What realistic tech do you think we'll have 10 years from now in 2034?

Everything will be over insulated. We'll all where "parkas" with integrated water cooling for our 6 month summers when we go outside

How about a smart toaster? It knows what kind of bread you feed it, toasts it just right and understands your feedback. This way, it will update a neural network that covers all types of bread it has ever seen and how you like them toasted.

I wish. Genetic sequencing is already pretty cheap, but cancer is not some all-encompassing disease to be cured by it.

I remember hearing about the development of solid-state batteries a few years ago and I have been anxiously awaiting any news regarding the concept since.

I think the big turning point for that could be the ability to run some advanced models (by today's standards) on device. Would definitely unlock some pretty cool use cases.

Sounds like a privacy nightmare honestly. Also a kind of black mirror like social point system.

Navigation is the only one that sounds neat, but also a bit brain rotting. I already don't know where I am half the time because of navigation.

I'd like more basic things, like a floating music player, sticky notes/todo list, notifications bar or video/text, when looking at a restaurant seeing the reviews and menu with order options, looking at a product and getting more info. Just stuff that I'd need to manually look up otherwise or things that would be infinitely better without being hunched over a handheld device.

I think road signs will have embedded codes for self driving cars. Whether it's a local broadcast signal, a QR code, or just extra blocky letters for the computer to read easier, road signage and signals will be directed to the computer in the car, not to inform the human in the car.

I forget where I read this, but someone posited that the goal has always been "all day" battery. Ever since the first smartphones ,we've had, largely, the same battery life. It lasts most of the day and that's good enough for most people. The secret, though, is that actually the batteries have gotten way bigger and more energy dense, it's just that the processors and mobile radios are also more power intensive.

I suspect if you put a modern battery in a 5 yr old smartphone it would last 2+ days. But you'd have to deal with 3G radios, bad GPS, and slow performance.

It's my sexbox and her name is Sony.

Libra what?

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

Seems like something you would find interesting.

I've worked in the home automation industry for over twenty five years. I've been programming "smart lighting" for over ten.

The "smart home" you see today is largely thanks to how cheaply things are made in china and repackaged by mega-corporations. And the consumers' desire to do everything from their phone (with 2 day shipping). Automated lighting control has existed for over forty years. It's been expensive because the parts are built to last for forty plus years and most of the older system were manufactured in the US. Those manufacturers are still mostly making things in the US but a lot of little bits are imported.

An average 2,500 sq ft home could do a whole automated lighting system for about five grand. That's a lot for someone to buy (and install) from Amazon but it's nothing if it's bundled into your mortgage.

Nothing beats a wire. For a small apartment with a few lighting circuits, sure, spend $500 on some wireless doodads. Now you're stuck relying on software updates and firmware updates by your router, your wireless bridge, your smart buttons, your lighting fixtures, your mobile OS, the lighting app, and maybe another app to combine everything, not to mention your "smart speaker" if you want to yelp your commands into the air. On the other hand, if you get everything from one manufacturer, it's built on an isolated network that grants access to your mobile device and the system is self contained and essentially bulletproof until the power goes out.

Lighting is a life safety segment. You won't pass inspection unless you can turn the lights on and off from a physical switch or button that doesn't rely on your home wifi.

It's up to electricians and builders and AV experts (and CEDIA) to convince future home owners that it's worth getting this stuff installed before the home is built rather than letting them decide to buy something prone to failure on their own.

I love smart lighting. I wish everyone would invest any amount of money into it. But, if I'm reading you right, a wifi lighting world is not something I would hope to see become more commonplace than the current path of wired automated lighting. I'm in agreement with you though. It's really sad when I walk into brand new homes that have no lighting control (or distributed audio) at all.

rectennas

Don't like the sound of that

How could that be considerably better than what we have now? It seems to be solved now with stans alone consumer headsets. Or do you anticipate a brain interface in consumer products in the next 10 years?

IED??

One of only a handful of actually accurate answers here. 10 years isn't that long to be honest. Just look back 10 years and see how similar it all is.

How is generating porn exactly how I want it not useful?

I mean, a sex robot couldn't hurt.

We already have that, there are already people whose sole job is telling the machine what to do in specific enough terms that the machine doesn't make mistakes. It's called programmers. People who think LLMs can replace programmers don't understand what a programmer does. An AGI will surely make programmers obsolete, but it would also make any other job obsolete and I don't think we're 10 years away from one.