From desktops to laptops to notebooks to smartphones to tablets, technology has never ceased to amaze us and amuse us, and while we are still recovering from this super-pleasant technological shock from smartphones and tablets, we are being introduced the Google Glass.
What do you think the next step would be??
Of course, after the Google Glass, we can expect Smart Contact Lenses (probably named iSee if Apple first happens to launch it) in a few years from now... After wearing them, you might be experiencing the same vision that Mr. James Cameron envisioned a few decades ago in "The Terminator" series, as seen from the point of view of T-800/T-1000.
In the beginning, to browse through that "vision" to do you desired task (take a snap, search a map, record a video, play a video or some virtual games, or probably recognize someone you don't remember) you might have to install some sort of touchpad on the right or left side of your temple depending on your dominant hand. However, as the technology advances, you might able to control them without using your hands with the help of a biomechanical chip connected to neurotransmitters in your brain.
What do you think the next step would be??
Of course, after the Google Glass, we can expect Smart Contact Lenses (probably named iSee if Apple first happens to launch it) in a few years from now... After wearing them, you might be experiencing the same vision that Mr. James Cameron envisioned a few decades ago in "The Terminator" series, as seen from the point of view of T-800/T-1000.
In the beginning, to browse through that "vision" to do you desired task (take a snap, search a map, record a video, play a video or some virtual games, or probably recognize someone you don't remember) you might have to install some sort of touchpad on the right or left side of your temple depending on your dominant hand. However, as the technology advances, you might able to control them without using your hands with the help of a biomechanical chip connected to neurotransmitters in your brain.
And how would you flaunt them, "Dude, did you notice my new pair of iSee, they've got Night Vision, GPS, Apple's latest FRS (Face Recognition Software), and they come with 5 TB memory chip installed behind my ears to store videos and snaps! and I just have to close my eyes to get inside the virtual world to play CounterStrike V101.5. How cool is that!!?"
Once these devices get inside our body, it will be the first step in the history of mankind to evolve from mere an organism to half machine half organism. There would be no looking back. In future, we might have invented prosthesis to enable handicapped people work more efficiently and without any disability; however, you may imagine a world where people would be happily ready to sacrifice their natural limbs/organs to get the latest gizmos as their replacements that work faster and enable to do the things which they could not with their natural limbs/organs. Imagine a group of people discussing the following:
"Dude! My dad's gonna get me a new pair of iFly on my next B'day.. They've got 6 inch long toes to hold onto stuff like my pair of iGrab and can extend to 12 inches if I gotta climb a building without waiting for the lift. Besides, the roller skates can go from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds for good 20 miles as well as a pair of superstrong mini turbines that can help me fly 20 feet above the ground for 2 hours."
OR
"Hey Gals! Watch my Samsung's HurryUp S6... I just got this hand gifted by my hubby on our marriage anniversary... Now, I can try 100 different kinds of makeup within 10 minutes.. It's got eye shadow, 100,000 shades of lipstick, lip liner, compact, mascara, kaajal, and 55,000 preinstalled hairstyles. Now, I can change my looks without having to look into the mirror." (Nonetheless, the hubby dear would still be at the receiving end while getting late for a party because his dearest wife would be taking even more time deciding which look she should select).
Amusing as it may sound, you will need the natural openings given by nature to install a socket for these devices to plug in to get them charged. For example, for contact lenses, you'll have nares; for the chip inside your brain, you have ears; for your prosthetic super-cool upper limbs, you have navel; and for lower limbs, you'll have anus. LOL!!!
On a serious note, we might have developed efficient techniques to derive energy to charge these devices from electrical impulse from the sinoatrial node situated in our heart or maybe you'll be subscribing to harness energy remotely for a price from a nuclear device situated at a central place of the city.
Well, if you start imagining, the possibilities are endless.. We might be having a mechanical gastrointestinal system for people who lost their natural one to cancer, a brain chip to enhance memory for people who have learning disabilities or people who lost their memory due to Alzheimer's, a complete replacement of the whole neurological circuit for people with paralysis or in coma, a mechanical heart for people who have heart diseases running in their family, an artificial pancreas for diabetes patients, a mechanical liver with gallbladder and a bile duct, or even a mechanical brain with all the downloaded information from your natural one..
With so much real mess going around in the world like dirty politics, terrorism, racial and regional discrimination, hate, wars, and the race to develop the most advanced and deadliest weapons, we really need some fancy bullshit like love, universal brotherhood, and compassion to survive and evolve ourselves to such fantastic times. Just hope and pray that we don't annihilate ourselves before reaching there...
