I think Apple is going to surprise everyone with a highly advanced Siri. That's kind of their forte, perfecting things before releasing them. It often leaves them being last to show up at the party but the tech is usually impressive. I can see them possibly charging a premium for the most advanced version of Siri.
I really hope we escape a world where we're wearing our screens. I think this would be infinitely worse than mobile phones. That's one reason this LAM tech got me so excited. We become straight up cyborgs at this point, I'm afraid, or way closer to it.
I definitely will review the R1 here when I have a chance to use it for a while. I got in on the second round of the presale so mine should be delivered in March/April.
The future is going to be insanely cool and interesting. If managed wisely this next wave of tech will help us in ways we can't even imagine. I, honestly, as someone looking at the elderly phase of life in 20 or so years am thankful to have been born. Cars will drive themselves by then and those who can afford them will have a personal robot to help them out around the house.
I'm totally with you. The exponential curve of growth is speeding up: we are close to going vertical, where our technological progress in just one year will be greater than all of human history. Then double that for the next year, and so on. In 20 years I think things will look so different than today. I'm excited to see where things lead. Provided we don't kill each other (a war or mad scientist doing something) or a extinction-level natural disaster doesn't kill us (like the yellowstone supervolcano), I think we are near a Star Trek type future.
I agree. It's going to be a race against time, I think. The tech will need to solve a lot of huge problems for us in a very short period of time. This might allow humanity to survive the century. The way it's going I'm afraid we won't do it on our own.