Scenario:Television
From Future
[edit] Time line
- 2007
- 2008
- Commercially available brain computer interface for video games.
- OLED display
- (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If there's a market for video iPods, there's a market for video glasses: eyewear that plugs into those devices and lets movies take over your field of vision. But today's crop of goggles with built-in screens--like MicroOptical's $300 MyVu--are bulky, block your line of sight, and make you look as though you're headed to the nearest Star Trek convention. Enter Lumus, an Israeli startup that has developed a pair of video glasses that are lightweight and stylish. The glasses, due to hit the market by 2008 for about $400, project video on the interior of their transparent lenses and weigh less than an ounce.
- 2009
- Air hologram
- Analog television ban
- Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information — from photos to maps to menus.
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- Hologram display
- Artificial intelligence keeps young children from watching age inappropriate content and limit the amount of time they watch.
- Universal videogame console: Can play all videogames ever made by downloading them off the internet wirelessly. Has only one cord for power. Wireless controllers can be any shape. Connect to monitor wirelessly.
- 2013
- 2014
- Eyeglass displays replace most cellphones.
- 2015
- 2016
- Television advertising is abandoned as interactive A.I.s are more attuned to peoples wants.
- Television can now be watched with contact lenses.
- Computer graphics on a normal laptop computer are indistinguishable from real life.
- Ultra High Definition Video Display
- Wall size displays
- 2025
- Brainchips create interactive realistic virtual reality environments.
- 2035
- The Singularity acures. Everyone lives in/on the internet.
[edit] See also
- History of the television Wikipedia
- RyansWorld: Criminalization of television - A provocative scenario, that considers the possibility of television being made illegal - because of its socially damaging effects.
