Has Tech Slowed Down - Whats New?

Things to look forward to:

Lots of work being done to make augmented reality with AI, or mixed reality systems ubiquitous with the average household.

Cameras using high-rez SPAD technology for full color 3D night vision.

In 1889, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US patent office, wanted to close the office because he thought that “Everything that can be invented has been invented”.....

More seriously (pun intended), Moore’s Law firmly established since mid-1960's is estimated to end sometime in the next decade. This is because transistors will be unable to operate within smaller circuits at increasingly higher temperatures. Eventually, cooling the transistors will require more energy than the energy that passes through the transistor itself.

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In 1889, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US patent office, wanted to close the office because he thought that “Everything that can be invented has been invented”.....

More seriously (pun intended), Moore’s Law firmly established since mid-1960's is estimated to end sometime in the next decade. This is because transistors will be unable to operate within smaller circuits at increasingly higher temperatures. Eventually, cooling the transistors will require more energy than the energy that passes through the transistor itself.

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Component heat creation/dissipation and battery tech are the two things holding us back. Until we see a fundamental shift in one or both of those areas, we are likely looking at iterative changes for the foreseeable future.

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I am waiting for when I can go grocery shop using VR (like mimic an entire grocery store experience

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But why? Why waste the time virtually walking down aisles and trying to find virtual items on shelves when the shopping cart process that exists now is faster and more efficient?

We’ve probably come to the point of diminishing returns for most home tech.

What’s next is either experimental stuff (eg. metaverse) or finding a cheaper way to mass manufacture next gen tech (eg. micro-led screens).

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Why waste the time virtually walking down aisles and trying to find virtual items on shelves when the shopping cart process that exists now is faster and more efficient?

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Why waste time scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through my phone when I can just put my VR headset on, "walk" into the grocery store and look at all the items on the shelf to see what I need.

Governments are learning how go leverage technology h now to control populace, I'm glad I grew up in the rra where tech is was freed societies.

I eagerly await the next disruptive
Tech that frees people.

Sorry, I just don't get the appeal. If I can go into a virtual world and do whatever I want, I'm not going to the grocery store. Grocery shopping is a chore to be automated, not something fun to do in make believe land. The pinnacle of grocery shopping tech would be when whatever I need shows up at my door without me having to think about it.

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How can you expect a machine to know when YOU need something? If anything, that doesn't even seem feasible.

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That is the endgame of smart home and automation tech, and there are plenty of ways that machines could know what you need when you need it. I think object recognition is the most likely method for many things. There are already refrigerators that try to determine what's inside. Obviously we have a ways to go before it is perfected, but folks are working on it. We could also have scales built into pantry shelves, which when combined with object recognition your pantry can know what you used, how much you used, and how much is left. It could count calories for you. Maybe for some things I would have to manually add things to the list (via simple button press, voice control, or whatever), but I think with existing tech and some more software development we could automate well over half of grocery shopping.

The machines already know how to show us ads for things we want with scary accuracy just based on our searches. You don't think they can figure out when we need more of the same shite that we buy over and over?

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If I can go into a virtual world and do whatever I want, I'm not going to the grocery store.

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That is literally the entire point of my invention

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What are you talking about? I meant if I can do whatever I want in VR then I'm not going to choose going grocery shopping in VR. I'm going to use it for either work or play, not for the day to day drudgery of chores. Do you want to recreate vacuuming the house in VR or do you want a machine to do it for you?

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Why waste time scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through my phone when I can just put my VR headset on, "walk" into the grocery store and look at all the items on the shelf to see what I need.

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Yeah, instead of acquiring goods at literally the touch of a button -- such a time waster! -- let's make a VR app that replicates the mundane, annoying part of acquiring goods. Next up: Let's make an app where you stand up in front of the stove and cook a full meal, but really you didn't cook a meal and Uber Eats drops off something.