Your pessimism does not seem justified. And I'm quite looking forward to the future of heads up displays and augmented reality.
http://www.meta-view.com/ https://www.thalmic.com/myo/ http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/programming-with-augmented-reality/ On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:18 PM, John Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the first place, Steve was very conservative when it came > to hardware and advances; relatively few things pushed the edge > technologically, in terms of achieving some kind of science future. > Three-dimensional displays exist, but no one ever explored that option. > > From 1999 onwards, the focus of Apple was to produce commerce, > not advance the state of products overall. Most everything > he did from 1997 to 2011 simply leveraged the work that had been > done previously and repackaged it. Bitter failures at NeXT and > massive success at Pixar led to the candy coating of Apple products, > in which all progress underneath the covers ceased abruptly. > > But now Apple is unaware of this and they are still riding forward into > a wall. They don't know that they are riding into a wall because they > are just rehashing and rehashing things written in the 1980's and 1990's, > which weren't, in the first place, as advanced as people envisioned them > to be able to be in the 1950's even. > > Since Microsoft follows Apple in large part and SGI is basically > gone, no one leads the world except Apple. So if Apple does not > incorporate > a technology, it will never become mainstream. No major competing > operating > systems exist anymore and no one is even thinking like that. And since > Google is > only splitting itself when it gets into hardware and not staying on track > with web, > it cannot really overcome this, either. > > This is really the end game, for all of technology. > If Apple never improves itself in this regard, never thinks at a > fundamental > level, if it never examines the faults that Steve borrowed from PARC > without > examining the conceptual underpinnings, Apple will just decline, as is > the case right now. > > Everything that was aspired in the 1990's is now a narrowly-defined > reality: > video exists in all formats and is available in any way possible. Audio > and > music are consumable in all ways. All information is basically > transmittable > as quickly as one really wants it given technology. Speed the computers > up by > 10x and it won't make much difference anymore. > > Stock analysts and news journalists can't see that the underpinnings of > technology have now hit a wall. Go ahead and make a watch or whatever. > Real observers know that technology is over; it is just in its last throes. > > Once you define a tablet in the form of an iPad, no one can do anything > else. > Now that a mobile phone is synonymous with a touch pad, no one can think > of anything else. Mankind has boxed itself in and it is all over. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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