Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones 220
Trio writes "What will cellphones look like in in future? silicon.com explores five future characteristics that could shape tomorrow's phones — from a wearable prototype such as MIT's SixthSense device which projects mobile data into the user's world, to a mobile that mixes the real and the virtual by using holographic telepresence. So far, so futuristic, but one question remains: will there be enough spectrum to support all this wireless communication?"
In the year 3000, (Score:2, Funny)
Cell phones will have a subvocal mode so that people won't broadcast their moronic chatterings into others' ears like I'm broadcasting my moronic chatterings into your faces.
-- Ethanol-fueled
meh... (Score:2, Funny)
What I want is a phone that works telepathically. In fact, screw the phone, I'll take the telepathy. :P
Re:a REAL cellphone (Score:5, Funny)
Features, and lots of them! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:meh... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Just to add a bit of dystopia to the thread... (Score:1, Funny)
And when it all comes down, when it all falls down about us, all that will be left in the wreckage of our civilization is a single tiny little black oblong going 'diddle-dee-dee-diddle-dee-dee-deeeee'. And there'll be nobody to answer it. "
Wait, hang on... then who is CALLING the phone? Ghosts? Man, that's freaky.
Seriously though, that's a pretty over-exagerrated scenario. I don't think we have have to go so far as to predict the end of civilization with only a single phone surviving.
There'll be at least four or five.
Really, while it's true that we lose something in terms of body language and face-to-face contact we're also gaining things all the time - look at the article in question. Sooner or later, unpopular as video phones have been, we'll still find ways to interact in more ways than just voice.
Thats not the real question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:a REAL cellphone (Score:5, Funny)
That reminds me of one of the few cell phone commercials I've liked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7x1aic74Mg [youtube.com]
My cell phone comes with crime deterrent.
Re:Spectrum? Limitless, except for the State... (Score:2, Funny)
No, he is an actual libertarian ideologue.
Re:Fun, but pointless (Score:3, Funny)
Well sir, clearly we will communicate with little boxes that ahve miniature telegraphs inside. Why I heard of a gentleman on the East that did wireless telegraph! amazing indeed!
Re:Fun, but pointless (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SixthSense (Score:3, Funny)
Well I imagine there was a time when this argument was made about the pocket watch. I mean who wants to walk around to clock in their pocket. And what's this? You want to put in on my wrist?! That will never be fashionable!
Re:Just to add a bit of dystopia to the thread... (Score:2, Funny)
I initially read it as "Will Smith" and was expecting something like
"Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there"
Re:Spectrum? Limitless, except for the State... (Score:2, Funny)
>>I don't have a TV at home, so the TV spectrum is useless. I don't listen to radio in the car, >>so radio spectrum is useless. So much that we do today would be better suited to a HUGE amount >>of spectrum divvied up and utilized by every device that could hop frequencies as needed to >>find a clean channel, that could raise power needs when a tower is far but drop them >>significantly when towers are near.
WTF?? So you think that if you turn of the radio on the car or the TV set in your house the EM spectrum utilized by broadcasters is free until you turn the radio or TV on? Oh boy.