Tech is so boring nowadays
I remember the awe when I first used Google street view, saw the iPhone announcement "It's an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator", sent an email to my friend across the world, played Battlefield 3 on ultra graphics, did a video call on my phone. What happened to tech nowadays? Best we have is the meta verse cringe? ChatGPT is cool I admit that but it's ultimately a tech demo rather than an actual product I'll use regularly. It seems like tech nowadays is all about trying to sell you shit and automate things that were perfectly fine done manually like driving. The tech industry is dead!
TikTok warps the mind
The meta verse concept might be cringe but imo the closest thing on the horizon for the wow effect you described are VR and AR
VR/AR has been in the “tech demo” stage for almost a decade now and still shows no realistic path to a real mass market usage case. People buy an Oculus Quest and then it sits on the shelf forever after the first couple of weeks.
I couldn't stop smiling when I first tried AR. It's been so long since I felt a really "new" type of experience. That said, the hardware is still super far, I doubt we'll have any solid consumer AR in the next 10 years.
Bro are you Egyptian you can read hieroglyphics???
Yup.
I think we can all agree the meta verse is cringe, but that’s because we don’t fully understand what it will look like. You think Zuck & others are betting everything on people wearing goggles all day? I don’t think so.
Next big thing wil be AI. But it will happen gradually so you won't notice the progress on day to day basis. But few years down the line, we will get there. Self driving cars have potential to revolutionize the public transport and ride sharing.
Self driving cars have the potential to revolutionize more than just public transportation and ride sharing. Just like cell phone tech (cameras, batteries, miniaturization) helped create drones, the tech needed to create self-driving cars will quickly escape cars. If you have self driving vehicles, why would these vehicles need to be large enough for a person? A self-driving vehicle could bring you a pizza, groceries, walk your dog, etc…
“Revolutionize” is a bit of a stretch. Self driving cars are designed for ride sharing companies like Uber, not direct to consumer. You’ll still pull your phone out of your pocket, call a ride, and be taken to your destination. The lack of a driver really doesn’t change much for the rider.
I wont be impressed again until we can teleport.
Why is no one working on this? Like seriously?
Do you realize when you teleport that you are cloned and your old self ceases to exist? Your new clone continues on and steals your life. This fine print isn’t told to you until you try it out.
It's difficult to appreciate the latest tech as its happening in the present. There's lots of interesting tech work going on right now in AI, Graphics, and cloud computing: Stable diffusion, LLMs like GPT, Nerf (Neural Radiance Fields), DLSS, Real time Ray tracing, auto scaling via serverless computing etc. Imagine telling someone 20 years ago that you could describe any random scene and an AI will be able to generate a photo realistic render of this scene! They wouldn't believe you at all.
It’s all relative. Part of it is current limitations of hardware I think. I’m sure they’ll be another tech “Revolution” in a few decades
It will be the ticket to Mars
And food 3d printers becoming a home essential in place of inductions