More of a pet peeve, but I thought IT would be way more stable by now. Everything has so many bugs and it’s just accepted. I’ve grown pessimistic about new tech and I would prefer to wait a couple years before getting it. It’s not novel if it’s broken.
Side thought, I thought we would have hologram phone calls by now.
Computer phones. As in I just connect to screen and keyboard, and phone is my main desktop.
Cheaper EVs.
Working lab fusion.
Like the Motorola Atrix
Too ahead of its time.
Wasn’t that something proposed in windows phone? I can’t remember and am too lazy to look it up
Android 16 brings that desktop functionality
If its just for a productivity office type work, samsung phones can do this but it is account locked which is annoying
That’s still weak compared to what a phone could really do though.
Absolutely. My phone is more powerful than my family pc from 2007 by a mile
EVs are pretty cheap now. How cheap did you think?
Slightly cheaper than fuel by 10% for similar cars (including country of origin)
As cheap as gasoline cars
They are. You can get an atto 1 for 25k AUD. Lots of options in the 30-40k aud range. A petrol corolla is 32k, so they’re comparable.
Compassion, empathy, socialism.
Phones that can be opened up and have internals replaced, like desktop computers
So like the Fairphone?
That one is still exclusive to a few select countries and won’t ship to mine :/
Oh no :(
Self driving cars. Ten years ago I said, “we’ll have this worked out in 10 years”. What a fool I was.
Elmo has claimed to have it for over 10 years now
You weren’t a fool, you simply were lied to
Elmo always lies, every second word put of his mouth is a lie. Every project he boasts about has been a lie.
Recycling that actually works.
Standardized connector for everything with backwards compatibility
Those thin transparent screens you see in sci fi movies.
I definitely thought we’d have Ar glasses by now
this
Maglev trains in the US
I was hoping that by now technology and education would have helped all the humans to realize how to take care of each other and work together for a better tomorrow.
Instead we got this fucking mess that’s going on right now all around the world.
It’s really that. All that technology and we still didn’t solve the most primitive and basic problems in this world’s community.
Brit on a train; A phone network that would offer a reasonable level of connectivity no matter where you are in the country.
Ours definitely took a few steps back early 2023.
AI dildos
Realistically?
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Housing that doesn’t cost a fortune
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Healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt you
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Food that’s both affordable and worth eating
None of it is futuristic. All of it feels further away than ever.
That’s not tech, that’s policy. Technologically there are no holdups to this, capitalism just needs it to not be so
Your answer is something you want to force into the conversation, not what OP asked.
You’re not wrong, but that’s not the conversation man.
Yeah, the reason we don’t have those isn’t technological. We could have it today if we collectively decided that we wanted it.
That’s not really how it works, or we’d already have them. People in China have those things because they beat the fascist KMT back to Formosa, and by force subordinated the bourgeoisie and the remnants of feudalism.
Well, that plus militant organizing
As it is written in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra:
It is like when someone points his finger at the moon to show it to someone else. Guided by the finger, that person should see the moon. If he looks at the finger instead and mistakes it for the moon, he loses not only the moon but the finger also. Why? It is because he mistakes the pointing finger for the bright moon.
Recently quoted by Bruce Lee, than in the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
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I thought VR/AR would be farther along. There was a pitch 10 years ago that VR would be the “final platform” in that anything a phone, TV, tablet, or computer could do could be easily emulated in VR.
Unfortunately it’s still all walled gardens. Also nobody wants to wear that shit for more than an hour.
I feel dumb for buying the valve index.
More specifically I thought one of the approaches to an omni-treadmill would catch on enough for an at-home model to be available to the public.
There are a few that you can buy, they just aren’t cheap. KAT Walk is a usable omni-“treadmill”, FreeAim has their motorized shoes. Again, not cheap, but still within the budget of a motivated enthusiast.
Brain implants are progressing, so I’m still hopeful to see full-dive VR in my lifetime. Also scared of how it will be enshtitfied.
Yeah… as amazing as full dive VR would be, I’d be afraid that weaponized would be a better term for how it would be implemented than enshitified.
Yeah, you coukd extend the social media reality bubbles ppl are living in to actual perceived reality. You coukd also block out homeless people and this hyper individuallism that it wouod enable would stop those kinds of problems from having any hope of being solved.
