re: Has Tech Slowed Down - Whats New?

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You are too ignorant to grasps the concept. What is mundane is going on my phone and having to type in a list that I already created on paper to scroll through all the options and spend time deciphering where this all is. Or I can walk through a grocery store with my VR headset and get everything I need without all the BS that comes with web grocery shopping. Its easier to see 1,000 items in person vs a page that can only show 10-100 items at a time and consist of hundreds of pages.

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I'm not the ignorant one in this situation. Your VR experience sounds good to you because it's a fantasy superior alternative to regular brick-and-mortar grocery shopping, and you find web-based online shopping arduous because you're not very familiar with it. That's why you glossed over all of the points I made above and went straight to calling me ignorant.

When I first tried online grocery ordering, all of my stuff was already neatly in a list based on purchase history and frequency. Even if you took the long way and typed an entire list, you would only need to do that once and it would be saved forever -- are you going to put on a VR headset and browse aisles for everything every time you want to order things? You don't need to look at the entire 1,000 item inventory at once or in 10-100 item pages. You can tap one button and see all of the items you buy and want immediately, in one single list. Right now, today, with current technology, I just tap "Reorder" and there is everything I buy, right there. One spot. Adding a VR headset to this process whenever you want to shop is absurd.

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Yeah this isn't new tech lol. There are too many variables for machines to learn when you need something and it be accurate. What if I cook 3 times a week and the next week I cook 10 times? So the next week it will send me the items for x10?

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If we're talking automatic grocery shopping, then:

1. Get an alert your periodic grocery list is going to be shipped soon -- you tap it
2. You look at the list and tap the - and + to adjust quantities as needed, tap done
3. Groceries arrive later

During this process you might see "related items" presented to you on the margins of the pages based on the type of items you purchase, making it super easy to grab additional things you might need without having to type a bunch of stuff in.

How is this difficult? How is this a long, drawn out mundane process compared to putting on head gear and virtually walking up and down grocery aisles trying to find where an item is "stocked"?

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You are too ignorant to grasps the concept.

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Something about glass houses and throwing stones comes to mind. You are using this technology wrong if you think the comparison is manually shopping from a paper list in an app. You can use your voice assistant on your phone to add things to your cart on Walmart, so rather than do something as antiquated as writing a list down, as you run low on things you tell Siri/Google to add them to your Walmart cart. You can do the same thing with Alexa and Amazon/Whole Foods.

So rather than keeping a paper list that you need to shop for later, your list has been transformed into a filled shopping cart ready to check out without having to type or scroll at all, or virtually walk down an aisle.

These apps also make it very easy to access and reorder items you regularly buy. Again, if your argument is VR shopping is easier than shopping on a tiny phone screen, you're using those apps wrong.

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Its easier to see 1,000 items in person vs a page that can only show 10-100 items at a time and consist of hundreds of pages.

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Now this I can agree with, and there are times where you would want to virtually shop like that. The smart phone is a double edged sword. You are always able to use it no matter where you are, but by becoming the primary device we access the digital world with, the experience has its limitations.

As for the OP's question, I don't know what home tech is coming next. Most people predicted our phones getting ever smaller until the iPhone came along and changed everything.

What we do know is coming is AI. Not the big "general intelligence" that will kill us all one day, but we are seeing a rise of narrowly focused AI on the verge of being ready for prime time that will make amazing things when they are layered on top of each other.

For example, GPT3 is a language AI, think chat bots where you ask it questions and it gives answers. The next version, GPT4 is coming out soon and reportedly is very good at passing turing tests and fooling people into thinking it's human. LINK / Combine GPT4 with AI voice recognition that can detect our mood by analyzing our voice, and you can build a responsive virtual personal assistant. Basically Siri will get several steps closer to Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her.

We also have seen quite a bit of progress this year in AI that generates art, photos and even video from text prompts. Can't find anything to watch on Netflix? 5-10 years from now Netflix's "Surprise Me" button might be able to digitally create a show from scratch, on the fly based on what you like to watch.