What will come after web apps and social sites?

Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by bcater on Monday July 30, 2007 @12:49PM (#37698)

Someone is going to change the model of how we interact with computers. Keyboards are good, mice are good, big plasma screens are really good, but what's next? Is there a faster or more efficient or more enjoyable way to interact with computers? Do computers have to be boxy? Do monitors have to be rectangular? Unless we have reached the pinnacle of "consumer input/output devices," startups will eventually write the applications that take advantage of the new model - that is, if it's not startups that design the model.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by zach on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @12:49PM (#37982)

Multitouch is one of those things that everyone can understand is great. People look at it and get it and want it. It's a big reason why the iPhone is what it is.

Now, of course, there's still the gorilla-arm problem if you want to put it on a wall, but Cintiq or table-style, no problem. Folks out there should be thinking two or three steps ahead on this technology, I try to.

Keep your eye on Perceptive Pixel:

Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/112/open_features-cantto...

Demo: http://light.vpod.tv/?s=0.0.135867

Fascinating speculation: http://informationrain.com/2007/06/10/resolution-independenc...

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by far33d on Monday July 30, 2007 @07:53PM (#37807)

The real innovation here is going to be through the conversion of things into computers, instead of changes with computers themselves.

Instead of a different monitor shape, your stereo, your television, your car, your phone, your home systems, etc will all just become computers with the same natural interfaces they always had.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by rrival on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:19PM (#37815)

I'm in the market for something in a ... table. I don't want to spend any more than $15k.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by sbraford on Monday July 30, 2007 @04:11PM (#37749)

Yes where are all the "Minority Report"-inspired Y Combinator startups? =)

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by ivankirigin on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @03:43PM (#38070)

Automated driving is open government-sponsored competition.

Sick-sticks are just a different form of tazer.

Eye transplants require better surgical techniques for the optic nerve to last.

Reading the future is impossible.

People are actively working on cognitive enhancers without side effects. They won't be stealthy once they work.

Keeping people in stasis requires a better understanding of brains.

Electronic Ink is getting better, but video on a reasonable display will take some time.

Gestural interfaces work fairly well, but the only deployed systems are for games (EyeToy for PS2). This has room for growth. But the large screen would probably be better used for teleconferencing as remote teams need better tools than we have today. But Wii and Multi-Touch IPhone are almost there.

The spider robots must have had an incredible amount of computation and powerful sensors in order to map a room, detect people, and locomote. The mobility platform wouldn't be that hard to build, but would be fragile compared with the treads you find in today's military robots.

Seeing people through walls is done with radar by the military today.

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Re:What will come after web apps and social sites? by pg on Monday July 30, 2007 @10:52PM (#37820)

Still in stealth mode.

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