A day in the future: “getting that pizza from the TV”
”A day in the future” will be a series of posts about fictional and "mundane" conversations people will have in the future. The goal for me here is to present futurists day to day interactions from a human point of view.
In a not so distant future
A family is resting while watching TV and suddenly an ad start
From an holographic TV: “just for today we have a special offer! Buy this new Galactic-Pizza and receive for free our new tasty chips with extra pepper...”
Father: wow that sounds good!
Mother (with a “knowing” face): well what are you waiting for? its your birthday, order it now and stop with that puppy eyes as if you were starving like in the 2000s...
Father (with a jester-like smile): son! Go and put your hand in the TV and grab it right now before the ad finishes!
Son (with a grumpy face): coming dad...
The son goes to the holographic TV and literally put his hand inside the holographic image, at that same moment the atomic structure of that same pizza is automatically downloaded to the family home, and thanks to nano-technology, this pizza along with the free chips literally materialize seemingly out of nowhere, the son grabs them and takes them out of the TV. All of this process happens in real time, just as if the food was already cooked inside the TV.
Son (with the same jester-like smile as his dad): here you go pa, and it actually looks better than I thought, can I taste it?
Father (with a grumpy face): ok well just give it a little bite, little ok? Besides if you want one just go and order a new one. I want this pizza to be just for me!!
Son (going to the house’s materializer): Materializer, I want one more pizza and charge it to my dad’s account!
Father: great! Another birthday where I am the one paying for everything...
The family resume watching TV for the rest of the night...
Do you think in the future an interaction like that would be possible?
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Sounds a little crazy, but on the other hand, people are already printing food with 3D-printers..
What do you think people from the 1800s would think if you told them we would be printing food with 3D printers?
They would ask you, what’s a printer?! And after explaining it they would tell you “you are crazy that’s impossible”.
Future technology looks like magic for people 50 - 60 in the past.
I believe our world in 2117 will be very different and it would look like magic to us people from the 2000s
While I agree with you that the future will always seem like magic if you think far enough, but due to technilogy developing faster and faster the amount of time we have to look into the future in order to seem like magic to us decreases constantly!
Now I feel like 10-20 years into the future will feel nearly like magic now, but I am optimistic that that time frame will decrease to just a few if not even one or two years within my lifetime!
So, very exciting times!
That’s 100% correct! That’s What exponentially means.
We could see the technology I talk in this article this century, but to be conservative I prefer to say next :D
Yeah exponentially is exactly what I was trying to get across :)
Well nanotechnology is quite a challenge so it might not work out this century, but maybe the AIs that are currently being developed find an easy way to develop it. Let's just hope they don't kill us with it ^^
I think we will eventually become one with them, integrate with them and become a new race of synthetic beings
i am confused as to whether i would want this reality or not. i love the idea of pizza materializing...but the future of ads popping holographicly into the living room...sounds kinda shit... ha ha...im stuck between homer simpson and a Luddite.
I believe the benefits of this type of exchange between goods and having instant commerce would be awesome, even faster than amazon’s drones hahaha
i'd love to be alive during that point of time hahaha!
Wouldn’t we all? :P
right now on pizza night the wife uses the computer to place an order, pays for it..and about ten minutes later the pizza is delivered to the door.
wow! interesting take!
Thanks! I am glad you like it
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I liked that. I'm unsure if I would enjoy a reality like that though. There are just some things you have to work for in life :)
Imagine if people from the past thought like that. Today we would be washing our clothes by hands and sending physical letters instead of instant messages. Don’t you think?
Good point! But if we don't even have to leave the house for anything? Wouldn't that be unhealthy? :)
I think we will leave the house for other reasons, like having fun and visiting cool places.
I believe our future will be even more digital than our world today
I think it will too!
Hahahahah @dedicatedguy
This is really funny! But I'm an optimist and a believer and I tell you, as funny/weird this may sound, it might just be achieved and it is most probably achieveable.
A lot can happen in future. And I tell you again, many techs we use today were once joked about like tgis in the distant past abd the not so distant past. Many people must have laughed them off as funny/weird but we now make use of em everyday
I am glad you like it!
I think the future have a lot of surprises for us. Many things we believe are impossible actually are not impossible. For example, immortality and teleportation. I believe those 2 things are not only possible, but very likely for us to develop eventually.
I am planning on doing more “a day in the future” posts so make sure to stay around buddy!
Ha! That's a dystopian view. Have you read Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstien? If not, it's amazing and related to what you're doing here. :)
Heyy! Thanks! I haven’t read that book but I will be checking it out!