Future of technology - what you should count on driving the next generation

[Skeptic]

There's a ton of new tech coming and just like your smartphone and numerous gadgetry and connected devices you won't get far without it. Tech pioneers are excited with their self driving cars, nano-machines and quantum computers, but what are we really going to be using on a common massive scale? First in order is an even further synched and connected phone and internet experience than we already use right now in 2018. Virtual reality, augmented reality, cyborg brain chips, hand tracking technology. All these new refined technologies are getting rushed to production to 'enhance' everyone's connectedness. What are these technologies and how are we using them?

Augmented Reality (AR)

aug·men·ted re·al·i·ty
noun
a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

https://www.realitytechnologies.com/augmented-reality/

https://www.apple.com/ios/augmented-reality/

Brain Chips

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffstibel/2017/07/10/hacking-the-brain/amp/

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/406934/a-brain-chip-to-control-paralyzed-limbs

https://www.sputniknews.com/amp/military/201809071067847857-Brain-Chip-Fly-Drone-Swarm-Telepathically/

Hand Tracking

https://next.reality.news/news/former-microsoft-engineers-achieve-best-hand-tracking-capabilities-weve-seen-for-ar-0182780/

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-claims-breakthrough-in-hand-tracking-accuracy

Virtual Reality (VR)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2016/10/17/5-ways-virtual-reality-will-change-the-world

https://www.livescience.com/53392-virtual-reality-tech-uses-beyond-gaming.html

Artificial Intelligence

Last but not least we got AI looming on the horizon and it isn't difficult to see what the doomsayers are complaining about. Many well known people are apprehensive about AI and aren't too happy about it, but its coming whether you like it or not.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5120441/amp/Mind-control-AI-chips-alter-persons-moods.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertadams/2017/01/10/10-powerful-examples-of-artificial-intelligence-in-use-today

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ai/amp

In closing it can be easy to tell where all these technologies are going to take us and how easily they can be crosshatched and amalgamated. What I think will get everyone excited is ditching their handheld smartphones for AR glasses with implemented handtracking. Perhaps a smartwatch with a projected screen and who knows what else. These things aren't going to be cheap either and anyone who is anyone is going to need them.

[roamer_1]

Look into the eye of the dragon and despair.

[massadvj]

Being a college professor of marketing, I can appreciate all of the wondrous things these new technologies will do.  But will they also continue to alienate us from each other with their short-term bursts of cotton candy to our pathetically inadequate brains? The older I get the more I see the fallacy of technology.

I suggest that if you really want to enjoy life grab your real world spouse by the hand and take your actual 3 dimensional dog for a long walk in the woods.  There is no virtual experience that can replace it.