Charlie Brooker is the force behind Black Mirror, and his notion of how we’ll look 30 years in the future seem prescient to me, especially the VR contact lenses:
John Robinson, Charlie Brooker: ‘The more horrible an idea, the funnier I find it’
I used to smoke and the first thing I did was reach for a cigarette. Now the first thing I do is that [reaches for iPhone]. In 30 years’ time there will be a drama series set in 2016. Characters will be on their phones and the viewers will look at it like we do with Mad Men and smoking: “Look at them! They’re all on their phones in meetings! Well, of course, they didn’t know about the thumb cancer those things give you…” Having said that, I remember life before smartphones, and it was fucking boring. The most exciting thing you could do was get a cover for your phone, or play Snake. I don’t think we’ll replace them until we get in-eye contact lenses that do the same thing; so we can stare at people while we’re ignoring them. We should try and make people more interesting than phones.
Yes I agree that we should make people more interesting than phones.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/152509532457