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What will "the next big thing" be?

I'd say self-driving cars but that's too easy.  How about holographic virtual reality interactive television?  What do you say?

Posted - March 11, 2017
Tag : modern technology

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  • 19937
    If it won't work on my almost 40 year old Zenith TV, I probably won't be using it.
      March 11, 2017 7:52 PM MST
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  • 4D printing.
      March 11, 2017 8:09 PM MST
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  • 2960
    The thing that will replace that.
      March 11, 2017 8:36 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Wireless transmission of energy. Not talking solar or perhaps extra dimensional travel that will open up gates to Hell? This post was edited by O-uknow at March 13, 2017 6:59 AM MDT
      March 11, 2017 9:10 PM MST
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  • Droid servants. They'll do everything from weeding the garden to cooking the meals. The downside, of course, is that we'll all become redundant.
      March 11, 2017 9:24 PM MST
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  • The next big thing will be a virtual world that you never have to leave. . Implants in your eyes will project a world with the colors and textures you specify on the "settings", 
    You'd walk around as an avatar that would look anyway you wanted to, tall, skinny, black, blonde, anything you wanted. And others around you will be the avatars they choose to show. People would have legally binding virtual marriage s and virtual jobs that would pay real money into a real bank. . . 
    People would and could be connected for ever and all the time. 
      March 11, 2017 9:41 PM MST
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  • I was thinking that there would be no reason for the date to maintain roads looking decent, since we could look at them thru any filter we wanted. 
    There would be the connected that would see the world all glittery,  ;),  and the poor, who would see the world as it is. 
    Creepy eh?
      March 12, 2017 9:02 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    Looking past new innovations, the next big thing (IMO) will be another stock market crash
      March 11, 2017 10:11 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I fear that if all of the restrictions on the securities and financial industries are lifted, as the Republicans are wont to do, that is exactly what will happen.  They want to repeal  Dodd-Frank which is how we got into the 2008 crisis. 
      March 12, 2017 8:21 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    I'm still in the scratch 'n sniff stage of my life so my thoughts on this subject are modest.
    Longer battery life for our technology tools. 
      March 12, 2017 7:30 AM MDT
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  • 3523
    And more battery storage for electric cars.
      March 12, 2017 8:56 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i have no idea
      March 12, 2017 5:50 PM MDT
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