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"I think crypto will slowly percolate its way up and people will adopt it gradually as user friendly, cheap products, become available."
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In this near future Earth, everyone wears their computer. The display is routed through smart contact lenses.
Vinge expands on this idea in his 2006 novel Rainbows End:
Robert was practicing with his beginner's outfit, tryying to repeat the coding tricks Juan had shown him. For the most part, even the simplest gestures didn't work when he first tried them. But he would flail and flail - and when the command did work, the success gave him a pitiful spike of joy and he worked even harder. Like a boy with a new computer game. Or a trained rat.
Most of the early work involved wearing some sort of bulky unit that served as the computer and battery pack, or trying to distribute blocky objects around the body. The recently developed technology to print circuits on flexible media (like cloth) will revolutionize wearable computing. See Printing RFID Tags With Magic Ink for an example.
Take a look at Tinmith Augmented Reality to see some current state of the art. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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