03-29-2003, 03:44 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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PDA References In Science Fiction
It's pretty darn cool that someone wrote this up. This little page references, amongst other things, SF references to handheld-like devices. The top of the list is, of course, Mr. Asimov in 1956 -- but I have to admit, I like the other references as well ("tickler", "joymaker", "wristcom", etc.  )
Based on this, I have two questions for you all.- What do you think SF writers should predict the future of PDAs should be -- 50 years from now?
- What would you call such devices?
Come on, show your SF creativity! When we unveil the PPCT tome in 2053 (and when Jason and I are in our 70's 8O), I want to see correct answers! 
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03-29-2003, 03:51 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2005
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Implants! Implants, Implants, Implants!
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03-29-2003, 03:59 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Jun 2003
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It's interesting you should bring this up, because ever since I've gotten my PPC I keep thinking of a novel by John Scalzi I recently read called Old Man's War (soon to be published by Tor Books - I highly recommend it).
The book deals with futuristic soldiers who get new bodies once they go out into space and join the Army. Along with their new bodies, they're issued Brain Pals, computers implanted into their heads with which they can do everything a computer can, plus read, watch movies, and communicate wirelessly with their comrades.
Sound familiar?
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03-29-2003, 04:37 AM
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Ponderer
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First of all, since people want to be able to see their device - implants are too invasive and impractical :devilboy: - I would believe that everything will be in your watch. Nothing is more practical than that. Input will be through a perfected form of voice recognition (they better $#%*@ have at least that in the future). The watch itself will be roughly equivalent to a pocket pc in terms of functionality, with word editing, movies, etc. (I mean, what else would it do?) with probably a cell phone receiver built in.
Some magical advanced form of bluetooth will allow this device to "lock in" a nearby screen, such as a monitor or a even a thin little pad that would be like a very thin pocket pc. This way you could actually interact with the watch via a full resolution screen aka Windows. There you could write cab files, do your taxes, etc. When you are finished, the monitor goes blank and awaits another user; you take your watch with you. You could have these monitor terminals in your office, in your car, in the airport, bathroom, etc. Public "smart screens" would be run by quarters like a telephone booth. Plus, you could your VCR would have this bluetooth transmitter built-in - allowing you to go to your monitor and program the VCR using standard operating procedure :lol:
This, my friends, is the future 0X
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03-29-2003, 05:20 AM
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Magi
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I predict that in the year 2053 Pocket PC 2003 will finally be released, and Activesync will still be a piece of crap....and there will be a hole in the "Ozone"
.....They will be holographic, and will be worn on your finger like a ring. When touched the holographic screen and keyboard will be displayed. Onboard memory will be very little since they will be connected to the ssww. solar system wide web
Dave
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03-29-2003, 05:28 AM
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I think it'll be some kind of heads up display that would be integrated into eye glasses and wirelessly connect to content servers where all your data is stored. It would read your eye movement. Of course this would also be your mobile phone.
If you don't wear glasses then who knows, maybe a holographic display from your watch.
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03-29-2003, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Paragon
.....and will be worn on your finger like a ring.
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Yes!!! And it can also be used as a weapon, they could call it "The Schwartz"... :lol:
Steve
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03-29-2003, 05:55 AM
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Pontificator
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Not sure about the future - but how about the dim and distant past (some way before Asimov)?
In Mesopotamia, centuries before Christ, they had the earliest known PDAs! None survive (that we know of) but detailed pictures/drawings from the time exist, found in excavations carried out in the 1920s (ironically in what is modern day Bhagdad...). Clever little devices - they appeared to have been hand sized abacuses with a hinged 'lid' which doubled as a slate for writing on (and appears to have been able to fold right to the back) and a compartment of some kind for holding some form of chalk or charcoal stick. They seem to have been used by the then equivalent of accountants...
Just goes to show there really ARE no original ideas...
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03-29-2003, 06:13 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2004
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50 years ago in 1953, the Leo computer filled a room 40 x 40.
50 years later there allready is a watch with a Palm built in.
In 50 more years I can only hope they can do better than a watch, ring or sunglasses.
Maybe some kind of wet pda.
Organicpc :robot: tm
craig
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03-29-2003, 06:32 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I don't know about 50 years but in 100 the human body and the PPC will be one - all we can hope for is that both soft and hard resets will not include jamming of a sharp object up some cavity. 8O
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