ... then yes but you would have to give up on thickness of the phone when folded ..
I have foldable and like the bigger screen when needed. It's not necessary though.
I remember wanting a Razr so bad. At the time it was the coolest phone you could get.
Used mine until forced into "smart" phones. Tiny little thing I could fit into any pocket. Now we are stuck with smart phones making people dumber.
I had one of those but the shape made it difficult to hold, just didn't fit my hand. Anyway, it was short lived as it got dropped in the toilet, lol.
Still have mine. Wish the video recording was better, the bitrate makes it kind of useless. I guess it was meant for email but they should have included a high quality mode. It's now sitting in a box with several movies on it I encoded in 256k 144p. 🤓🤨
Subjective. Billions of humans all had their own favorite smart phone.
I had one back in the day, I was the coolest kid in town - until the ‘6’ stopped working, limiting the number of people I could call. Sent it back, got a new one, and that would switch off when someone called. So in summary: cool phone, not the most practical.
The Humane AI pin part of the video aged like milk
What happened?
thats good news
In my teenage years and early 20s I was hooked on devices. Building computers, troubleshooting problems with friends/family devices, always sitting at my PC, etc. Now, into my 30s, I'm pushing away from devices more and more. Hours daily I'll just leave my phone somewhere and forget about it as I go about my day outside or in the dining room with a board game. I know lots of others are doing the same. I'm sure these new gadgets will have their audience, but I don't doubt there will be a larger and larger divide between the gadget users and the folks like myself that are just burned out and sick of it all.
Good for you. People walk around with their nose in a device, totally oblivious to the mugger behind them or the car they are about to walk in front of. I was into computers back when they took up the room. I didn't really start hating it until smart phones. At least I live near Amish and Mennonites, they've managed to live without it and remind me I can too.
Some Gen Z teens in Brooklyn are calling themselves the Luddites, rejecting smartphones. Probably others around the world too. Seems smart to me.
@@hr3134Right on. I don't need some title or group to join for it. I'm happy enough just going about my life as I see fit.
@@clearsky4003 I agree about the people and environment for the most part but when I use it it's 90% shorter phone calls, texts only when I want to save info like an address and the camera was handy whe I had a fender bender. I'm not on it much at all even out of Amish country.
I don't know if it is just me, but in today's day and age of more and more ads being forced into every single app, device, and unused space, I personally like that when I put the phone in my pocket, I can escape the attritional onslaught of advertisement. As much as AR glasses and what not sound cool, you know that it would just be another way to assault every waking moment with more ads so that you could never have another moment to be alone with your thoughts or the beauty of the unmonetized environment.
To be honest ads are already everywhere in cities and as long as we don't go full chip in the brain you can always just take the glasses off
And you _know_ it is going to happen because advertising....
Fortunately a highly productive fix for the problem can be found using an age-old remedy.. a 22 oz. framing hmmer.
Look at how few likes you got although it is 2 months later, but still. People are already transhuman. They don't have empathy, they don't want to connect with humans or Mother Earth.
Everyone who uses this toxic weapon constantly isn't just harming themselves & children, but everyone around them & all living things.
I have proof for everything. Please don't believe the lies, please wake up. I beg you to start learning.
Like black mirror
I've been debating going back to a dumbphone. I've been watching this trend of young people going back to dumbphones and I really like the idea of not being spied on by every company ever and not being tempted to whip out your phone every 12 seconds
It occurred to me while watching this that I might finally be aging out of some of these major tech advancements. My phone provides music in the car, navigation, access to information and something to take 10,334,432 photos of my cats. I just can't imagine adopting something new technology now that I'm over 50. Totally fine with others being excited, but I think I'm generally satisfied with where I'm at.
I’m 71 and have never owned a smartphone, I really have no need for one.
I'm not yet 40. And I think I'm good too. But I've always been behind the times. I didn't have a mobile computer until 2007. I didn't have a smartphone until 2014. I didn't have a large flat screen WiFi TV until the beginning of the pandemic.
And the laptop and the TV were gifts! If left up to my own devices it probably would have been longer.
I'm 45 and if I ever win the lottery I'll be smashing mine and getting a dumb phone.
@@georgejones3526 I am over 71 and have had several smartphones. I also recently dumped Windoze and both my laptops run on Ubuntu, my partner is fine with Windows 11 and I, occasionally, use that for windows only software such a configurations for my New Solar Power setup, this is the second one I have built. I am now in the process of configuring the internet comms for the setup.I like learning new stuff, it keeps you young in the brain.
I'm 22, a media student of all things meaning i work with the newest of technologies every day and absolutley nerd out over stuff like this but god forbid i will never upgrade from my 2012 iphone, i love that thing so much and already had to buy one used because the old ones battery exploaded the screen off of the old one
Transparent screens age like transparent windows on your desktop. Seems cool at first then you realise how distracting it is and turn it off
we went from 10 hours of charge to get 30 minutes of call time to 30 minutes of charge to get 10 hours of call time.
But the old phone had a special feature: it was so heavy that noone could keep it up more than 3 minutes allowing for 10 calls.
And it gave you plenty of excuses for not answering the phone 😂
Thank you for mentioning the concerns around self-censorship and there always being a camera around. Unfortunately I don't think it'll make a difference, but I'll feel better about it if people are willing to recognize the full scope of consequences this kind of tech will bring on us.
Lol yeah if people really cared about being recordered there wouldn't be so many videos of people acting outrageously. Also omg police body cam footage, it seems almost fake how stupid/entitled some of the people are.😅
Actually modern human speak more freely compare to the era before smartphone. So i’m not sure what is that "self censorship" in western countries, because i see more and more horrible speech freely lurking in twitter without any consequences. For Asia countries, we’re self censorship for the entire life and you don’t see us complain.
The full scope also includes people who, having no expectation of privacy also stop respecting it for others.
@@rewer Sorry, but that shows how "whipped" you are, that you've surrendered free speech to the government! You should be ashamed of yourself (especially the Chinese, who should have gotten rid of Bling-Bling and his ilk by now, but cowardly allow that dictator and his inflated party of yes-men to dominate them without once saying "No! Not acceptable!")
The very concept of privacy is likely to change. If you recall even passports were once considered to violate anonymity. Today we have people willingly sharing their lives on social media.
Controllers aren’t clunky, they provide precision input in a way that hand detection can’t come close to matching.
The hardware of the cell phone is complete. After that, is the improvements on the software (like apps) for the maxed out improvements of the cell phone. No one is going to want to wear bulky goggles. And the pen lazer is very stupid. The best thing about smartphones is watching videos and texting (because no one calls anyone anymore). Something that has a slight chance could be the glasses if the video was really good and you found a way you could text just as quickly (with reliability).
It's like trying to reinvent the shovel. It's already as good as it can be. So you need let that one go, stop focusing on what's already invented, go beyond that. And just find something totally new to invent, if that is your great desire.
I know what it might be! Imagine having a phone for voice calls only. Almost zero privacy concerns! It doesn't need replacing often so it is cost-effective. You don't take it with you when you leave home, so it's not constantly interrupting you. When you're not there to answer it, people can just leave a voice message!
In your dreams pal... 😒
What, like it used to be about 20-25 years ago. No one struggled to keep in touch with each other in those days.
When I was a teenager back in the 80's I would have to leave the house and walk to a public phone box if I wanted to have a private call with my girlfriend.
I remember talking to my LAN line supplier several years ago and was asking about metered long distance calling since most of my friends were local. She said that it was a bit expensive: $5 per 100 minutes. I explained to her that in the 1960s, long-distance calls were like $1 or $2 a MINUTE! Everyone had ways of cutting the costs down.
Seriously? If you don't need the "Smart" features of a phone you can already keep your phone for ten years.
And, right now, without new technology, you can ALREADY leave your phone at home.
Just in case you weren't aware, your phone has an "off" button!
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A few years ago, I was "actually" talking to one of the girls in our office and she was complaining that her iPhone wasn't working quite right. I said to turn it off and on again. She responded with "what if I miss a call while it's off". She told me she had never turned her phone off.
I recently tried a different new tech called "chatting in person" with a physical person. Things got weird.
Ah, you’re a Luddite I see. 🤪
I don't see that catching on. At all.
Crazy idea in the first place! 😮
Watch out! That realm is ridden with viruses.
Also not good to give out your phone #. If someone isn't in my contacts I don't answer. They can leave a message if it's important.
That active translator is a great feature, and I've personally long liked the idea of a (under my direct control only) always on camera. Anyone who rides a motorcycle on the street has probably run into the "I want a camera but don't want the hassle and object sticking out" debate.
And maybe cops will be on better behavior if they know you have a body cam, too!! 😆
In HS in like... 2004, a friend had a translator very similar, but it was a single device and language. So this part has actually been around for a while.
Yeah, bicycles and pedestrians too, since in most cases if something happens, a car driver isn't hurt and they can tell their story, while you're unconscious and unlikely to remember what happened when you do regain consciousness.
Definitely a good use case.
Having ridden a motorcycle for the last 30 years, yeah... I remember that conversation back about a year before the first go-pro's came out. It was short and relatively quick. I get an abbreviated/abridged variant anymore with any new bike or mod's at the shop...
The first one was "How do we get this camera on the bike without it catching wind and getting whipped off?" followed directly with "How do I make sure it's on?" and "Is it going to retain video in a crash? Those get pretty bad when you're cut off with nowhere to go."
Now, it's more like, "Yeah, the custom cowling on front and include the shock-absorbing and damper for the camera-mount right there, Bill. OF COURSE, I want the aftermarket usb-multi-charge port! I'm not wrenching on Suzie to swap it over and back! Do I still look that stupid???"
Fortnine's latest video featured one of his sponsor's products, a camera so small you can magnetically clip it to just about anything and get the "action shot" of it floating through a full-face helmet. It can attach to the power source in a POCKET for a body-camera that catches nothing on your chest for ride-along vid's... On it's own, the camera's barely as big as a thumb...
AND that particular video was actually ABOUT Japan's latest secretive developments in HUD tech', from a sh*tty helmet device with a jittery display that made Ryan nauseous with the blinker light vibrating in view... to the next-gen competition with "Goggles" to reduce jitter and enhance visual quality... My big worry (besides price) is WHO gets to pick what I NEED to see in an HUD??? I sure as hell hope I get some contextual menu and settings control, or I'll just stick to a dedicated lid like always. The full-face development was a sh*t-show for us in the mountains until they got ventilation sorted out. NOTHING in the world compares to the shear panic of hitting a cold-spot in the mountains with a brand new helmet only to be BLINDLY TESTING SAID HELMET at speed... BAM! It's similar to cruising along at 80 mph into a white blanket across your face out of nowhere. ;o)
While translating tools make our lives easier, i lament that fewer people will see the value of learning other languages. Learning and speaking other languages has not only practical value but it is true enrichment for your brain. Through it you understand the other culture better, but also you'll understand your own language better, and it is great brain training.
What's perhaps more wild is that 3/10 people don't own a smart phone. Curious what's being counted as people. Like, toddlers wouldn't have a smart phone probably.
Yeah that’s true although there is an element of unpredictability these days due to the loads of lackluster parenting that’s really felt like the worst it’s been.
The bit that I don’t like about having my phone is that I’m contactable at every single second of my life 24/7 365 days at the whim of the caller.
I’ve moved away from answering my phone instantly. I’ll call them back and if it’s important enough they’ll leave a TEXT message. You couldn’t pay me to listen to a voicemail.
Friends and family get annoyed I’m hard to get ahold of but it’s only because they’ve become so conditioned to having someone answer *their* phone call when *they* want.
Back in the day you’d have to call the house phone and if you didn’t want to talk, either you didn’t pick it up or all your family member or housemate had to say was oh yeah sorry they arnt here, can I take a message? No? Ok call back later. And no one would get butt hurt over you not answering the phone.
My point is I hate having to be available for anyone, at any time, when they randomly choose. If they gave me warning they were calling things would be different but they don’t so here we are. Me watching the phone ring out
YES!
Stop answering the phone, text and the like when you are off.
With you there. I’m up against a wall where modern tech just overwhelms me. If I go for a walk on the beach, I don’t want to be reachable or even in touch. Privacy isn’t only about your info, it’s also about being alone when you want to be.
Same way I want to play an instrument, even struggle to learn how, and not just get a computer to do a better but artificial job without me learning my craft. Knowing without learning is soulless
Same, I keep my phone on silent. Always. I just never set up voice-mail so leaving a message isint even an option.
I have setup "do not disturbe" on my phone, at certain times and on certain days only a very few people are excluded, anybody else can't get hold of me.
Also, I have a work phone what is switched off on my holidays and weekends; I don't get paid extra.
The idea that we want to be rid of our phones reminds me of Microsoft's disastrous marketing of their first phone. The commercial showed a number of situations where people were too absorbed in their phones to notice what was going on around them. If I recall correctly the tag line was something like "it is time for a phone to save us from our phones". As soon as I saw it I thought "no Microsoft, people _love_ spending time on their phones".
Microsoft at least tried to come up with new and original UI, and the whole tiles idea wasn't terrible. Anyway, as they say: the rest is ....
@@radanv2535 I hated the tiles. They were the main reason I never even bothered to check out Microsoft phones.
Actually, many of us have better things to do than spend time on our phones and consider them an interruption to higher priority things we are doing. Useful when we need them and that's it.
@@stevegrieb6596exactly. There’s people that rely on their phones for everything in their life is why they will be the enslaved forever
@@stevegrieb6596 Likewise. But we can put down any brand of phone and tell it to not bother us. I would bet that you don't go out and buy the latest and greatest phone every year. We were not Microsoft's target market.
I would like to see smartphones not breaking when dropped, charging sockets that don't break and the phone suitably designed so it is easier to hold and the wireless charger still works. Interested in glasses that act like screens too. It would make it easier to work anywhere. I wouldn't be walking around with them on though. Disconnecting sometimes is good!
Honestly from a software perspective theres a lot that can be done to optimize screen interaction and reduce thumb strain. ideally there would be no reason for us to extend our thumbs or use a second hand to reach the top of the screen. Thats not a current design philosophy though
Buy a Rokform iPhone case and use an induction charger, end of problem.
OK, I'm a Luddite. But I bought an oyster-style mobile in 2009 & only this Sept 23 graduated to a smartphone. Why so late? Well just watching everyone staring into their hands as they walk along or sit in a bus etc I found most disturbing. Are we being turned into mindless brings?
Get a flip phone and end all these problems. While your at it dump windows 10 for the more functional win 7. While your at it mind where your walking.
Apparently, you don't sell smartphones.
As someone who has worn glasses for most of their life, I have wanted smart glasses ever since seeing Google Glass. I was legitimately kinda bummed when Google stopped developing Glass.
When I go out in a situation where there are going to be a lot of people around, I sometimes ditch the earbuds and take my chunky headphones with me. I do that because I don't want to talk with random strangers, and nothing keeps people from bothering you like a visible pair of headphones. I think our phones operate in a similar fashion a lot of the time. Humans are crammed together like we've never really been and having phones to look at can give us the necessary distance required to breathe. I remember reading an article a couple years ago where the author was complaining that someone had headphones on and she couldn't talk to him in line at the coffee shop, and how isolated this made her feel, and I was thinking 'Lady, that's a you problem. He doesn't want to talk to you. This is just keeping you from imposing on him. It's not his job to make you happy.' People keep looking for things that remove that barrier, but just like me ditching the practically invisible earbuds in favor of a pair of headphones, I think that barrier isn't a bug, it's a feature.
I'd agree, I stick headphones in sometimes at stores when I don't want to have a conversation. I carry them at all times even if I'm not planning on using them for anything.
Sadly, over usage of noise cancelling earbuds or headphones will cause long term ear and brain issues. Such as over stimulation in quiet areas for some time afterwards nausea in extreme cases and enhanced tinnitus. Among other things, do your own research, I am not your mother....lol But good luck to you none the less if you continue to over use those!!!! :)
@@Defensive_WoundsI’ve used noise canceling ear buds and headphones for years and have never gone through any of that. Those side effects are extremely uncommon. Do your own research, I’m not your dad.
@@Defensive_Wounds I have no idea where you pulled out that bullshit, but I would love a research paper if you indeed have a link. Noise-cancelling is literally just a device recording noise and then generating opposite sound waves to that noise, so it cancels it out. It literally has no direct effect on the brain unless I guess you're in a pure noise vacuum aka you're not listening to anything which you would just take them off at that point because staying in complete silence is uncomfortable for us humans, also it would really just affect the ears I guess by maybe making them more sensitive, but again I feel like that would only work if you're in complete silence and that's unhealthy... you can just turn off noise-canceling if you're not listening to music while having them on...
@@Defensive_Wounds In a crowded, noisy household, whatever longterm effects there might be are supplanted by the short term effects of me not strangling the people I live with. And that's not a joke or hyperbole. Before I got mine, I was starting to experience some serious rage issues. Out in public, I don't turn the headphones on. That kind of lack of awareness in public is dangerous. They're just there to signal to people that I'm not available for random conversation.
I feel like VR headsets are a very 1990s idea, it really makes me think of the Virtual Boy. The issue with digital assistants that are voice-activated, is that most people don't want to interact with their phone via voice anymore... they prefer the privacy of texting. I really don't think anything short of a brain-computer interface of some kind could obsolete the smartphone.
I forget where I saw it, but there's a device that can understand words that you say under your breath, based on vibrations in your skull rather than sound moving through the air. That could be ideal for this kind of tech.
This is how I feel. The perception of privacy (not actual privacy, people happily give away all their private information every time they even look at a smartphone) is absolutely vital to the success of a smartphone replacement. That's why headsets are a more obvious choice over voice-activated assistants. The main problem with headsets is how to control them.
- Controllers are TERRIBLE (outside of private recreation). They're an additional cost and on top of that they're an additional thing to carry around. This can be mitigated by wearable controllers, but that would almost certainly bring us to my next point...
- Gestures are BAD (sorry Apple) -> way too visible and unworkable in a public space. Imagine trying to use gesture controls at a coffee shop. On the sidewalk. On a crowded metro train. Not. Gonna. Happen. Gestures are a pretty good way to control a (private recreation) VR headset device, but they are not gonna work at all for a smartphone replacement.
+ *Eye tracking* is how this problem can be resolved. It's more private than using your fingers (as our eyes can be completely covered with this tech) and it requires less effort (you move your eyes all the time). "Clicking" can be done either by focusing for a certain amount of time or blinking twice while focusing/blinking for a little longer than normal/something like that. Moving your eyes around a screen to select things is actually way more intuitive than any other method of doing so -- it's literally what you do all the time, then you have to annoyingly use some kind of other thing to do the actual selecting (an arm, a remote, a controller, a button, etc). Way better and way easier than anything else.
Add on ear pieces and you have a device that is -completely- private. Way, way more private than a smartphone and it requires less effort to use (in fact you can literally always have it on). These devices have cameras on the outside and show you your surroundings, so it is entirely possible to go about your day as normal with one on. Not only is it possible in fact, this is the ideal use-case for such a device.
The last problem is comfort. For all that smartphones have grown in screen size recently, they've actually gotten quite a bit lighter over the years. This was the key for wireless phones as well -- lighter meant more comfortable to use. Palm sized (which was achieved from the get-go with smartphones) also meant more comfortable to use. A successful headset needs to be as light as possible and no larger than a pair of goggles. There are devices that come remarkably close to this, so it's not off the table at all. Frankly smartphones nowadays are really similar in computation power, camera size & quality requirements, and screen resolution requirements to what such a device would realistically need and they aren't far off everything else right now (that's why google cardboard is able to exist after all).
A problem that isn't really a problem is aesthetic. Once the above issues are resolved this one can be iterated until we find a design that people will settle on. The first smartphones were pretty ugly and all looked pretty different. Smartphones today are sleek and well-designed from form factor to UI, and they all look about the same. That's probably what you'd expect from this kind of system.
The secret real last problem is marketing. The first smartphone had killer marketing thanks to Apple and that made a big difference.
The first device that goes all-in on eye tracking controls that isn't prohibitively expensive and isn't too heavy will be the one that has the best opportunity to take off, so long as it is marketed well.
I do think that's one way that Apple was pretty forward thinking with their Vision Pro; much of the interaction isn't with voice commands (or even visible gestures), but with eye tracking and optical gestures, if you will. I think a well executed variant of that in AR glasses would be quite appealing to a lot of people.
@@winterfollowsspring8637 Own a smartphone* but really any electronic from the past 10 years. Welcome to the dystopian world of ultrasonic cross device tracking.
@@senorali Yeah that device is called AlterEgo.
Honestly I think these devices are a threat, the only reason I bought a smartphone a couple years ago was because I felt forced into doing so by things like 2 factor authentication, being able to pay for a car parking space, banks requiring you to have a smartphone for "security" There are all manner of things requiring the use of a smartphone these days that you just don't notice when you actually have one. The tech industry and government has shown over and over they can't be trusted with your data which is why I do not like being coerced into using these devices. Rant Over.
Agree. I went back to a flip phone and only use a smart phone to watch boring videos at night to fall asleep. Using a phone for 2 factor authentication is ridiculous since people bring their phones everywhere and get them lost/stolen. I was able to just side load the authenticator app on an Android emulator so I can do it right there on my laptop LOL.
lol after my tablet died I started to use my phone to watch videos at night, its a great way to get to sleep ! @@castirondude
Yeah I don't think I'll be getting a Vision Pro, and I have entertained the idea of going back to a dumbphone. I still like the idea of doing that. I've been using iPods for my music to have more control over what I consume, no subscription fees, no content disappearing from my library.
You've hit the nail on the head as far as my own opinion goes. The fact that we're more or less 'forced' to use a smartphone is why I hate them. I don't leave home a lot ...I'm a senior citizen ...I have an up to date desktop computer AND an up to date laptop I share with my husband, AND an iPad as well. I do NOT also need a smartphone ...except because I have to have one to receive verification codes, etc. So I've had to get one ...which I also share with my husband, which can cause problems if we both use the same phone number for the same company. We recently changed banks because the old bank suddenly insisted that online banking wasn't 'secure' any more, unless it was done via an app on a smartphone. !!! A smartphone that can be lost, stolen, dropped in the toilet, etc.
I store NO sensitive content on any of my portable devices, including bank details. THAT is security.
My desktop computer is tethered to my desk, at the address where I live. I'm not anti-internet at all. What I'm anti is the requirement that every single human being has to have their entire life tied to a smartphone now, or they are left out of the loop. This has happened so fast, and it's not good.
Adapt or die. Your choice.
Transparent phones would be a privacy nightmare also if you sleep with your spouse the screen light would be way more annoying for your spouse
I think the tactile aspect of the smartphone is being kinda forgotten in this vid, like the immediate feedback is crisp, we love touching things, our brains evolved to touch and manipulate things with our hands, we got smart as a species in a big way thanks to hand to eye coordination, its an object of desire you can touch any time you want, and that is reaally ingrained in our dna tbh
so maybe yeah for the foreseeable future i do believe we´ve arrived at a sort of final form
We have arrived in the "final form" for a lot of things besides phones. And some of those, for decades.
But I guess when it comes to "advanced tech", people have a hard time accepting there's actually an end.
This is such a good point! So often, when people comment on something being "nice," it has to do with the tactile experience of it, regardless of whether it's clothes, flatware, cars, smartphones, keyboards, or anything else. Like, sure, the visual aesthetics can play an important role, but we tend to like things that are pleasing to touch and manipulate in our hands.
I know my opinion is quite unpopular regarding this, but I hate most of the touch aspect of smartphones/tablets. I never felt like I really liked it. Perhaps at first I did like it, because it was innovative and cool. Afterwards I saw myself back on a computer with a separate screen and keyboard/mouse. I don't really see how you can beat that. I always disliked the lack of precision + using my screen as a keyboard. It's a bit like the Wii controller. At first it's cool because it's innovative and cool. Afterwards I switched back to a xbox/ps controller, which got the things done without the hassle of having to move. I never understood how people could prefer smartphones/tablets over computers. Smatphones and tablets feel like extremely dumb and nerfed computers. The fact that I can only have one window open at the time has always given me a sense of claustrophobia.
In the end I think it's about getting the things you want done fast, efficiently and with comfort, which is why I never saw the touch aspect as anything but an innovative and fun aspect with very little application.
@@destroyerofworlds2239 I agree with you. I feel computers are much more comfortable.
Still, the point remains. We have reached the final form of phones. I'm pretty sure even in 50 years from now, things will have changed very little.
we also like to touch ourselfs😏
My folks had bag phones. They were fairly heavy but could talk a whole hour without needing to plug it into the car. The range to cell towers was so good by the time smaller phones came out, it was a difficult decision to give it up.
My dad had a bag phone. It was so cool when I was little lol 😂
The bag phones usually had a 3W transmitter and large (real) antennas while the smaller phones (flip, candy bar, smartphones) had 0.5W and integrated antennas. Bag phones could pick up distant cell towers much easier. 😊
Heavy
My dad had TWO! He had a personal one for a couple years alongside the one he was issued so he could be contacted anytime via a page, then going to his truck to make a call. Up until a few years ago he still had one. I doubt he got rid of it. He also had one of those brick ass Motorola's too lol
You also had to sign up like long distance. If you left your home network you had to pay roaming charges. The home network was stupidly small for some people. My grandparents couldn’t go more than about 30-50 miles from their home without going into roaming.
I think we’re at a point where we are trying to have ethics catch up to technology. This is why we are having so many societal debates regarding the next leap in technology. There probably won’t be a huge tech leap in terms of communication devices for a long time while; it’s reaching its plateau. We’ll see ethics and advancements in other areas like energy and manufacturing take the spot light for the next few generations
Sometimes laws catch up with technology but ethics? Don't think so.
Ethics is a big problem here in the US. Just look at our Supreme Court, they have no ethics, and it's all of us that get hurt.
A lot has happened technologically in the past 20 years, and we’re just now grappling with the issues of privacy, addiction, personal freedom, community, and disinformation. The world has many “experiments” running right now in societies across the globe. We can see how social media affects our children across cultures, how authoritarian regimes use technology, and how linking previously isolated parts of the world is changing entire regions.
I personally think we should be trying to ensure that our advancements don’t erode equity, human rights, and societal function instead of focusing on how we are going to accelerate our already break-neck pace.
@@PeterD2Soh, ethics have been the same since forever then? Did Ancient Egypt have the same ethic standards as us?
Like confronting a whole society and pointing out that Flappy Bird and cat videos now could mean your great grandchildren starve to death in the ruins of a flooded coastal city?
Im 42, work in tech & have a tech business, using a galaxy s10e, and im going back to a very basic phone. Honestly, i cant stand texting and social media. All i need is decent photo/video and telephone capabilities.
The term smartphone was coined back in the 90s, I had my first smartphone in 2002 with the XDA from O2... this is a very Apple-centric recollection of events.
But they really weren't.
The goal became apparent when it was realised. A fully useful computer in your pocket.
I had to look up timeline for a second there because I swear people act like/forget to mention that Apple didn't come out with the first smartphone.
Yupp, yupp, I know it was a huge milestone, that's not my point though.
@@myne00 They were. For their time they were. You don't get to compare them like that and deminish their contribution.
@@weird-guy Even talking about AR is Apple-centric, since Microsoft have had the HoloLens out for years.
They're just extremely expensive and niche products right now, much like VR headsets in generally still are.
That'll change, and I don't doubt Apple will be there, making their chunk of profit from it.
The smartphone has reached its final form, but I can't see anything replacing it - because the form factor is pretty close to ideal. You can try and replace it with holograms or VR or neural implants, but that is less convenient tech to use, so people will generally avoid it.
You sound like one of the people who said that the iPhone will fail because it doesn't have a Keyboard lmao.
@@MobikSaysStuff OK, and what can we replace phones with that has equal (or greater) functionality and isn't intrusive?
@@captainthunderbolt7541 AR/VR glasses seems to be the next logical step. If you think that they have cameras because of which people won't like them, then you're wrong. People get over stuff pretty fast. 15 years ago giving up as much privacy as people have right now would be unheard of. I assure you.. people won't care about glasses with cameras in the future.
Rn they are kinda bulky but standalone glasses with even meta quest 2 or 3's capabilities being the size of Xreal glasses would be 100% be the next step.
@@MobikSaysStuff It's not going to take off, mostly due to social reasons. Walking around wearing that stuff makes you look like an oddball, and it paints a bit of a target on you, since people don't like to be filmed in public.
Some people will for sure adopt that tech, but not on a scale that will threaten the smartphone.
@@captainthunderbolt7541 I already mentioned why it won't make you an oddball, especially when they are the size of normal Ray-Bans. Are people with glasses oddballs to you? And no. I assure you, people won't care about cameras the same way they don't care about people filming on streets anymore or giving their data to tiktok or Facebook. People generally don't care after a certain amount of time has passed. They get used to it.
I don't mean to disrespect you but "It won't take off" are the same type if arguments old-timers make whenever new tech advances are made and entered into the consumer market. Not that I'm calling you a boomer.
PS. Quest 2 Sold over 20 million Units. For context that's more than Both Xbox series X and S combined. For tech you claim won't take off, it's going pretty great even though it is in its early adoption phase.
In the early 1980s we bought a Vector Graphic computer for my husband’s business. I had to learn BASIC so I could debug the software we bought since nothing was available to play as written. About the same time, my brother who was working on a master’s degree in computer science got an Apple IIe. You need this context to understand how hard it was to get my head around the concept of cyberspace in William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” which came out around the same time. At 73, this background combined with a lifelong love for science fiction keeps me looking ahead to where technology could go in the future. Thanks for a fascinating episode.
Note: I’m visually “limited” so not all that interested in what happens on the screen but being able to listen to audio content through my phone is a life changer.
Well, depending on how much you used the phone, that could be why your vision is deteriorating.
It's a WEAPON. It has harmed many people & it is a spying device.
Amazing that you for sharing that - I think a lot of people lurk in the comments while the Upload plays often just consuming the audio as the video is way up there offscreen. At least that's what I often do, find myself down here in the FINE PRINT as I call it, searching for more meaning and context or opinions on whatever obscure content the normies have constructed to subside our boredom for another minute at least, hehe. I'm studying this fine print down here as WAAAAY up high at the top there (which i only know usually due to the audio, which i think was my point, hmm) the Upload plays out, often at above realtime playback speeds, such as it's Author Editor has not intended it be depicted while consumed. Just another creation by our YouGlube celebratty has (usually) tried to Frankenstien into someloosely conceptually 'forgiving' playlist on it's "Channel". :)
@@OurSpaceshipEarthwhat?
Why have they missed the big benefit of glasses, 3D. You can see a scene in true 3D or you can see someone in front of you in 3D. The next big thing in phones will be 3D cameras.
I feel the need to mention the smart glasses would also be very useful for those with limited physical abilities. It can provide a higher degree of personal independence, especially as AI capabilities increase. Imagine a person with Parkinsons disease who can summon their AI nurse without ever speaking or getting out of bed.
the next evolution to replace the smartphones will be neuralink. human trials are starting.
Why worry about a cellphone in your pocket or in your hands that you can lose or damage, when it can be hardwired into your brain? xD
Aside from all the possible nefarious and dystopian scenarios that extra processing bio-soldered directly to your brain can bring, the possibilities are pretty cool if the establishment doesnt ultimately intend to hive-mind control us xD
It doesn't matter what you feel. You can't do anything with those "smart glasses". Any attempts to get something like that ended up with them bein banned or not allowed in many spaces.
Yes, I have major hand issues, and Siri is embarrassingly useless as an actual assitant
Smart eye contacts are better
Smart glasses are huge. They will change alot of stuff and generally auhmented reality devices
As someone who hasn't owned a cell phone of any kind I find it interesting how tied to everything they are.
Mark of the Beast?
Man outside of time.@@kevinmunger1842
Smart phones are actually required for my job, because we have an authenticator app that gives us codes for logins. We literally cannot work at this company without one. It's a racket.
I remember watching Power Rangers as a kid and I was awed by their watches, specifically the ability to talk with it.
Look at the capabilities of current smartwatches, it's outrageous!
I always assumed the feature of communicative tech would be watches. I wonder if anyone is working towards that end?
@@robertmcdonald1245 That's what I imagine the next tech step to be; holographic technologies with watches or glasses as their source.
Now we just need a watch to teleport us to the command center to speak with Zordon that is trapped in a time warp.
Can't believe I missed this video when it came out! This was really good, among your best works imo.
Right before the smart phone, the palm pilot was the high-tech personal organizer and rolodex of contacts. Ipod's touch wheel and easy playlist porting made them stand out from the other mp3 players. iPhone put those together with even more. You're absolutely right about the first 100 years and last 10 years in phone development, I never thought about it that way.
It was just another feature they stole from Xerox. Settled out of court for undisclosed amount.
go play with a ten year old phone and say it's the same
@@karlwithak. _Tactile_ means involving touch, _tactical_ means involving tactics. If someone is overly touchy and huggy, that's tactile. If the person they're touching is well-proportioned, then that's tactical ;)
USB to HDMI adapters are like 4 dollars. or you can stream to your TV and get a Bluetooth keyboard. or, and this is going to sound crazy, don't get a crappy flip phone that's going to cut the display ribbon, use a smart phone and type on that because you should be able to text on a phone with a full alphabet after 2003 was left in the past
ipod features were all done better on other mp3 players years before... typical fanboy selective memory
Crazy to think the razor was the phone that had a big enough screen to make me realize how bad I wanted more screen space
If we're going smart glasses, i want the feature where the lens correct themselves so i can have 20/10 vision instead of the reverse (or worse)
No thanks...I hate cell phones as it is and hate AI even more, and I'm a software engineer. I think the Amish may be right.
Being able to have a verbal conversation over the phone with automatic language translation is going to be huge. Sure, there will be a delay with each translation, but being able to speak directly with a business associate across two languages will be fantastic.
I've mastered 6 languages during my youth and uni time. The only language I've ever needed for (international) business has been English. I enjoy speaking them for culture's sake but they're not necessary to do business
@@daarom3472 Same experience here (except the 6 languages part lol). Also related to that, I live in a tourist town, and I find it incredibly endearing when foreign tourist try to speak the local language. I always switch to English for their convenience of course, but perhaps after a small delay : )
And no, I don't want AI becoming a middle man in my everyday human interactions.
@@zoranvujovic998 I think it would be nice to have the option if someone is an individual who is terrible at learning languages.
under display cameras too. being able to look in someones eyes while video chatting still eludes us in 2023. everyone is all just still looking to the side
I have a feeling this may take a bit longer to catch on in the business world than you think. Consider the ramifications of a potential mistranslation for critical (possibly life-or-death, even if indirectly [ordering hospital supplies, for example]) exchanges or high-value transactions. Consider the potential legal fallout due to those circumstances, or even the damage inflicted to a potential exchange by an offensive or misleading mistranslation. Consider that some people may speak in some manner that an auto-translator, however refined, may have difficulty with (volume, accent, vernacular) - or even the potential for a split-second connection error to completely skew the translation. Consider that self-driving cars still can't be trusted to distinguish between a person and a palm tree, and that Google translate still puts out goofy results today, a decade after release.
I have a feeling that most companies will be hesitant to embrace auto-translators until the technology is quite mature, due to the potential (if not likely) speed-bumps and real problems that using it would actually create along the way.
Imagine if AR glasses replaced smartphones overnight - everyone staring straight ahead with a glazed expression instead of down at their phone. It's stuff of nightmares. I still use my Motorola Razr V3 - you can still get new batteries for them. I like to daydream and don't want to be a zombie like that
i don’t imagine it would be over night. took forever for the internet to become useful and practical.
i’m sure when we get the smallest and most practical ‘spatial computers’ they’ll finally kill off the smart phone
I agree, the smartphone was popular because it solved a bunch of big issues. From now on it's just a matter of "how far can we push it" instead of solving a problem. You need to know when to stop
LOL... Immediately my mind went to the crowded streets of NYC, all those people staring straight ahead totally locked in! OVERNIGHT!!! Imagine being the Foreigner (who didn't get the memo) visiting the states for the Very first time arriving on the night just before, then the look on their faces when they wake up the next morning! "Whoaaa...wtf, wait... what... where...Ohhh God!!!!🥺😲😱
It's so good to sit with your thoughts, rather than always being glued to a screen.
SmartWstches is where I drew the line. It is far too much and still won't do what we actually want off it.
boomer nightmares = everyone is using a piece of technology that you don't understand
Having a clear display is equivalent to it's analogue, clear paper. Kinda of defeats it's purpose.
If smart glasses become socially acceptable, that would spell the end of smartphones in their current form. I could see them becoming smaller, screenless, and meant to live in a purse or pocket for the whole day. Computers that travel around with is are here to stay though. For better or for worse.
I wonder why your comments shows as being posted "3 days ago".... hmm weird.
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Remember when, for some stupid reason, people thought we'd have computer hardware sewn into our clothes?
I'm not the right target for future tech (I still have a flip phone) but I think your end point is right on Joe, we like the distractions they give us. My laptop and tablet would be the ones to confirm this in my case.
I used to be a technophile, had every new device. Now I am luddite and outside of a few spaces avoid tech when ever possible. But I am still curious so I end up here watching Joe
As a disabled person I am very excited in the new ways tech might let me explore from home. It is not always about distractions
@@Memento_Mori_Morals yes this tech for this use is amazing. For the rest of us our privacy is being sold to power creations like this.
Purpose built tech with out the motive of profits to assist people in living their best lives, that is the future I want to see.
I always liked how the flip phone protected its own screen while it was in your pocket or bag, always seemed like a step back to me having the screen exposed all the time on something you carry about
Exactly... and of course it's not like fashion companies started adding smartphone sized pockets to clothes when they arrived, so where do you store the stupid things without trashing them??
@@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV Well you don't have to carry it in the pocket where you hold your keys and rocks and leaky vials of acid and so forth.
@@curiousabout1 Unfortunately most of my pockets fold in half when I sit down, so a smartphone would just go crunch!
It's not a major inconvenience, I don't actually have a use case for a smartphone anyway, but I enjoy talking about the lack of innovation in the fashion industry, especially around friends who work in the fashion industry! :D
I think Samsung have got flip-phones that fold out into a large screen now, which is far more practical.... not that I'll be buying one...
But then how do you sell the screen protectors and phone cases? Do you want to put all those workers out on the street??? Shame on you.
The only reason the smartphone was such a huge leap in tech is because the aliens who work with the government allowed to us have it. Humans couldn't possibly mess up life with such a low tech device, they said. Humans: Hold my beer.
“Get that camera out of my face”
With everything we talk about legislating these days, Why isn’t there any legislation prohibiting people from making devices that violate your privacy by shoving a camera in your face without your permission?
while watching this the first thing i thought of was the "hammer". first we used rocks and sticks. version 2.0 was putting the rock on the stick. the next major contribution (ver 3.0) was making a metal (heavier and less prone to damage) head for the stick and later added a claw to opposite end of the striking end. any other improvement after that was just version 3.X) like plastic or fiber handels, rubber grips, color. etc. Basically, there will be other inventions based on the hammer but hammer 3.X is here to stay.
Now we have Tears of the Kingdom on Switch, so you can put the rock on the stick.
What about 4. 0
What I'm interested in is the potential for vision correction/augmentation. As I've had to adapt to progressive bifocals in my 50s, its very clear to me how viewing things at specific distances strains my eyes differently. So a system that shows virtual images at the 'perfect' distance for clarity without strain would be great. If it additionally has the ability to replace what I"d see with a clarified view correcting my vision problems, that would be a game changer for myself and so many people. I wonder if such systems could even be used to provide early correction so issues that pop up as a child grows can be minimized early.
Agreed. And then you'll see software updates so you can't see what you eye manufacturers don't want you to see.
I hadn't thought of that. It's an interesting idea.
Sounds like you're advocating for a phone company to be the middle man between you and reality. Literally telling you what you're looking at and showing you what THEY want you to see ... Scary stuff.
That's an interesting thought. I stopped wearing contact lenses in my 30s because I had to wear readers for the computer and there was a lot of eyestrain. Something like that would be good. Much reduction in eyestrain for now, but apparently running around outside without a low level nearsightedness (myopia) prescription slows the progression.
I think this points in the right direction. There's so much consumer technology that nobody really cares (as in the 90s, 00s or 10s were people though tech could change the world, we know now that it doesnt), the real interest is in enhancing the body, or regaining health or lifespan, or simply beauty, thats were i'd make tech predictions.
As an old guy, I certainly remember the days before cell phones and even the internet (btw I had one of the first commercial websites in the world). I really dislike having to carry around a phone all the time, and these days I don't. The screens crack, I've had them get wet and fail, losing data, etc. I'm actually opening an r/c car racing business, where kids can have fun together in the real world, as I believe that is missing and needs a 'comeback'. I always thought the glasses would be better than a phone, but nope, and headsets are the last thing I'd want. I think earbuds might be the way forward.
Ear buds are really be for your hearing.
Remember slot car racing? I miss doing that with my dad.
More power to ya man, I think kids need a better link to the real world. It's hard enough getting adults to go outside these days...unless they have kids, in which case parents will happily leave the house if it means someone else has to watch their toddler for an hour.
Speaking of getting kids interested: trampoline parks are a huge thing in my area. It would be a good idea to give the older kids something to do and maybe guide them into STEM if they can make their own RC cars. Same for video games--there have been SEVERAL indie games that implement some rudimentary programming interface to run an army of robots. Autonauts is a cute game that does this very well. LEGO has technic for those more hardware-focused kids. Basically, (purchased) RC cars are an expensive hobby to buy into but the parents are more likely to bite if you say STEM followed by random 6 figure salaries.
Its kinda hard to create a shiny new device that no one has ever seen before these days so they stick with the menial upgrades like a single button on the new phone that everyone goes crazy for and shells out $1k+
One thing you didn't mention is smartphones getting thinner. And ultra-foldable. You could have a smartphone that's quite small be then opens up bigger and bigger as you like. Another possibility is real-time image projection giving you the impression that you are talking to your friend right there with you. That'd save a lot of travel time around the world.
I don't travel around the world to talk to people. I travel to get the hell away from them.
The world is getting quite restricted into zones though.
The internet is boxing areas away from the rest of the wide world, similar to internet in China.
Geolocation restrictions will mean we either keep traveling or have to network and work with people on the same internet node as you.
@robertcapek2425 It's bad enough having them contact you whenever they want. Imagine having to virtually see them and always be ready to be seen.
iPhone 5 was 7.4mm and iPhone 15 is 7.6mm - smart phones are not getting thinner - not in the last 10+ years.
We've already reached the limit of screen area to thickness ratio.
For rigid body phones like we have now, you cannot physically make the phones any thinner without compromising the structural integrity.
Nobody wants a phone which will snap in half when you sit on it.
No.
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I feel like being that guy today. Writing-wise: nearly all phones ever are rectangles, not squares)))
Samantha Bee?
Are you gay? Mate?
Do you wear a mask still??
I shared this with them. 😊
Thanks!
which your should be you're? they all look correct to me? like wtf? @@jabzilla21
I remember when you could have the same phone for 30 years and it would still work 😂 does that make me old?
what era are you thinking of..?
In UK, we only started using touch-tone in the late 80s or early 90s. We started to get GSM / SMS portable chocolate bar sized phones in the mid to late 90s, along with tapeless ansa-fones. (UK never took up pagers like the USA or Eastern markets) Then MMS/email/dial-up on the go from around 2004-05, then the feature phones and smartphones started to be introduced. The rectangular touch-screen pocket computers haven't really changed, as Joe said, since after 2009/10. it's been a fascinating journey.
I mean, if you trade off all of the advantages of a smart phone. You could just use a brick phone. 10 years at the very least.
Yes, you were tethered by wires ...
I grew up with a wall mounted olive green ITT rotary phone in the kitchen. We put a long cord on it so we could use it anywhere in the kitchen or in most of the adjacent living room. We eventually "upgraded" to a GTE cordless with a retractable antenna, but continued to use the old ITT phone because the sound was so much clearer. Plus, you could use the ITT phone during a power outage.
...I'm probably getting old, too.
I saw that in a museum - it wasn’t a phone, it was a speaker + mic, and the only game it played was an ancient version of Snake where a twisty cable had to be uncoiled every 5 calls or so.
Must have had a bad battery, it was permanently plugged into the wall
As someone born in '02, I only vaguely remember the world before smartphones. It's surreal to think those born a few years later don't remember it at all.
I tend to avoid the people who call all smartphones "iphones."
I tend to avoid people who use iphones
Agree.😂
Apple didn't invest the hardware or many of the other parts of the smartphone like the touchscreen, etc. Those are some of the myths Joe forget to actually check.
Absolutely
Ughhh!!!
Also, I've been using computers for 40 years and I'm an audio engineer. I'm used to 3 screens, tons of information in my face and a good interface.
Android is great and customisable.
Apple is awful. It's AWFUL. People just get "used to it" but it's not intuitive. It's weird people switching to android try to do the weirdest swipes and gestures when the button is a simple click on the screen.
I'll never like Apple.
I'm forced to use Logic on OSX sometimes and it's not quick or efficient. It's bloated, unintuitive and it doesn't work how you expect, you just get "used to it".
The closest, and pretty much most accurate depiction of a smart phone in Sci-fi is The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, and I've always felt how underrated this concept was in sci-fi, I think this might be attributed to that those novels are more comedic than anything
The _Guide_ isn't anything like a smart phone. It's Wikipedia in a tablet. It doesn't run apps, it doesn't provide communications... it doesn't even have a calculator function. It's a searchable database of crowdsourced information of dubious accuracy.
@@DamnedSilly quite right
I like the tech in Dune. Not the new one. It’s like microfish that animates and has all this data stored in thin sheets of plastic.
It’s read only.
But the information is very nicely displayed and the talking voice is nice to listen to.
I’m on about David Lynch’s Dune btw, or the novel.
That’s like the year 150,000. So they keep technology at a distance. That is the law of the universe.
Only the twisted Tle’Laxue have found a loophole. It’s the most dystopia vision of a future imaginable on their planet.
But their technology changes the universe due to it’s amazing abilities.
@@DamnedSilly "It's a searchable database of crowdsourced information of dubious accuracy."
That sounds a lot like ChatGPT.
I can imagine the SciFi AR contact lenses becoming a thing and have it wirelessly connected with a device in your pocket or something. Honestly I can now understand how older generations felt almost afraid of the new technology that I'm so familiar with. Technological advancement isn't a linear progression its exponential. 😬
I was thinking along the same lines. You also have neuralink. Between the 2 I think the future will be augmented reality with ads where ever you go. Social credit scores could become an issue with that. Imagine having a number that displays over everyone's head that shows how they rank in life. Scary stuff.
@@kylemiller1984 the reality in china combined with CP2077
"it's a dopamine delivery device"LOL I love that, Joe!
I'm surprised you didn't mention foldables here. The most I use my tablet for is reading comic books and the occasional book. Just making these two products one makes sense. I have more space for when I want to watch TH-cam or whatnot then have a decent sized phone when I dont need the extra screen.
I jumped on with the fold 5 about a month ago, and tbh I absolutely love it. The only drawback I've seen so far is that the flexible screen seems to be a bit more fragile (if you poke it too hard with something like the s pen you can kill pixels) so you need to be a bit more careful with it
Foldable phones will not replace smartphone,it will def not be the next thing for sure .
He's a sheep. He'll say apple invented it in 15 years 😂
@@Omar-kl3xpit'll be a hybrid of phone and tablet, it'll get there a few years from now
I want one but tbh it'll always have drawbacks for a while longer.
Battery size, weight, glass quality, last years snapdragon etc, camera etc...
It's cool but it would have to be really light and battery effecient as a regular phone.
I would have loved to see the way AI assistants are depicted in the movie Her -- it's really fascinating, the way technology is tactile but falls into the background too. Also, it would be interesting to analyze the roles of watches right now. I often leave home without my phone, and having a local AI assistant on your wrist is pretty amazing.
I hate the fact I can't blast on a full size keyboard, and mouse-click away accurately on my smartphone. There's no chance I'll ever use a smartwatch, other than for sports.
I hate the fact that I can barely step outside without my phone.
@ronellelkayam7257 what if you had AR glasses to see a screen on front of you, and a bracelet/watch on each wrist could read the electrical impulses as you ghost type in front of you
@@rowshambow That wouldn't be a smartwatch, but rather a sensor with no (meaningful) display. Would I carry the sensors and glasses around instead of a smartphone? Only if they're small and light enough, battery lasts long enough, and they offer same viewing quality as a smartphone from 1ft away (smartphone) from face.
I think it's going to be a long while before smartphones fade out. It's a terrific device for checking on information, both personal and general. It's a fantastic portable navigation tool. If you're not into the XL size, it remains very portable and easy to manage. It's STILL needing more battery improvements, though. With lower power consumption screens on the way and more reliable, durable, longer charge capable batteries also coming up, I think the smartphone has a good runway of time left.
Yeah, if there is gonna be a revolution in terms of wearables, it will 100% be about _extending_ the smartphone rather than replacing it. The only real success in this space is the smartwatch after all, and that's basically just a summary view of what you'd see on your phone.
100% Disagree. A cpl of govts are major funders in wearable tech. They want/need real time surveillance (and sanction) capabilities. 👮
@@newagain9964governments can do whatever they like, but people choose what products they buy at the end of the day
They will put a chip in your brain and a smart micro speaker in your ear. Its just around the corner.
How long ago were knives invented? No one knows, of course. But we still use knives today because they have useful functions. We just have better knives. It's called mature technology, and it exists everywhere.
I see the 'next generation' of smart tech going in two directions - contact lenses, or straight up implants, which will receive a lot more push back and discomfort, but eventually will win out. I'm 43 right now, but I see either option being a reality before I retire.
exactly, glasses are still to clunky and definitely aren't the "final" form of any wearable AR tech
I can't imagine how big a leap in science would be needed for implants or contacts
I think it'll be both. There's plenty of people willing to do implants, but the average person may just want basic features. I imagine it'll be treated like computer hardware. The common, mass produced, basic hardware is relatively cheap, but if you want the best gaming computer with your own storage and hosting server to play with friends, and maybe even a racing rig because you love to race, THAT will break the bank. If you want normal AR features, the lenses are for you... if you want to have infrared vision or, say, a module to expand your mental processing, you pay much more.
I agree with this statement. Just look how much technology advanced over the last 100 years. Now think about how far technology will advance in 100 more years from now.
Technological body modification is definitely a possibility, but that is going to open up a can of worms. Just imagine people hacking into other peoples' implants.
Same age same opinion 😊