I think ar might be a dead dream in its current state, I always thought wed have proper ar glasses by now because I fell for Magic Leaps Marketting, not sure if it’ll come anytime soon.

What I do believe is coming is the resurgence of computers through mobile phones. Everyone has a powerful computer in their pockets but isn’t able to use them to their full potential. I wouldn’t be suprised if android pushed out a proper android desktop experience letting android users get the full linux desktop experience when plugged into a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

Phone performance is stronger than the average laptops/netbooks from 10 years age and they run linux fine for everyday use. Feels like a missed opportunity if someone doesn’t drop a phone or os that lets you take advantage of modern hardwares capability. They could advertise it to families, mo more buying a pc for school, just get them hardware for their existing device, it can already do everything. Schools could use lapdocks, or tabletdocks, that could force school parental controls on devices while at school and still let them use it for their education while in class.

(obviously not everyone has a phone but that frees up resources for the kids that dont, if the kids that do can use cheaper docks with their exisitnt hardware)

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    • Phones won’t start including a Linux desktop.
    • Browser apps will be a thing of the past, you’ll need to install either a mobile or desktop app to use YouTube or Netflix or whatever.
    • Sites like YouTube will also probably remove the subscriptions feed (which only like 1-2% of people use).
    • Vendor lock-in efforts will be more forceful.
    • I think more people will start touching grass.

    And putting AI aside is a bit weird since it’s the big news story so:

    • Companies will replace workers with generative AI, and as a result essential services will be worse (but more profitable).
    • Generative AI will outside of the above be used as a (low-reliability but low-effort) search engine, for memes, and in animation.