I wonder what my great-grandmother thought the first time she saw an automobile, or an airplane? My great-grandparents, and I knew my great-grandmother well, pre-dated technologies that we take for granted. We have a generation graduating from college who have always had computers and access to the internet. Some of them had email addresses created at birth, that they can use for a lifetime.
1: What is the device above and have you seen one in action?
2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars?
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google?
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel?
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? (Interesting question from a guy who bought a Betamax machine, weeks before VHS became the standard.).
My Answers:
1: What is the device above and have you seen one in action? Obviously I have seen one in action (two of them that morning), if I told you what it is, it would spoil it for you, have fun.
2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars? I think we are probably 10 years away, the experts say 2 to 20 years.
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google? Yes, I have used all of them, Siri is my least used.
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel? There is a group of entrepreneur engineers trying again, but I think they will run out of the investors money before they make it work - but enjoy a few years of million dollar salaries along the way.
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? (Interesting question from a guy who bought a Betamax machine, weeks before VHS became the standard.) Sadly, I think my desktop computer is one of the last generations, hopefully connecting portable machines to large displays will still be popular, I love my huge screens (I have two 27 inch displays side by side on my desk at home!) I either want them tiny or huge!
Please share your answers (and silly remarks) in the comments.
1. I think it delivers something, maybe ice for my gin and tonic when I forget to fill the ice maker. While my ice delivery machine would not be seen in the morning, each to their own. Nothing wrong with gin for breakfast.
ReplyDelete2. I'll guess ten years. Technology in so many areas is speeding ahead, like we would hope our self driving cars will be as we imagine effortless moving around but forgetting all about traffic jams and gazillions of other self driving cars jostling for space. I hope they are smooth. I hate been pushed and then pulled as I'm thrown back and forth.
3. I've played with Hey Google and it is a bit of fun but I then forgot about it.
4. Like Concorde? The less time I have to spend in the air the more I like it, so I hope so.
5. I really hope desktop computers for the home will continue on. I could manage with a laptop but I much prefer a desk top. I took the covers off our tower box to vacuum out any dust, well lots of dust, and I was astonished how little there was inside it. The DVD drive in our five year old model was not an upgrade on our over ten year old model, although the software is better and I rarely make a drinks coaster now when burning a dvd.
It could deliver ice, call in an order.
Delete1: What is the device above and have you seen one in action? A delivery bot
ReplyDelete2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars? Too soon
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google? No
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel? Yes
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? (Interesting question from a guy who bought a Betamax machine, weeks before VHS became the standard.). Ha! We bought a Beta at the same time. And a bunch of videos! My answer: Oral thermometers.
Where else could that thermometer go?
DeleteWhat is the device above and have you seen one in action? A haven't it. But is it like a drone bringing orders?
ReplyDelete2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars? The techno is there now, but no. We aren't ready for it. Humans are pass too lazy now.
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google? No. Things know WAY too much of us now.
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel? yes, probably
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? I not sure, but let's blog about it if there are still blogs!!!
Im all for new techno, as long as it doesn't make human even more lazy. Soon we can just sit like blobs and never lift a finger to do anything.
We do have to rescue the robo vac from itself most days, it would be stuck and die without us.
Delete1: What is the device above and have you seen one in action? I imagine some kind of delivery-bot? I have only seen this one.
ReplyDelete2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars? Doesn’t Tesla already have one? And I wouldn’t trust most drivers to sit back and let the car drive itself.
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google? I have Siri on my phone and I use it every so often. The others? Nope.
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel? I would think so.
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? (Interesting question from a guy who bought a Betamax machine, weeks before VHS became the standard.). Phones. We’ll all have chips implanted.
Let's make sure the chips have a block caller feature.
Delete1: meals on wheels?
ReplyDelete2: hopefully never
3: HELL NO
4: perhaps
5: television
#1 restaurant delivery robot, so yes meals on wheels. I hope self driving cars are perfected by the time I need to give up driving.
Delete1: What is the device above? A piston engine.
ReplyDelete2: When do you think we will have self-driving cars? 25+ years if we live so long.
3: Do you use a voice remote or digital search engine like Siri or Alexa, or Hey Google? Sooner I'd eat rats at Tewkesbury.
4: Do you think we will return to supersonic airline travel? Only if they have super-sonic flight service. That's what I want brought back.
5: What technology that we use today, will be extinct in 20 years? Alexa, replaced by chips in our necks.
I wonder if I feel about chips in our necks, the way my great grandmother felt about many flying?
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