I can’t wait for the day when computer and display technology stabilizes the way that mechanical technology has. I can buy a quality wrist-watch, and 5, 20, 50 years from now, it will still be functional, aesthetic, and useful. The cell phone that I bought this year will be behind-the-times a year from now and most likely broken 5 years from now.
Will I live to see the day that displays will be built into furniture like desks, and not render them obsolete fodder for the scrapyard in 5 years?
Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that this year I can buy twice the hard drive for the same price that I could have bought it at last year. And I love my LCDs compared to my CRTs. And don’t get me started on camera megapixels.
But there’s another part of me that longs for stability, for today’s gadgetry to move beyond its adolescent growth spurt–and mature into something that is both stable and has reached its potential.
(Huh, and I never thought of myself like this before. What’s the term for a luddite born 200 years before his time?).