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Are we in a dead period of new tech?

Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:32 am
Posted by Powerman
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:32 am
AI notwithstanding that is

I'm talking about tech devices

Smartphones and wearables just come out with new minor performance improvements each year. Things like TVs and monitors might be reaching their max performance capabilities.

What do you suppose will be the next big thing in tech gadgets? Holographic displays? Some wearable tech like the Meta glasses? I don't see either of those gaining mass adoption.
Posted by bad93ex
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:33 am to
Sophons are doing work
Posted by TDsngumbo
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:34 am to
I don't know, but I know my tech sector fund is on fire lately.
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:40 am to
No doubt that these firms are making a killing

They just aren't making any new paradigm shifting products

Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:43 am to
I was promised hoverboards and flying cars
Posted by beerJeep
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:43 am to
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Sophons are doing work


Bout 100 pages into book 3 and I only thought I was confused before.
This post was edited on 10/29/25 at 10:43 am
Posted by Bullfrog
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:43 am to
Mind to machine tech is about to explode along with Zero-Point energy devices. And eventually Jetson type cars and floating RV’s.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:44 am to
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Jetson type cars
I always liked the Flintstones better
Posted by Joshjrn
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:45 am to
Tech feels stagnant because we currently can't make processors significantly more powerful without 1. Significantly increasing heat 2. Significantly increasing power draw.

A device that relies on passive cooling can only put out so much heat before it heat soaks and starts to throttle. A device with a battery can only pull so much power before people would prefer to have more battery life than more power.

Until we solve one or both of those issues, we're likely going to live in a period of tech refinement as opposed to tech innovation.
Posted by FLTech
Member since Sep 2017
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 10:45 am to
We are in a dead period with technology- why? Because we donn’t have enough juice to run all of the new technology. This is why other countries are investing trillions of dollars into the USA - a lot of that money will go towards infrastructure, new data centers, etc
Posted by usc6158
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 2:12 pm to
I can hail a car in Austin, LA, or SF and have a computer drive me around. That's pretty cool.

Also hard to exclude AI when that's the basis for all sort of emerging consumer products like autonomous systems, robotics, and predictive wearables.
This post was edited on 10/29/25 at 2:15 pm
Posted by bad93ex
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Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 3:09 pm to
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2. Significantly increasing power draw


I believe that the "green energy" push of the past couple decades has hamstrung the US power supply but that is just my opinion.
Posted by hometownhero89
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 3:36 pm to
Not at all. Neo personal chore robots, warehouse robots and the Army granted a contract to Oklo for helion fusion generators.
Posted by Joshjrn
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:09 pm to
quote:

I believe that the "green energy" push of the past couple decades has hamstrung the US power supply but that is just my opinion.

That… has nothing to do with what I’m talking about re: battery density. Home computing components, like GPUs, have become massive power hogs. That’s simply not paradigm shifting.
Posted by BoardReader
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:10 pm to
Hell no.

People take for granted that the most innovative period in human history is a perpetual normal state- innovation as you saw from 1985 to 2025 has been an explosive abberration.

The good news is that you'll still have innovation, but it will be much more pedestrian than revolutionary. Throw in an economic environment where capital markets are increasingly squeezed, and funding super innovation is going to slow across the board until the Baby Boomers die off.
Posted by bad93ex
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Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:38 pm to
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That… has nothing to do with what I’m talking about re: battery density. Home computing components, like GPUs, have become massive power hogs. That’s simply not paradigm shifting.



My bad, I was talking in terms of the new "AI data centers" that seem to be popping up next to freshwater sources that have everyone's panties in a bundle.
Posted by DavidTheGnome
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Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:48 pm to
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AI notwithstanding that is



I mean that’s a pretty huge thing to be notwithstanding
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:49 pm to
Its why they're all selling subscriptions now.
Posted by TulsaSooner78
Member since Aug 2025
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 4:50 pm to
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What do you suppose will be the next big thing in tech gadgets?


Sexbots.
Posted by ClemsonKitten
Member since Aug 2025
372 posts
Posted on 10/29/25 at 5:01 pm to
AI bubble is real
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