What will home computers do 10 years from now...

[TheClown]

Will there be more Windows Upgrades? Like, since we have Windows Vista...

Just Wondering!

 

[Slugbait]

For Christ's sake, everybody is avoiding answering the question...sheesh.

Ten years from now, what my home computer will do:

- Automatic mistress organization, and sending flowers to the correct recipient for those days when I get stuck being "soccer dad"
- Burn Farmville
- Properly calculate the growth rate of my back hair, and then forwarding a message to my mobile device the location and time for my removal appointment
- Ripping all of my music discs...again...from across the room, while still in their jewel cases
- Keystrokes while composing an email will be translated into a sonata as I type, and then immediately copyrighted
- Solve, once and for all, whether or not Han fired first
- When I'm in a good mood, it will work perfectly...when I'm in a bad mood, the UI will lock up just before I click the Send button and lose everything
- It will call me "Dave" in a soothing voice
- Automatically tells you that all of your emails/IM/whatever to me is blocked until you get a decent anti-malware program...and knows if you then actually use the damn thing
- Locate my TV remote
- It will let me win a game of chess. Once. Then it will congratulate me in a mocking tone
- Detects the monetary amount of loose change in the cushions of all three couches
- Occasionally has "opposite day", when ones are zeros, and zeros are ones...on purpose
- Make Gary Coleman look two inches taller

I'm exhausted...

 

[WildW]

So far computers have always expanded in storage space to allow me to store new things. Ten years ago I was ripping my CDs to mp3 and I had to buy a new 30GB hard disk to hold it all. Now those same MP3s are a tiny corner of a much bigger drive. They would probably fit on some kind of micro-SD card if I really wanted.

Today, you can hold a mountain of movies on a hard disk - perhaps they will have a similar fate and become insignificant in size. . . except. . . I can't imagine what the rest of my 200TB hard disk is going to hold. I haven't got anything more space-consuming than movies. HD will keep things bulked up for a while, but even that won't require more than one hard disk.

All that disk space is going to let us do something new. . . my best guesses are:

1) Virtual reality comes back, done properly.
2) 3D object storage for my USB matter-replicator.
3) Super artificial intelligence (which I might call Andromeda)
4) Pr0n - possibly incorporating any/all of the above.

 

[piasabird]

Sounds like you want us to do a homework assignment.

I would venture that computers will be the new TV's or function as TV Servers. I think people will still want a big screen.

I am still waiting for all newspapers to go completely digital.

Maybe the government will go online with their new brainwashing software. Or maybe they already have.