Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 40 minutes later[^][v]#284,278
They'll just get thinner and faster and have higher resolution screens. We have the technology for wrist phones now (you can buy them on Amazon, actually) but they haven't caught on.
HaikerensGuide !10147STMWU joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 10 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^][v]#284,279
Maybe a rediscovery of physical buttons?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 55 minutes after the original post[^][v]#284,280
@previous (HaikerensGuide !10147STMWU)
QWERTY keyboards still exist for mobiles and will continue to exist for mobiles.
green !6PPj7P5Iag joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 10 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#284,399
I still use my phone with 8 keys for the alphabet for internet, texting and everything.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#284,410
Speech to text will be the future. Texting is too efficient, but currently requires visual and tactile engagement, which is just too distracting when driving or multitasking. A wholly auditory interface would solve this problem, at which point touchscreens will be redundant and things like wristwatch phones might actually have a chance.
brie !hW6clEMVuQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 6 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#284,412
@previous (E)
Swype is pretty damn good and quick enough for a lot of situations where you are 'multi-tasking', I think technology will head in that direction (predictive text entry) for a while and then be replaced by a brain-computer interface.
speech to text is super-iffy and has pretty heavy privacy implications, it's getting a bit better with all the effort being thrown at the problem but it's not quite there yet... my bet is staying on manual text input then eventually brainwaves to text.
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Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 13 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,685
@284,410 (E) > wholly auditory interface would solve this problem
Yeah, it's called a phone call
Rainbow !DASHqGnDdc joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,686
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,724
@284,685 (Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4)
Whatever guy. Texting is popular because it's far more efficient than talking on the phone. People on phone calls blab on and on about shit nobody gives a fuck about but them. Texting forces them to get the point immediately.
Phone calls are stupid. Voicemail is even worse.
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cat !LSD69pSotU joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 31 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,729
> Nanorobotic biochip brain implant?
I was thinking about how awesome this would be to have a computer in your brain. It'd connect to a remote computer and use your eyes as a display and everything.
cat !LSD69pSotU double-posted this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,731
squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 53 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,753
just likr they are now, but in space
Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 replied with this 14 years ago, 36 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,757
@284,724 (E)
You don't get it do you? You're the one who suggested a completely auditory interface. So you talk, and it's converted to a text message. That text message is sent to the other person, and converted to speech so that they don't have to look at their phone. That person then talks so they don't have to type, and their speech in converted to a text message. Your phone receives the text message, and it's converted to speech so that you on't have to look at your phone. Do you see what the fuck is going on here? You're just having a phone call with each other in Stephen Hawking voices.
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 43 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#284,767
@previous (Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4)
Exactly. But as the technology of adaptive software progresses, it will become possible for each of us to use a sort of personalized shorthand for often repeated phrases which can be automatically translated into the full phrase at the other end. This allows a full conversation with less input and requires less data to be transmitted since text requires much less bandwidth.
It's the same basic principle that powers the internet. Use processing power at the transmitting end to break the data into smaller packets for transmission and let the computer processing power at the receiving end reassemble them into the original form.
Anonymous E double-posted this 14 years ago, 1 day later, 3 days after the original post[^][v]#285,115
@284,737 (dw !AIy/L67q.s)
I say it that way as I believe it to be an inevitable certainty. There are simply far too many severe accidents from phone use while driving and this number is growing exponentially. Statistically, it's where drinking and driving was in the early 80's. Ultimately laws will prohibit even holding a phone while driving.
People who argue the political support isn't there since everyone uses their phone while driving underestimate the political clout of insurance companies. Who are already sinking big money into political action on this issue.