Predict the technology in 2025

VinnieThePooh · 15 Dec 2012 at 01:21

What do you reckon the PC, phones, etc... is going to be like?

Remember, 12 years ago, most people did not have laptops. Most people had beige boxes and CRT monitors.

IMO...

Smartphones will replace laptops and desktops for most people. This will be the setup for most people.

An average storage will be around 2-3TB for phones. 5-10TB for desktops/laptops.

12-16GB of RAM, an average.

Windows, OSX, Linux, most likely unified platforms of mobile and desktop OS'.

Fanless laptops, SSD will be on all laptops.

5G connections, most carriers will become ISPs basically.

Even a cheap laptop will be incredibly overpowered for a normal consumer

Web apps are going to be even more powerful, most people will store all their data in the cloud.

Everything will have a touchscreen.

Maybe a touch recognition on the phones... recognizes an owner's fingerprints, unlocks.

Google's 3D maps will cover most of the world, it's going to be glorious!

4th gen XBOX, PlayStation 5... will probably be amazing.

VinnieThePooh · 15 Dec 2012 at 01:24

estebanrey said:
Still waiting for my Robot Butler that Tomorrow's World promised me back in the 80s.

That reminds me, Google Now and Siri are going to be incredibly powerful... given 12 years of development, they'll probably be your butler.

VinnieThePooh · 15 Dec 2012 at 01:49

Raikiri said:
Why bother with 3tb of storage when everything is stored in the cloud?

Purely because Hitachi, Western Digital and others will want to make money.

That's why I wrote that most laptops will be incredibly overpowered for an average consumer.

Even now, laptops ship with 500GB/1TB drives, most consumers don't need anywhere near that much.

Also, while processors are getting faster and more efficient, software is becoming lighter, faster and more efficient as well, Windows 8 is faster and lighter than Windows 7... so it's like a dual attack, hardware is becoming more powerful, software is becoming faster and more optimized. Pretty exciting.

And add to all of that, that as I mentioned, IMO most things will move to the cloud so where all that processing power will go, I don't know.

Personally I'm looking forward to a breakthrough in batteries, sounds boring but a phone that lasted weeks/months without needing a charge would be awesome. Great for electric cars too.

I would LOVE some real innovation in batteries, but they seem to be stuck. Hardware optimization is more likely than some revolutionary new battery tech.

VinnieThePooh · 15 Dec 2012 at 18:06

desires said:
Stuff will become fanless.

People above mention how a laptop will be way overspecced for peoples requirements. Nah I don't think so, I think they'll concentrate on effeciency. Getting todays top sepc PC to run with just heatsinks in a laptop case within 12 years and the advances in efficiency allowing even better specced machines for the avid gamers who are running around in photo-realistic worlds with life-like physics using relativity and all sorts.

That's a realistic scenario.

Eames said:
So how will gaming work, is it all done via streaming like quake live?

Your phone/tablet will be powerful enough to run mainstream games.

Solaris said:
Mechanical Hard Drives will no longer be manufactured, everything will be solid state.

Windows market share will have tumbled into insignificance...

I agree regarding the mechanical hard drives but what makes you think Windows will go dodo? And be replaced by what?

Regarding some other things though, like wireless electricity, battery power cars, self driving cars, no dependence on oil, etc... I have to disagree.

Stuff like that takes decades. That's closer to 2050 than 2025.