Tech that won’t happen soon
Four forecasts of problems technology won’t soon solve
Ho-hum.
The refrigerator that knows when to order fresh milk for you online.
The remote control that coordinates your music and video for every room in the house.
The vacuum cleaner that obeys your verbal commands.
Those are the kinds of gee-whiz predictions that journalists can describe breathlessly after high-tech conferences. I could have written that sort of column after attending last month’s Southern California Summit on Semiconductors and Communications in Newport Beach.
Instead, I came away from it with much gloomier predictions for the next five to 10 years. The predictions are my own, but they’re mostly based on what high-tech experts said at the conference and elsewhere.
Here are my four forecasts, which I hope are wrong:
Electronics in the living room will remain an uncoordinated mess.
