Comments on: Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?

By: Rhea

Rhea — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:16:03 +0000

We’ll definitely abandon suburbia. Towns with centers or cities will be the location of choice. By the way, I am 50 and I still wear a watch. I tried using my cell phone for the time and I hated it.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:16:00 +0000

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:35:53 +0000

Yes, very fun to think about.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:35:00 +0000

Yes, very fun to think about.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:03:09 +0000

Hi Scott:
I LOVE your idea of an earring or other piercing – makes so much more sense than implantation, for all the reasons you enumerate. Fun to speculate about this stuff, eh?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:45:21 +0000

Problem with having “Everyone will have an implanted electronic chip that will allow us to access the Internet through a holographic screen that will be projected in space before our eyes” is the cost and risk of upgrading or repairing said devices.

Also… if you look at the direction of current communications devices, they’re geared towards use and upgrade. How would you like to have to get a surgery every 2 years when the newest model of “comm chip” came out.

Alternatively, if they are geared for long term use, then the companies that make them have no reason to be in business. Eventually everyone will have one, and there will be a very small number of new consumers.

Finally, most production products have an acceptable failure rate of about 10% out of the box. How would you feel if you had one of these things implanted, only to discover that it didn’t work?

Given the growing acceptability of piercings, especially ear piercings, I think seeing communications devices embedded in earrings seems more likely. Using bone conduction it might even be possible to have privacy in conversations.

Interesting ideas otherwise.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:45:00 +0000

Finally, most production products have an acceptable failure rate of about 10% out of the box. How would you feel if you had one of these things implanted, only to discover that it didn’t work?

Interesting ideas otherwise.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:29:24 +0000

Ooh! Good one, Col. I think it would be great if we exchanged goods and services. Not only would we save money, we’d feel more useful because we’d be helping others. As for the solar stuff – don’t ask me where it comes from, I read this stuff, I retain it; my mind is a sieve where the important stuff is concerned but otherwise filled with lots of meaningless minutia.

By: Colleen A

Colleen A — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:30:25 +0000

“Expensive photovoltaic solar panel technology”? Seriously, how to you KNOW and RETAIN all of this knowledge?!

I think that we will revert back to bartering for goods to help save on expenses, thus leaving people doing jobs they enjoy.

By: Colleen A

Colleen A — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:30:00 +0000

“Expensive photovoltaic solar panel technology”? Seriously, how to you KNOW and RETAIN all of this knowledge?!

I think that we will revert back to bartering for goods to help save on expenses, thus leaving people doing jobs they enjoy.