I was just thinking about this earlier today. When do you think television sets as we know them today will become obsolete?
Anyone care to make a prediction?
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Depends on how you define "as we know them".
I think there will be a screen that all the furniture gets pointed towards in my lifetime. Beyond that, who cares?
Well Trek said that TV becomes obsolete around the mid 21st Century. I'm just trying to imagine what could replace screens as we know them
Short of having cheap 3D Holography in your house projected so that you can watch the show from any angle.
That I don't see happening any time soon, so I'm thinking it's not going to happen until we have Non-Interactive 3D Volumetric Holographics that you can walk around.
Apple Vision Pro sales surge imminent!
"Television" could be defined as shows that have been written by professional writers, made in a studio/location, and/or animated. I'm not sure what the inference was in Trek, but could they have meant the medium as opposed to the technology?
We are probably on the cusp of hyper-individualised entertainment thanks to AI. I've been messing about with various different sites, making clips of Star Trek or Doctor Who, and the realism is quite astounding in some cases. Gone are the days of Will Smith awkwardly scoffing spaghetti, that's for sure!
By the 2050s, I'm expecting people to key in information like the Enterprise D crew on a holodeck, and watch a tailor-made episode of their favourite show. However, screens may still play an important role for the most part.
"Television" could be defined as shows that have been written by professional writers, made in a studio/location, and/or animated. I'm not sure what the inference was in Trek, but could they have meant the medium as opposed to the technology?
We are probably on the cusp of hyper-individualised entertainment thanks to AI. I've been messing about with various different sites, making clips of Star Trek or Doctor Who, and the realism is quite astounding in some cases. Gone are the days of Will Smith awkwardly scoffing spaghetti, that's for sure!
By the 2050s, I'm expecting people to key in information like the Enterprise D crew on a holodeck, and watch a tailor-made episode of their favourite show. However, screens may still play an important role for the most part.
Apple Vision Pro sales surge imminent!
"Television" could be defined as shows that have been written by professional writers, made in a studio/location, and/or animated. I'm not sure what the inference was in Trek, but could they have meant the medium as opposed to the technology?
We are probably on the cusp of hyper-individualised entertainment thanks to AI. I've been messing about with various different sites, making clips of Star Trek or Doctor Who, and the realism is quite astounding in some cases. Gone are the days of Will Smith awkwardly scoffing spaghetti, that's for sure!
By the 2050s, I'm expecting people to key in information like the Enterprise D crew on a holodeck, and watch a tailor-made episode of their favourite show. However, screens may still play an important role for the most part.
That's an idea that has been floating about for years.
Back in the late 90s I had a game called "in the 1st degree" which was a live action game using QuickTime VR. It had live actors and scenes, multiple choices and endings too.
I bought a book of solutions for the game (yes there were multiple solutions) written by the makers of the game.
In the book they talk about their original idea which was a fully user controlled movie. Here's how it would work.
You create all of your cast and characters.
Using a set of sliders you create their moods and personalities.
You create the setting and environment for them again using a set of sliders for different values.
You hit the button to create your movie and in a few minutes the finished item is ready to watch.
That was their original hope for this kind of game in the future.
The format of television, not the screen.
I just wish free to air TV would just die I hardly watch any, OK maybe not literally die but I don't see any value in it unless you have no other alternative for entertainment / information. It's the quality or lack of quality in free to air programming I guess.
What about political predictions?
Depends how far ahead you wish to go. Feel free to open a new thread about that.
Conventional screens will be unnecessary when smart projective contact lenses become ubiquitous allowing traditional viewing, augmented reality and virtual reality. The technology is described in Rainbows End (2006) by Vernor Vinge, although A C Clarke implied something similar in The City and the Stars (1956). Direct neural implants will follow at some stage. An example would be the wireheads in The Ringworld Engineers (1979) by Larry Niven. There might well be earlier examples in SF literature.
Much of the programming might also be generated by AI, personally tailored to the viewer.
However, TVs and TV broadcasting are unlikely to disappear as long as money can be made or propaganda needs to be dispersed. Any new technology is likely to be co-opted by commercial and political interests.
Much of the programming might also be generated by AI, personally tailored to the viewer.
However, TVs and TV broadcasting are unlikely to disappear as long as money can be made or propaganda needs to be dispersed. Any new technology is likely to be co-opted by commercial and political interests.
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Aloy's focus in the horizon games is very much like this sticking on the side of your head and giving you an augmented view of the world around you.
I wasn't aware of the Focus technology, but it sounds like it uses a combination of AI and external neural control (possibly using room-temperature superconducting quantum interference sensors and transcranial electromagnetic stimulation). Never heard of Horizon until now.
They're really good games there are two Horizon Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West
Really not my thing at my age.
Well that's fair enough
Well NASA just launched a probe to Europa, only no hot blonde onboard called Renee.
I thought if Picard S2 wgen that news broke
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