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Gtuf1 t1_j220vx9 wrote

Phones will be replaced by visors with AR built in. The visors will link to our work and home computers and be able to share info… OS operated through hand swiping and finger mechanics.

Suburbs will be more crowded than before. Advertisements will be everywhere, viewable through the visors. People will be able to sell their hyperspace (AR equivalent of real world space) as ad space, accessible only through the visors.

Cars will all be electric. No more gas stations.

Fewer public spaces for big crowds. Fewer movie theaters, supermarkets, etc.

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D2G23 t1_j227dc5 wrote

You betting big on the visor market?

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nuclearsalt t1_j22i0vk wrote

Despite references to current tech, this viewpoint feels like it was written in 1950, forget 2050.

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Gtuf1 t1_j23rvod wrote

The world doesn’t move as quickly as people would like to think. The original iPhone came out in 2007, just 14 years ago. Before that, people weren’t so connected despite the internet being around for 14 years at that point.

2050 is just 27 years away. Funny how my realistic predictions got voted down as if people are expecting flying cars and teleportation by 2050. Laughable.

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_basic_bitch t1_j24yteq wrote

Maybe not visors as we think of them today, like the big clear plastic things that old ladies wear to go speed walking. Maybe more like something that attaches to one temple or ear and wraps around to hold a transparent or semi-transparent screen in front of one eye-eventually could be controlled via eye movements and attached via magnet, but initially would br run by finger movements, or maybe like the top part of sunglasses (think like the futuristic looking sunnies yhat Kim K is a fan of, if you are a fashion girl), but without having the frames and lenses, just a little fold down screen on one side, probably controlled via finger movements. maybe something that is worn on the wrist like in the show upload or even on the finger like a ring is a more likely intermediary step, controlled with finger movements. Eventually if we continue on the same path we are on now eventually we will move towards having some sort of device installed directly so that we are always connected, never lose our phones, can use our brains to run our devices, and, most importantly to the corporations thay sell the software to us, pay to use them on a subscription model.

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