One of the great questions I got on my WordPress blog, is why are you always trying to connect the thing to your iPhone. It is a great question, but the answer doesn’t fit in a comment. It is much longer, and so it is my post today. The first part of that question is the phone. I know many folks that read my posts do not use their phone for much beyond talking to people and pictures. I also know that some authors here have noticed the trend of younger people using their phone more. But for me is more to the middle. I am not using the phone to hide from people. I also use the phone for more than talking and photos. If I can avoid it, I still don’t use my cell phone for cameras, often.
What I like to do however is understand the art of the possible. What can be connected to phones? The first thing is weather stations. People always ask me why. I tell them that weather forecasting systems look at 100, 200 and 500-mile blocks of the area. But within each of those blocks, there is significant variance. If it is raining in Washington DC, but not in Maryland, it is going to be hotter in the summer in Maryland. Most of the time, the DC temperature is hotter; there is a lot more concrete in Downtown DC. The other interesting thing about the connected cellphone is the reality of data. I know, again that many people are concerned with the rate of cell phone use. But, I also know in our house it has become a great tool.
The phrase proves it, becomes an internet search. Now we’ve gone one step beyond that and said “show two valid sources.”
The other reality of connecting things to your cell phone is the future. I suspect, this is wholly my opinion, that in the future there won’t be desktops and laptops the way there are today. I suspect what will happen is your phone becomes your initial processor. Now the problem with using a phone in that scenario is that it loses phone functionality. So what happened, again my opinion, is you would plug your phone into a docking station. That station would have a coprocessor, a graphics processor and additional memory. You would most likely have one at home and one in the office. The only thing you would carry is that cellular phone. That is the ultimate reason why I try to connect as much as possible to my phone now!
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Question of
Would you like a world where all you had to carry was a cell phone?
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Yes
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No
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does that idea frighten you?
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Yes
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No
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when someone meets you and looks at their phone right away is that frustrating?
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Yes
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No
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Let me see…could a phone carry an overnight stuff? What about powder, hand cream and lip balm? How about my passport?
I like the convenience of my phone but I hope people will be able to learn to not use it as extension of our limbs ?
yes on the passport in the future, no on the personal items.
now smart suitcases are already on the market.
I do not like smartphones I do not even have WhatsApp, I only have Instagram. Not having a smartphone makes you free. Sometimes they are annoying and tiring.
That is certainly an oft-expressed view. I suspect somewhere in the middle is the real answer though.
Yes, you are right, I am very strange
certainly you are not in the “norm” but I wouldn’t say strange! There are actually many others here that do not use cell phones!
a smart home where the walls could double as screens would be interesting
i believe that is possible now, just very very expensive.
not talking about monitors imbedded in the walls, talking about smart walls which would be able to display images. smart wallpaper?
yes, the concept of rollable, or flat monitors. They are available today. They are roughly 12-15 times thicker than normal wallpaper and cost a metric crap ton of money.
now I’m thinking smart paint
well smart paint, sometimes called idea paint turns your wall into a whiteboard.
🙂
but I don’t want to be the one tagging my walls. I want the house to display things IRT
IRT paint is probably 40 or 50 years off.
I suspect wallpaper is more likely just to have a place to house the solid state electronics…
what the? I told you to buy the HD paint! I can’t use this low rez paint indoors- what were you thinking?!?
wow future dad joke that is very impressive!
Remember, you can only use rollers with the HD paint. Brushes leave streaks on your screen viewing!
unless it is nanotech, and can reconfigure on demand. or it could be aerosol
Well now I hadn’t thought of that.
the connection required to generate the signal – it could be sprayed on. You would need a steady hand though.
(once it dries holes look bad)!
nanotech should be able to reconfigure and fix those issues. if designed to do so…
well that is ruining my storyline.
hey, why are there holes in your tv screen?
It was a dark and stormy night
The bud was cold
the aerosol can was aimed
but the result of the bud was what you see!
but Doc Frost chose the wall less watched
The cell phone is not just for communication and some people want it to be a utility gadget.
i do!!! I suspect it is going to be more and more that way in the future.
I only have a phone for picture and phone use only, my friend … I don’t deal with other applications
I figured pal, your phone is a phone and sometimes a camera!
Right … just this and nothing else, dear friend
I don’t have a phone. But come to think of it, I’ve never met a person who looked at their phone right away after meeting me. I think my face was too captivating. LOL.
It is a big Millenial thing, at least that is what it appears to be.
First of all, I spend a lot of time at home. I prefer my laptop. I don’t want to ever watch a movie or stream anything on my phone.
i can understand that. I suspect what will slowly occur is the integration of your phone, TV and internet into a unified easy to use system!