future-thoughts

Aug 24, 2006 at 11:41 o\clock

The integration of technology

by: clintgriffin

I read a great article in Wallpaper* today, about a book that's actually a radio but operates like a book and has no visible signs that it's anything but a book.

 

I like that idea, it's like the idea of a wearable TV, the concept of air - we breathe it and need it but don't notice it. For me development means integration, to the point where we don't notice it, where computers are not towers with boxes, in fact the notion of computer disappears completely as the visible signs of them disappear.  If my towel tells me i need to rehydrate, cool, I don't think of my towel as a computer that dries stuff.

 

 Of course it's a little scary to us, to rely on 'unseen things' to go about our daily tasks, but that's progress.  I'm thinking of houses wih no doors, you just walk into the 'skin' it repairs itself. I'm thinking the future is a place where nothing breaks, everything is organic, where clever metals or plastics build themselves, turn on and off to create different colours, luminescances etc etc. Rigid or soft etc etc.

 

Cool stuff. 

Comments for this entry:

  1. quoteDiddums wrote at Aug 24, 2006 at 15:02 o\clock:I like the idea, especially the colours. It would depend on us having enough power. Maybe if we had fewer people it would help :-). Bubbes of technology nestled inside the forests and mountains rather than sprawling over everything. That would look like those fantasy paintings of futuristic cities.
  2. quoteDiddums wrote at Aug 24, 2006 at 15:05 o\clock:Bubbles, that is...
  3. quoteclintgriffin wrote at Aug 24, 2006 at 16:02 o\clock:I would say that the 'bubbles' of technology may not be even visible at all. imagine living within a forest, energy sheild keeping out the weather etc without impacting on the environment. Modified trees that provide warmth in winter through their bark and keep us cool in summer. Regulating temp organically.

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