Why have computers on our table if the table itself can behave like one?
Why have a kiosk or pc mounted on 
the wall if the wall itself can be a computer.
the wall if the wall itself can be a computer. Very interesting proposition it may seem…if everything goes as well as we can imagine, you would be careful not to touch any innocent looking surface lest it triggers a surprise action. Who knows - every stair you climb might actually be a digital surface giving you information along the way. Maybe roads and streets will have digitized surfaces – nothing but a massive computer screen on which you ride and it makes possible a million more possibilities.
It’s possible that every solid surface you touch – of every dimension, will be a digital surface. I wonder how geeky and unnatural it might seem or will it be so useful that we don’t mind them.
The next level technology might be how to retain the natural look of object surfaces despite them being digital surfaces actually. This will happen when people begin reminiscing about good old days when things were more natural and dumb. Artists and poets would definitely paint more from the past to add a natural feel to digitized homes. I wonder what the contemporaries of that age will get to do arty enough.
Imagine an entire home constructed with digitized walls, including all the objects in it.
Maybe our cookware would all be digital concaves and convexes. When I pour oil in a frying pan, maybe it will tell me to stop when it reaches the right level, or when the frying is done or when it has to be washed.
As long as the potatoes and radishes don’t start talking to me, I think I would be able to maintain my sanity. Thank god plants can’t get into this race inherently. Or am I wrong?
It’s possible that every solid surface you touch – of every dimension, will be a digital surface. I wonder how geeky and unnatural it might seem or will it be so useful that we don’t mind them.
The next level technology might be how to retain the natural look of object surfaces despite them being digital surfaces actually. This will happen when people begin reminiscing about good old days when things were more natural and dumb. Artists and poets would definitely paint more from the past to add a natural feel to digitized homes. I wonder what the contemporaries of that age will get to do arty enough.
Imagine an entire home constructed with digitized walls, including all the objects in it.
Maybe our cookware would all be digital concaves and convexes. When I pour oil in a frying pan, maybe it will tell me to stop when it reaches the right level, or when the frying is done or when it has to be washed.
As long as the potatoes and radishes don’t start talking to me, I think I would be able to maintain my sanity. Thank god plants can’t get into this race inherently. Or am I wrong?
What if our apparel and accessories also have digitized surfaces.
They perhaps would be monitoring my body dynamics and advise me on when to stop eating, what not to eat, when to destess, when to take walk, when to be out in the cold, how much to reduce the volume of my ipod Version 2025 AD, when to change the size of my shoes etc. Oooooh! Again, I am very glad that my skin will not get digitized!
But insurance companies surely don’t have to waste effort on underwriting and can actually provide a policy on-demand. But then, will they have so much risk to cover? Point. Also, what will all the doctors do? I wonder. And Police, and Spies, and Detectives. Maybe they will all become Data Monitoring Managers. There could be a total upheaval of professions. Doctors, I guess will have lots of complaints about mal-func
tional finger tips, tired of excessive digi-use.
tional finger tips, tired of excessive digi-use. There may be suggestions on how often and how much one can use one’s phalanges or palms or feet on ditigal surfaces. There may be special ointments and finger caps to protect them from damage. For once, the fault may actually lie with you than the technology behind the surface, if the desired results are not achieved. The call center may actually ask you to check your fingers and palms first! There is no scope for reboot in this case or kickstarting it i.e. kicking and starting. Today’s exposed phalanges may actually find themselves well guarded and clothed to prevent any damage since you can’t have a change of these.
People may suffer from psychological disorders like the Constantly Communicative Environment Syndrome or we may have ReBITI or Repressed Behavior due to Excessive Tracking And Interaction. There may be special de-digitisation camps to cure such people in natural environs. Offices (if there are any) may have digit free zones for their employees to relax and hide from the roving eyes and possibly gossip without fear. Digitization of beaches and shady coffee shops or restaurants will be a no- no for the romantic twosomes. I am sure that digital access and security will be THE most important industry with the biggest responsibility to ensure the Right access to the Right people at all the Right times. Rrrrrright….
There could be speech related disorders due to lack of use. There may be classes to tell people to make noise like the Laughter clubs of today. Talking about speech, I wonder what will happen to music. Surely Music will have to survive. It cannot be overcome by any technology, only aided by technology. The hearing and singing, hopefully will keep our sense organs in total use.
You would ask, why, why at all the world would get as crazy. After all, isn’t adoption dictated by need? But, haven’t we begun using so many objects out of pure fancy or peer pressure until it became a ‘need’. ‘Need’ does get built around ‘use’ as well. And ‘crazy’ is a word that is contextual. Crazy today is normal tomorrow. So, what is crazy tomorrow, I wonder.
Coming back to the discussion, the power of touch could become all encompassing. For once the physically challenged will feel very much in control and independent. Like the super-gods in legends we hear, we have to only touch here and there to trigger various actions. There would be special services like ‘how to digitize an otherwise ordinary table’ if it can’t find a place in the Museum of Erstwhile Natural Objects (MENO). Maybe we will save woods and reduce plastics and so
mehow fill up that ozone hole. From the Moon, our earth will look like one helluva digitized ball – except the Great Wall of China unless they plan to digitize that. Maybe our Paint companies will switch over to digital painting or digi-enabling of walls. Astronauts and Cosmonauts and Sinonauts and Indonauts will no longer see the earth the way Yuri Gagarin to Sunita Williams did. Their quotations will become a treasure all the more in a world using tools of everyday use, all of them made of wirelessly digitized surfaces. How wonderfully horrid! Or, terrifyingly beautiful. People may actually tour to other planets just to be in natural environs like how we go to hill stations to escape the concrete and the crowd!
As for kids, even simple implements they use such as Pencils and pens may be digitized
. They will hear from the pencil itself whether it is being held in the right manner! This is assuming they still learn to ‘write’ and not ‘touch’. Just one of the many exercises to prevent their fingers’ from getting their mobility impaired. Their answer papers will of course tell them when to start and stop and when not to cheat. Their sitting chairs or shared benches would tell them to sit properly. I wonder what the teacher will do, stripped off her complete monitoring and teaching capability - to maintain human-to-human interaction, maybe.
People may actually be found talking in the air, because there are so many surfaces listening to them and transmitting their intentions to the right destination. Maybe each human has a yet to discover unique frequency which can be used to identify and target what he/she wishes to do.
The nex
t level will potentially be when we can achieve all the above effects without actually touching them, just pointing will do or maybe just a look will do. So, as we have seen in the fairy tales, we would just point a finger like a magician and get what we want. Who said fairy tales were unrealistic, it now seems like highly advanced technology that was available those days. Maybe the story of Atlantis was right after all; we are just getting back to where we were - A full circle.
The penultimate next will be when all states of matter get digitized for wide use. So airplanes will never fall, ships will never sink. We will have mineral water talking to us from the bottle, just when our attire informed us of our lowered hydrated level.
People may suffer from psychological disorders like the Constantly Communicative Environment Syndrome or we may have ReBITI or Repressed Behavior due to Excessive Tracking And Interaction. There may be special de-digitisation camps to cure such people in natural environs. Offices (if there are any) may have digit free zones for their employees to relax and hide from the roving eyes and possibly gossip without fear. Digitization of beaches and shady coffee shops or restaurants will be a no- no for the romantic twosomes. I am sure that digital access and security will be THE most important industry with the biggest responsibility to ensure the Right access to the Right people at all the Right times. Rrrrrright….
There could be speech related disorders due to lack of use. There may be classes to tell people to make noise like the Laughter clubs of today. Talking about speech, I wonder what will happen to music. Surely Music will have to survive. It cannot be overcome by any technology, only aided by technology. The hearing and singing, hopefully will keep our sense organs in total use.
You would ask, why, why at all the world would get as crazy. After all, isn’t adoption dictated by need? But, haven’t we begun using so many objects out of pure fancy or peer pressure until it became a ‘need’. ‘Need’ does get built around ‘use’ as well. And ‘crazy’ is a word that is contextual. Crazy today is normal tomorrow. So, what is crazy tomorrow, I wonder.
Coming back to the discussion, the power of touch could become all encompassing. For once the physically challenged will feel very much in control and independent. Like the super-gods in legends we hear, we have to only touch here and there to trigger various actions. There would be special services like ‘how to digitize an otherwise ordinary table’ if it can’t find a place in the Museum of Erstwhile Natural Objects (MENO). Maybe we will save woods and reduce plastics and so
mehow fill up that ozone hole. From the Moon, our earth will look like one helluva digitized ball – except the Great Wall of China unless they plan to digitize that. Maybe our Paint companies will switch over to digital painting or digi-enabling of walls. Astronauts and Cosmonauts and Sinonauts and Indonauts will no longer see the earth the way Yuri Gagarin to Sunita Williams did. Their quotations will become a treasure all the more in a world using tools of everyday use, all of them made of wirelessly digitized surfaces. How wonderfully horrid! Or, terrifyingly beautiful. People may actually tour to other planets just to be in natural environs like how we go to hill stations to escape the concrete and the crowd!As for kids, even simple implements they use such as Pencils and pens may be digitized
. They will hear from the pencil itself whether it is being held in the right manner! This is assuming they still learn to ‘write’ and not ‘touch’. Just one of the many exercises to prevent their fingers’ from getting their mobility impaired. Their answer papers will of course tell them when to start and stop and when not to cheat. Their sitting chairs or shared benches would tell them to sit properly. I wonder what the teacher will do, stripped off her complete monitoring and teaching capability - to maintain human-to-human interaction, maybe.People may actually be found talking in the air, because there are so many surfaces listening to them and transmitting their intentions to the right destination. Maybe each human has a yet to discover unique frequency which can be used to identify and target what he/she wishes to do.
The nex
t level will potentially be when we can achieve all the above effects without actually touching them, just pointing will do or maybe just a look will do. So, as we have seen in the fairy tales, we would just point a finger like a magician and get what we want. Who said fairy tales were unrealistic, it now seems like highly advanced technology that was available those days. Maybe the story of Atlantis was right after all; we are just getting back to where we were - A full circle.The penultimate next will be when all states of matter get digitized for wide use. So airplanes will never fall, ships will never sink. We will have mineral water talking to us from the bottle, just when our attire informed us of our lowered hydrated level.
The ultimate next will be when the animals’ and plants’ DNA get digital, so much so that all living and non living can all ‘talk’ to each other in an apparently empty medium. Oh, this is getting really too much for me too, who I thought had great penchant for change. My brain cells refuse to comprehend any further and ask me to get down to earth, before the place where I stand gets digitized in a few decades.Okay, I must stop it here for now. I was actually analyzing from a ‘normal’ angle and took off on a different note. Thanks for bearing with this onslaught.