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PROVOKING THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY: 125 micro-forecasts from the Blended Reality 2008 crowd-sourcing experiment
At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we
crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative society results!
Question #2: It’s 2019. How do you share your feelings?
outwardly people will be even more opaque while choosing to only
display their true selves in a mediated fashion--a new generation will
grow up with multiple personality disorder enabled by having to juggle
as many as 20 different online personas at once
I share special moments and sentiments with my tribe through dedicated web content that I keep on my own desktop server. I maintain lists of individuals who should receive content related to personal matters, family affairs, work, etc. - and instantaneously send updates via mobile devices to these individuals: images, video, sound recordings, you name it. I'm even able to craft and distribute multimedia productions (e.g., games, video, audio, text, artwork, poetry/prose) on topics of particular interest or around which I have particular passion quickly and easily, drawing from databases, menus, templates, and easy-to-use applications - all available through open sources online. My only costs for using all this technology are those associated with buying the equipment (much less expensive than in 2008) and paying usage taxes (much more expensive than in 2008 - but manageable given the plethora of open-source content).
All of my connections are linked into one simple wireless device called a VCD (Virtual Connection Device). It is similar to cell phones of the early 2000's but it is a different form factor. No key board, for instance. Very Small and easy to carry. Very easy to 'talk to'. I don't have to type at all. (The brainiacs are working on being able to record thoughts, but it is still too risky. Keeps getting things people don't want there.) I have one contact identifier (not phone numbers and emails). My virtual connect profile (VCP) and calendar locate me (at different levels for different people - My daughter can "find" me anywhere, my non-work friends can only "see" me when I am outside of work). I can also locate my family, friends and coworkers the same way. I don't have to call them at several numbers or different emails. Their personal routers find them. I can intertwine their profiles into my VCB (Virtual connection Blog) to help me remember their special days and also to link into their VCB moods (if they want me to) so that I know if they are having a bad (or good) day. If someone wants to go out for a drink or a movie or whatever, they put it in their VCB and it automatically matches with others in the 'tribe' who want to do the same thing. No need for real invites. There are special ways I can touch someone with a personal delivery of a physical item (for a cost) if I choose. I have much more real contact with my 'tribe' than I did when emails and blogs and facebook and texting were all taking off. It is much easier now and I don't have to 'log in' to so many places and look for people all over.
Most likely face to face, as I do nowdays. This can also be done via skype using the webcam which I hope will be built in my forehead by the year 2019.
It's 2019 and my tribe is like a rainbow--all liked together but all so separate. I'm at a new chapter w/ my restored 401K allowing me to live all the 'someday' dreams...but my base needs for connections and celebration continues down the road that never ends. I want to connect and celebrate in special ways that CAN be instant, easy -- but ALWAYS w/ value conveyed.
Hmmm...2019 and sharing my feelings. By then men will be as open as women, not afraid to cry whether happy or sad. We'll be more transparent to everyone around us. I envision everyone's feelings being more in the open and accepted.
1. I am a man. I’m not convinced that even in 2019 I will have much desire to show my feelings to others.
2. Mocking, sarcasm, and good natured derision towards those whose companionship you enjoy will never go out of style.
Applications will track my thoughts and feelings, consumption habits, and opinions to everyone in my "trusted network". Which, by 2019, will be all of the Bay Area. These thoughts will be accessible at all times to everyone and interesting to no one. Sharing feelings is obsolete, perhaps already...moreso by 2019. Satisfying socializing will be more about uniting to express feelings that are not our own--real world games, anonymous activity partnering, role-playing etc;
the way I share my feelings in the year 2019 is through my personal MURP (Mapped User Recording Process). With a touch of the finger, the identification of a print and I am through - to share my feelings with others I touch on their local, to keep my feelings private I choose to record my feeling in my PSS (Personal Saving System).
I think it will be mainly done by instant video messaging that is sent and received on a variety of devices--cellphone, LAN video phone, computer. You would have the ability to save the "special ones" for easy playback so you can keep a memento like we keep cards we receive today.
I'm 43 yrs old in 2019. Medical research is booming and there have been great advances in science, but the healthcare system is in shambles. Hospitals are understaffed and underfunded. So rather than spend lots of money on an inefficient health plan, I'm investing in keeping myself healthy. I pay more for healthy foods, and I put time and attention into staying fit. If something really bad happens, I'll be in trouble, but I think I'd be in trouble anyway, so I'm focusing on maintaining my own health rather than trusting it to a broken system.
In the year 2019 I will share my feelings with those I care about
through phone calls to check on them and let them know when they are
on my mind, hand written notes and cards, small gifts from time to
time just because I care about them and occasional email.
I will probably call or email a lot. However, I also like to send cards and letters by mail. I tend to express myself better in writing than face to face or over the phone.
My emotional feelings will automatically be captured by emotion sensors on my home digital system and suggestions will be offered to me. For example: Love-Options to order a digital card sent to the one I love. Hate-A message to go to the gym and work out my frustrations. Frustration-A set of options that might help in my decision making process.
I can imagine using device that's always with me, in my case it would be
eyeglasses, which responds to voice commands, and manages all the 'data' in my life. I'd instantly be able capture images, personal photos, meaningful pieces of content, including editorial that helps me to express the right emotions for the right occasions, with the ease of voice commands.
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First, I hope that I'm alive in 2019 (!)..I'm a leading edge boomer.
Second, for communicating with those I care about, I like direct and
immediate face time...whether it's in person or on a screen or whatever
dimension that can carry a live image. I find it important to not just
hear or read what a person is saying ... I also like to see expressions,
body motions, etc., because they add richness to your communication and
reduce the chance of misunderstandings. For those who are close to you and
have emotional attachments, it's important to use multiple senses to enrich
conversation. So I hope the device I carry everywhere will have that
capability by 2019.
Phone, Email, expressions, cards..
the answer to your question would pretty much be as I do things today, wait for them to call me. although, if you need a more serious response, I do love my iPhone and all it can do. Mobile - it's the future, well at least until 2019.
By the year 2019, your feelings will be communicated through integrated network of devices that understands your location and your bio-rythems. These pieces of information are integrated to present you information and opportunities based on those emotions. Additionally, anyone communicating with you will understand your feelings and be offered opportunities to impact those feelings.
Less time seeing relatives because of busy schedules. More folks will
know how to use the computer so emailing (of some type) or video
texting, will be the wave of the future. Close personal contact will
still be used, but the circle will get smaller. Personal occasions will
use cards because, we save all cards given to the kids and received by
the kids. Since we another child on the way, we will continue to observe
some of the same traditions because I'm old fashioned and do not want
the world to speed up too fast
nullbarb: #2019 - SOCIETY Barry from South Africa says: It will still be a physical object. I won't use technology to express my words and feelings.
nullbarb: #2019 - SOCIETY Christopher from South Africa (in the Tax software business) Same way I do today, face-to-face
tday5678: #2019 I will share my feelings real time with animated visuals and conversations where I can see the person.
If this is feelings then talking has to be the first. If I want technolgy to help me create intimacy then Hologram projection and immersive surroundings. If I want products to express feelings then would want hi -levels of personalisation unique to my family and I
The device/card/phone or what ever the product that delivers the message
about my feeling would react to the type of feeling. Meaning it would feel
cold when angry or mad, fill warm when happy or sharing a message of
excitement or love/compassion. I would be able to record a video or have
the product connect to me directly so the message received could be real
time, so we could interact directly with each other, but the product is
used to set the tone of the message for the occasion.. (Birthday,
Anniversary, Sympathy, etc....) I'm going to connect with people in several ways. First will be with
regular greeting cards. I know it's old fashion, but people still love
them. When I don't have time to send a greeting card, I will plug into my
mind-reading PDA that will navigate by using my thoughts. Cell phone usage
will be outlawed in cars so there will need to be a device that I can think
my text messages, or think my emails and it will pick up on these thoughts
and do them.
Cool. We should be richer and more technologically capable in 10 years and I hope that can translate into more options for how we spend our time. I would
choose to spend more time with the people I care about sharing common
experiences. It is hard for me to imagine a sufficiently close
technological substitute for physically being with someone, so I hope to
share my feelings face to face, in person, more than is possible for me
now. However, what I expect is that I will rely on technological interfaces for
even more of these interactions than I do now, partly because the
technology will be better and partly because I’ll feel like I have even
less time for the people I care about than I do now. Because it is the
easiest path for innovation and ten years isn’t that far away, I would
guess that means I’ll be using some hi-def, hi-fi, wireless, mobile,
VR-like, smell-o-rama version of Skype.
you know I'm a grumpy old fart, I'll just growl at people, or I'll be so old by than, I'll just blink for people to change my diaper. so...not sure, but I imagine you would still communicate using touch and words when you around loved ones, and you would use technology available at the time to bridge distance.... In my opinion, the aim should be to virtualise being with a loved one. If this gets first prize, I want half.
Legally by twittering to my interlinked social networks, which filter my
tweets by content (so my work friends don't get my dj tweets, and vice
versa, unless they want to). Illegally by spraypainting graffiti
embedded with rfid tags that project additional augmented reality
content to passers-by, who view it with their AR-enabled contact lenses.
LynJ: #2019 with help of handheld via streaming video clips + app that helps me send real paper things via post to loved ones
The options may be endless but how I share depends on who i am sharing with. Those from the older generation, I still contact and interact the old ways phone calls, cards, and letters. Although the technology is available to them, they still feel that it is cold and impersonal way to to interact. As for the younger set, I send a video message to their ipod. It's like a little movie, I choose the back drop, the music, cast and characters .... computer generated of course. Sure beats leaving a voice mail or a plan card. In fact, this messages are now more popular than the videos on utube. Everyone is sharing how their love ones care about them.
infrarad2019: #2019 addendum: I turn off the feature that measures stress level by amount of stubble. I have limits.
infrarad2019: #2019 Facial recog software let's me frown or smile at my mobile cam.Emo, geo, and chrono tag stats tell me where and when I'm happiest
mrjudkins: @avantgame I share my innermost feelings only face to face with those I trust, the ones I broadcast elsewhere are heavily filtered. #2019
theineffabelle: #2019 My Mood Earings record and interpret my feelings from my brainwaves and post them to my private cell rss my friends all subscribe to.
We will continue to judge one another under the pretense
that we live in a meritocracy where personal virtue is reflected by
professional success. Expressing doubt or unhappiness will be seen as
a sign of weakness or defeatism. Basically, the same as now.
This is all assuming the current world order doesn't implode as a
result of some resource bottleneck or economic depression or
environmental catastrophe or world war or something big like that.
I think for those that are in my very close circle of friends and family, I will still verbally tell them how I feel about them and still send them
birthday and Christmas cards. I think I'll send less emails to them but will be doing just as much or more texting. I also believe I'll be doing more video chatting with them on a personal device that I carry around with me or on my home computer to stay in touch.
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the way I share my feelings in 2019 is through my cogcast of course -- the streaming live webcast of my cognitive functions, using my Neurosky dry cognitive sensor sensor, which I just got in pink, awesome. I have a spoof-cast though for my parents because I don't want them to worry when I'm stressed out!! they think I'm always zen and focused and relaxed. ha.
I just added a Meta-ReactApp to my cogcast-- it's definitely boosted my audience, and boosted my control of muscles I barely knew existed. You learn it by (what else?) playing games that you "win" by getting ever finer control over things like wiggling your ears, raising your eyebrows, winking, etc. It looks a lot like Tourette's at first, but it becomes pretty intuitive. Then, besides cogcasting your True Vitals (aka the autonomic stuff), you can use these physical tweaks to offer metacommentary to a conversation or situation you're in-- without tipping off the outside world, and (once you're used to it) without getting too distracted. I used to go back and tag ironic commentary on my cogcasts, even with this app-- because you can set your own "codes" for each gesture-- but now it's becoming familiar and the codes are standardizing. So I don't bother translating most of my microexpressions into words anymore. There are some things that just don't map onto words anyway-- except for really long German ones that haven't been invented yet. Good idea on the spoofcast, I really need to set up mine!
the way I share my feelings in the year 2019 is through my personal MURP (Mapped User Recording Process). With a touch of the finger, the identification of a print and I am through - to share my feelings with others I touch on their local, to keep my feelings private I choose to record my feeling in my PSS (Personal Saving System).
my cogcast interacts with wallcoverings in my friends homes as well as hug jackets which are all the rage. I have a wild collecction of hugvibes -- the most charged was given me by my sister.
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Besides expressing my feeling verbally to people I am likely to be doing the following:
For people I see face to face regularly I think I will give something they can hold in their hands in front of me.
For people that are remote I am likely to use digital communication.
This is the same process I use today.
Feelings shared: - using my wristpod I let those on my famlist know that I'm having a (good, bad, stupid, etc.) day. They send me back e-plys or vids with comments and words that fit the occasion. If/when we actually meet in person, sincere hugs, firm handshakes, and honest concern will prevail. On a larger scale, using a share modual on my cell or pda, I can send out realtime to any number of cellphones, blogs, ?-casts, etc. and receive instant replys. Life is too fast, and info to quick to digest, we long for the good ol' days.
I will still share though talking. The telephone will ring though the TV when I'm at home, with a personalized song or sound (car horn, something attributed to that individual), and will also emit an odor linked to that person (special cologne, perfume, food, pool, cut grass,etc. An overstuffed chair will respond to a signal to give a hug and squeeze around me.
In 2019 , it is not going to be whole lot different than what young people are doing today. They are on facebook, myspace or others to share their feelings, ideas, videos and photos with everyone using their Computers, hand held devices.
justinpickard: @cascio - Synaesthr(TM) turns the live EEG feed of my brain's electrical activity into an immersive AV experience for my pals. #2019
Come on peeps, we're only talking 10 years from now so we will still, on average, likely be using the same ol' stuff as today (cell, blogs, txt, etc) but with a few twists. These tools will be more integrated and more prevalent though. Wait...gotta run...my telegraph is ringing. :)
I will still want to connect quickly, anytime, anywhere...with my friend serving in Iraq; my childs in a class; my Mom at home or on a trip and away from home; my old classmate/friend that I am not sure of their address/phone/email. I have many more thoughts of touching base or share a prayer/thought with....than I ever actually do. So today I say a quick prayer for them....its quick, meaning, and easy....but do they feel it and know it enough!
kitode: @seanness #2019 - u don't. productivity focused. share moods, not feelings. very homogeneous private lives
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This is very hard to imagine, but I’d say it would depend on WHO I was communicating with and what the occasion was.
My mom (in her 80s by then), it would still be via direct voice conversation over the phone (probably only cell phone by then) or through a mailed or delivered hard copy card, because I do not anticipate her techno savviness to improve much from where it is now.
For anyone in my circle of friends (generation of mid-40s to 60s by 2019) I could see the feelings being communicated much more electronically—either via Internet (email or whatever), or through some cell phone-based medium (voice or visual). Even if it was an actual gift I would likely purchase and ship via the Internet. If the person was someone that I physically saw frequently I might still opt for a hard copy card, or hand delivered gift. But I would also like to be made aware of and become connected to sources that provide me with “event notifications” to help me not forget friends and family (these services are probably available now, but I just haven’t taken the time to connect?).
For anyone in their 20s and 30s by 2019…wow…hard to fathom. Probably feelings would be communicated via some hand-held device—maybe a media presentation with voice? Or a gift that they may self-select electronically? This is already the electronic generation. She still talks to me and her Grandma on the phone very regularly, but so much happens over the Internet between her peers. I am amazed at how much is communicated between them via FaceBook—my daughter barely talks to her friends, most info is shared and learned on social networks. Getting her to send a card or thank you note via regular mail is like pulling teeth. I am fairly techno-savvy, but nothing compared to her. They will be one of the first, true hand-held generations.
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In the year 2019 I will share my feelings with those I care about
through phone calls to check on them and let them know when they are
on my mind, hand written notes and cards, small gifts from time to
time just because I care about them and occasional email.
In 2019, I'd still show my feelings primarily by being physically present
with them, sharing conversation, meals, and experiences. If we can't be
together, then I'd use some type of video communication...maybe
holographic. Otherwise, I still expect some form of audio communication
device will still be around.
I intend for the primary way to share my feelings with those I care about
will still be a personal, face-to-face contact/encounter.
A written note or card still embodies an authentic and genuine feel to the recipient, so that will still be used.
I expect that in 2019 (if I'm still here), about 10 years from now, I
will do the same as I do now to express sentiments to those I care
about--use a card or hand-written note and send it by US or over the
internet or attach it to a gift that is mailed or hand-delivered.
I will tell them face to face when I can and then reinforce that with video chats, phone conversations and egreetings. I will also try to do something special, ie personal for them, like send them flowers or a bottle of wine or some type of small gift that means something to them at least once every couple of months.
My first preference is a hug in person. If it can't be in person I want to send a virtual "hug" with a my voice where we can see each other. I will still use the written word to make a different lasting impression which will communicate how much I care about them.
There will be a new form of "instant messaging" from the "communication
device" I carry to the recipient's device. It will be an evolution of
text/audio/video (+other senses?) that is easy and fast, to capture and
deliver the emotion of the moment.
My hope is that I will ALWAYS be able to tell them directly know matter how far apart we may be. Being proximate to one another would be best. If not, I expect that technology will allow me to "appear" to be proximate to them at their location (eg. as simple as a video call or as complex as a transmitted light-emitting/holographic type technology).
Since we are technological laggers, we are still communicating via email or cell phone.
In 2019, I am able to live closer to family and friends because work does
not require me to be on location - I can work from anywhere at anytime with a smallish hand held computer - about 5" X7" or via my large screen in my home (3'X5'). So, I get together with family and friends often in person and usually share a meal. Food still plays a major role in our cultures and celebrations - but it has become more healthy and organic than it was in the late 20th century/early 21st century - mainly due to the negative impacts that non-organic food has had on our bodies. For those people that are not close, we communicate or gather around our
computers or large screens and talk via live video stream. For closer
connections, we are able to touch the screens and feel the other persons
hand through the screen.
wow, that is a hard question, I would hope that I would a. call them (
talk to them personally is best) b. probably write to them in some
format - a card is still more special than an email - but if you could
record your voice on a card, wouldn't that be the best of both worlds so
the message would be said to them as they opened it?
Even today, with Facebook and MySpace, people are becoming more and more transparent about their daily moods, attitudes and problems they are facing and posting them. In 2019, with mobile devices as popular as personal computers, a person's "friend" list could be updated in real-time on their mobile device and alert them of a friend's posting. This may be available now, but the increased use of mobile devices in the future will keep everyone connected in a more real-time way.
In 2019 I will connect with the knowledge center to contribute ideas and gather them. Today, that center happens to be Barb, but in 2019, she will have enlisted some technological solutions to upload, store and retrieve knowledge in addition to offering some options in teleporting so we can have these conversations over wings and a bud lite.
VideoCard sent by snail-mail.
I'll continue to share by feelings with my friends and family the good old-fashioned way, one-on-one, in-person.
The way I would share feeling in 2019 is through live video communication through mobile devices...this way I can speak, see, any time any where with those most important to me.
In 2019 I show my feelings to my early 20's children through a touch screen web cam where I can talk to & see them as needed, no more texting only "face to face" talking. For my husband I continue to give and expect to get on anniversaries those wonderful sappy hallmark cards that best express what we feel but don't speak on a daily basis
In 2019, I will express my feelings in many of the same ways I do now: in person, via some type of voice carrying mode and in writing. However, the mode that conveys my "written" comments may be different in 2019. Instead of creating a hand written card or note to convey my feelings as I do now, in 2019, I may do it digitally (but in an attractive way) so that it can be saved for future reference.
the way I share my feelings in 2019. BIO LINKS. I can automatically have my mood information displayed on my families and friends BIO LINK. When I am happy they see I am happy, when I am Sad they see I am sad. When I am grateful I can automatically send them a Hallmark BIO TAG Card. This BIO Link would also allow for my information to automatically be shared with people like Doctors to Servers. Everyone would automatically know how I am feeling, what is good or wrong all the way to what I am needing for a food source.
Whoa, that's hard to answer, since all I can imagine is what I know today. The way I will share my feelings in 2019 will be many, and varied, if I choose to make it so. For example, my clothes may respond to my mood based on the chemicals embedded in the fibers. Certain colors may mean I'm mad, sad, disgusted, frustrated, enamored, etc. I may not want that level of transparency, but it will probably be available. There will be the option of many sensors that I may encounter during my day that may not only record my movements and positions, but may be able to decifer my facial expressions and assess my feelings. These sensors may be available to others I let in to know how I'm feeling. It may be possible to transmit touch between individuals who are separated by distance. I touch a device and it transmits the sensation to someone else on the other end who is also touching the device. There will be no substitute for a hug and a kiss which will be done face to face. I doubt many people will relly want their feelings to be as transparent as technology my enable by 2019. By 2019 the technology will not be widespread enough to influence how feelings are shared for more than a small proportion of the population. Feelings will probably remain a more private space than public space, even in 2019.
In 11 years my sisters and I will watch T.V. together and laugh out loud just as we did when we were kids. My sisters are in Florida and Tennessee and I am in Kansas, but we will each log onto an interactive studio T.V.-cast and actually be part of the studio audience. Then we will continue to chat live long after the program is over - reminiscing about the good 'ol days of bad after school specials and comedies with canned laugh tracks!
on sharing feelings - Of course the traditional face-to-face means will still be available. But for those who want to share feelings with someone far away, their chip implant, powered by Google, allows them to simply imagine the person they want to share a feeling with and the face-matching technology knows whose chip to send the message to. The sender just imagines the message and it's transmitted to the recipient's chip for immediate messaging or for picking up the message later. The chip implant technology is quite convenient but can sometimes get a sender into trouble if they didn't really mean to transmit a feeling of "you frustrate me" to mother-in-law, for instance.
I will share my feelings through speaking directly, human touch, body language, and then the telephone, internet communication, gift giving, sending mail, and there might be something new by then! :o)
I also think that biotechnology is the is the wave of the future. Unlockng DNA will show the how the greatest database/network invented works. However in 2019 I will show people I care my feelings by simply telling them technology will only be put into play as a means to deliver my personal message. It could be face to face or a hologram message/interaction as if I was in the room with them.
Most people share their feelings by quietly sobbing while sitting in the soup kitchen line. Occasionally, people go out and beat others senseless to express their displeasure with the state of the world.
The speed and immersion of ambient intimacy of 2019 makes Twitter look like a trans-Atlantic ocean liner.You're always connected to a cloud of tiny status updates -- many of them now shorthand, symbolic -- from your friends, colleagues, & from others in your area.It's easy to check in to the general mood of the people you're hanging out with -- and how they're trending -- and that genuinely helps people deal w/ each other better.In a way, we've all become mind-readers.BUT, it's become an act of incredible respect (and sometimes intimacy) to *shut off* all the ambient inputs when you're spending time with someone. On a first date you bring flowers and mute the feeds.
The way I show my my feelings with my tribe is through facial expressions and body languague. I share my feelings through face-to-face dialogues, phone conversations, text messages, emails, and instant messages.
the way I share my feeling in 2019 is through my thought-sensor stream. My neuroscan is always available to my tribe and my thoughts are instantly shared by simply voicing them to my always-on recorder.
At the moment I imagine it will be all about mobile devices but there will be a residue of hard core old timers like myself that still see the value of ink on paper. To me there is no current replacement for the meaning embodied in a card, it says I went to the trouble of picking this out and mailing it but the development curve of more intimate and meaningful communication through technologies such as Flash, coupled to the pervasiveness of mobile devices and a new generation to whom cell phones are an almost ‘ natural’ technology will drive new forms of social communication. Ease of access, ubiquity, simplicity and brevity seem to be key signifiers of communication now. My Kids will be 21 and 15 in 2019, I hope they will still talk to me and if I anticipate that the form of communication will be more driven by their tastes than mine. Having said that my mother is 71 and has just discovered email and is absolutely addicted to email and photos through email so the older generation will adapt….hopefully Social communication is still a reality in 2019….good luck with the experiment , it is certainly a thought provoker, Seb
I'll share my feelings via constant video and text contact with my
friends, primarily using my phone to do so. We'll chat in small
bytes, between tasks at work and home. Most conversations will be cut
much shorter, so we'll have to be more direct with our words. Some
poetry will be lost, but we'll make up for it with our increased
self-awareness and ability to connect emotionally much more quickly.
Conversations might go something like this: "I'm depressed." "Why?"
"Because my resentment towards the restrictions of the workplace are
starting to surface in my everyday life." Etc. Face-to-face contact will continue to be most valuable and fulfililng, in part because it will allow people to follow-up on the above sorts of conversations.
Less time seeing relatives because of busy schedules. More folks will
know how to use the computer so emailing (of some type) or video
texting, will be the wave of the future. Close personal contact will
still be used, but the circle will get smaller. Personal occasions will
use cards because, we save all cards given to the kids and received by
the kids. Since we another child on the way, we will continue to observe
some of the same traditions because I'm old fashioned and do not want
the world to speed up too fast
I believe virtualization technology will increasingly take the place of all but the most intimate and "milestone-ish" of occasions. In an increasingly hectic lifestyle people will "be there" and share
experiences virtually through electronic social networking. This is already happening, but 10 years from now it will be mainstream and
quite pervasive. I was in New York last week and shared the experience of Battery Park and Times Square with my family via emailed
photos and chat in real time as I stood in those locations. When I returned to the hotel room we had a video conference for my eldest
daughter's birthday which was that day. She received an electronic greeting card from me that morning, but no physical card from anyone
in her immediate family. In 10 years time I also think we will be doing some type of holographic virtual presence that will feel much
more like "being there" without physical travel. Although this will enable connectedness with our "tribe" I think that the "tribe" will be smaller than our current circles of close relatives/friends
Turns out my girlfriend was sleeping with the drummer of The Sharks of Venice. WTF, a drummer!? I didn't even know she was into body mods! Ah well, such is 2019. Thing is though, I am pissed. Volcanically pissed. I dont just want her out of her my apartment, I want her out of my life. And defriending her from our various social web connections, our phone-links, the text messages, the video chat archive, the bluetooth one mile proximity alert, the GPS locators, etc, etc, etc. UGH! Luckily my Mac OS XV update came with a handy little app called Purge. Select just one of your items of contact with target person and it goes through and un-installs my now-ex. Thanks, Cyborg Steve Jobs.
PaulBHartzog: #2019 I share my feelings by broadcasting music and colors. Today, Suzanne Vega's "Pilgrimage" and deep green.
can imagine using device that's always with me, in my case it would be eyeglasses, which responds to voice commands, and manages all the 'data' in my life.I'd instantly be able capture images, personal photos, meaningful pieces of content, including editorial that helps me to express the right emotions for the right occasions, with the ease of voice commands."
Even if mistrust is the major mood of the society, there are also many new ways to bring some harmonic developments to the societies: with the art, with the culture. Everybody is involved in various art actions and societies, art is so highly respected in the society, that everybody want to be included in the main cultural development. It is the new Renaissance of the arts - with new ways and new ideas. The art is perhaps the only way that keep the society 2019 far away from global slaughter. Sure, there are many ways to understand the art and the seeing of the world. It can be very controversial. But people of 2019 understand, that every cultural differencies they can handle in an intellectual/creative way. And there are many ARG projects. Already after 2008 people understood, such communicative cooperative society game can bring very different people together. There are so many arts and genres of ARG, so we can compare it with literature. People want to participate, so Alternate Reality Games is the future of our entertainment (and are not a plain entertainment, but productive and creative human cooperation).
I guess I foresee having conversations/connecting in a virtual space but
that feels real - for example - video conferencing but maybe holographic - thinking along the lines of "Star Wars" where you show up as a holographic type image. Maybe that is a bit farther out than 2019, but who knows. Now that relates to a more "presence" at a distance approach. To show my feelings I believe I will be able to send virtual greetings easily. I still believe tangible items (cards, gifts, etc.) will still play a big role, but with more integration of digital items/components, etc.
Hopefully in 10 years I will be communicating with my grandchildren and my favorite way to share my feelings is still the old fashioned way of hugs and kisses. However, when that isn't possible, I have my very popular ring-view -- fashion jewelry that doubles as a audio & video communication device. I have selected who can communicate with me on this device so there is absolutely no unwanted communication. With my network of friends, we have a virtual network set up so as they travel around the world, they can ping me and I'm right there with them as they climb mountains or walk the streets of far off cities.
How I share my feelings in 2019 is not much different from 2008....I will communicate in person, by phone, and by email or text messages. But in 2019, clothing and everyday items will also communicate my feelings and needs; they will have the sensing ability and can communicate information about me to my family, friends, and healthcare providers. Perhaps, an orb in my house displays my daughter's emotions, which have been collected and transmitted from her clothing, to let me know she's had a hard day at school so when she comes home I can attend to her.
I assume I will share my feelings through direct contact, either by face to face or a phone call. I feel personal interaction has greater value in expressing feelings.
In 2019, it will be much more common to share intimate feelings - the really important stuff like vulnerability and love and fear - in some form of digital communication, than it will be to share them in person. A certain portion of us will have lost our skills at communicating such intimacy face to face, or human to human, without a platform or medium on which to communicate. We will still interact with people like our families and co-workers and friends face to face. But the communications will be become increasingly meaningless. We will bare our souls in a digital format (text, social network, whatever comes next.) However, there will be an underground movement of people who get together, anonymously, and share their most intimate thoughts and feelings. These emotional orgies will happen in some sort of emotional speakeasy. You need a password to get in. If you get caught there you risk some sort of shame or sanction. But it's really the place that all the cool kids go.
grohac: @avantgame #2019 I try not to actually. Before things went south I tried to hide a lot, and since I've been helping more people. I can't...
toadstar: @avantgame #2019 I have a small hobit hole with an encrypted door. Only people in my web of trust have the hex key to enter. There we talk..
mrjudkins: @avantgame I share my innermost feelings only face to face with those I trust, the ones I broadcast elsewhere are heavily filtered. #2019
I would send a Hallmark card.
infrarad2019: #2019 Feelings: m2m drift is solved server-side.I publish everything to 1 aggregator & set reader permissions: Student,Friend,Private,Public
kitode: @seanness #2019 - u don't. productivity focused. share moods, not feelings. very homogeneous private lives
Telepathic cards
Hallmark Hologram
To show how I will share my feelings with others in 2019 --
1. Send a hologram (sp)
2. Sing a song on the iphone
3. Send flowers
4. Send a Card that talks
5. Send a big hug and kiss --
6. Send a sweater that can give a hug
7. Send a coffee cup that kisses back
8. Send a touch
In 2019 telathapy skills have increased to such a rate that there is a new description of the haves and the have-nots. The "haves" have taken time to evolve their brain's capability to communicate with interspecies and have found an incredibly peaceful way to express needs, desires, and wants. They can problem solve and resolve conflicts at a record pace. The "have nots" have been quarantined and are seen as dangerous Neanderthals still dependent on foreign devices to interpret or misconstrue their communications.
The hardest part of ambient intimacy in 2019 is still deciding whom you allow to see your face. Social networking and contacts list try to manage what kind of contact you allow people to have when you're using a machine: text-only, voice-only, voice-and-video? Teenagers are face-friends with almost everyone they know; as long as they're logged in and in front of a video-capable machine, anyone in their contact list can see them and start a conversation. For the middle-aged, it's the last wall of privacy. They prefer text-chat; it's harder for them to concentrate on other tasks when they have to look at someone. Standards of personal appearance have decreased. People are gradually used to seeing each other in every state of undress. But the people whom you do see grow closer. They can see how you feel, how tired you are, whether or not you're sick or depressed. That undisguised world once reserved for people who live together grows larger.
anness: #2019 I share my feelings through my always-on neuro/voice/thought recorder. People think I share to much...it helps people know me better
Art and criticism in the first decade of the 21st century had to move beyond the ironic and post-modern into post-ironic, post-post-modern, and every other post-post- prefix bloggers, critics and the ever-growing pool of opinion-influencers could muster. By 2019, after the bottom fell out of the 'snark market' (sic), the Western art world is in the middle of a movement called The New Authenticity. Musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, etc have all begun to strive to make the most authentic and personal possible work. Not as a way of critiquing society, or exploring their psychoanalytic problems, but simply as pure expression. Interestingly, this has also become the norm in criticism, in which snarky ironic commentary has become unpopular.
WELLO: #blended #2019 sorry team genexile. all new is "feelings are so 2008" and "in 2019 i will share my feelings with purity and innocence" haha
oh no! am I too late? How's this: by 2019, the thoughtwave will have been sequenced. People's emotions are discovered to be comprised, like the genome, of a long, complex but ultimately sequenceable series of chemical identifiers. There will be a vast Emotions Table (like the Periodic Table), with every emotional nuance, the subtlest and most complex sensation, identifiably sequenced. The feeling one gets when one opens the fridge on a hot day and discovers a plate of cold, cut watermelon slices -- the feeling Bob has towards his best friend Bill when Bill gets into the college Bob doesn't, that strange, sad mingling of intense, bitter pride -- that nameless pain one feels when you fall violently in love with the sunset, and cannot make your neighbour understand your rapture -- all catalogued, sequenced, and entirely searchable. No longer will search be dependent on the purely semantic, which at any rate, is utterly useless for the emotional; we will be able to search and identify people all over the world, everywhere, everytime, every place, who are feeling exactly, precisely the same way as we are. It will create marvellous camaraderie. And also cause WW3.
All the ways we do now, plus through highly connected "smart" sensory
objects; e.g. my Christmas tree connects to all my relatives' trees,
my wedding ring connects to my wife's, etc.
In the year 2019 or 11 years from now, I hope to share my feelings with those I care about in a direct personal way. Depending on the situation that may be a phone call, scype, or via a computer/video link. I could imagine hand-held digital cellular scype for many instances.
In 2019, I will take my client, the beautiful daughter of a Jewish department store owner, out for a drink, and we will smoke and listen to music, realize deep truths about the constraints of our mutual gender roles, and for some reason I will accidentally confide in her when I think I'm making a joke: "I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."
We will have some sort of telepathic devise that will allow us to send our thoughts directly to each other.
In 2019, I will be swinging on the gate of being 60 years old and probably a grampa by that time. I hope I am showing my feelings the way I always have, saying I love you, big hugs, smoochy kisses, unexpected gifts and primarily, by praying for those that I love.
Feelings will be shared through joint experiences in person if possible. Traveling together, playing together in person, playing together remotely using technology—distance gaming through combination of virtual reality and voice/video/3d conversation. We will spend time creating the ideal virtual reality environment and then invite our loved-ones to join us in the virtual space we created to share a special sentiment or celebrate an accomplishment/award.
If we are separated by distance I expect that virtual reality will allow us to travel together virtually without being together physically. For example going to a play together in New York when one person is in KC and the other in Orlando. Visiting Disney World together when we are remote from one another. Creating personalized gifts using technology tools and then having them automatically produced locally and delivered the next day. Creating personalized sentimental expressions by combining professionally designed modules in a unique and personal way to achieve the desired mood and sentiment—possibly in a second life like fantasy world.
Consider in the movies when a person has some near-death experience or
other dramatic moment where their life or a series of important life
events flashes through their mind. We see images, sounds, colors we
are transported through time and experience.
Now suppose we have devices that are always with us which give us the
ability to become aware of our underlying physiological state, an
opportunity to become aware of our present emotional state. This gives
us the ability to recored and annotate what we are experiencing. Over
time we would build a repository of experiences, each experience
having images, sounds, personal notes attached to them, we could even
have the recorded physiological data color the experience, i.e. create
some sort of visualization that represents the affective state. From
our repository (life experiences) we can create a collage of life's
moments.
Scenario: Your child graduates college.
Emotions: Proud, Love, Joy.
Your child just graduated and you want her/him to know just how you
feel. From your "Life's Moments" repository you quickly search for all
experiences related to your child's name and the emotional states you
want to express. You are given a list from with you can easily compile
a collage of moments that you want to share. Once the collage is done
you can share it via different media with your child.
I'm only comfortable sharing my feelings face-to-face, in real life. I don't really talk about them in mediated environments. So for me 2019 is basically like 2008.
Its a dream come true this year!!. I always envisioned a society where
basic needs are available for disposal 24/7. Now the statement "You can get a pizza delivery faster than an ambulance to get to a hostpital" does not hold good anymore. Efforts to improve basic infrastructure like roads, public transportation & other amenities certainly paid off!!.
same ways as people have for thousands of years - face to face, talking,
just being there, gifts, notes, playing, joking, activities.
these age old ways of showing your feelings will be enabled by (in addition
to current modes) new and existing communication tech.
mtowns2: #2019 I spend time with them, buy them gifts, talk on the phone, send emails and text messages
CA_Rose: #2019: society: to keep it real with my "tribe" I would want a combination of online and offline two-way connections to show my feelings.
WELLO: #blended #2019 in 2019 i'll share my feelings through projecting intuitive, generative, visual abstractions that others can interact with
WELLO: #blended #2019 "in 2019 i'll share my feelings with my 2019 fist in your 0000 face, mr. stupid question!"
WELLO: #blended #2019 "in 2019 i'll share my feelings with everybody all the time like a big world orgy"
I give out snippets from my personal voice recorded Journal. Here's how I see it played out: I emailed a snippet from an mp3 file of my voice in my smartphone's diary app to Hallmark.com and they transcribed it into text, put it on a card along with a picture from my flickr account, put my actual voice from the diary file into the soundchip on the card with some romantic music playing in the background, then mailed it to my sweetie for a surprise from me out of the blue. Oh and they even texted her one of their pre-selected prose options as a little clue that something would be coming, so she would be curiously checking the postal mail until it showed up 3 days later. Or I bypassed the card altogether and just had them digitize the whole "card" experience and send it to her as a multimedia message so she could post it on facebook along with her caption, "Isn't my guy the best!" For all her girlfriends to be jealous. :)
I still see sharing those feelings face to face and to me that would be the most important. Saying that I would show my feeling with items or experiences that are personal, intimate and "customized" to the individual or our relationship. It could be a communication device that we are able to use that addresses our relationship. A gift perhaps that relates to the relationship. Also it would need to be immediate and easy to use or deliver. It could be an event that I give or share with them, in person or via cyberspace.
the assumption seems to be that so much will change in 10 years ... and it probably will but I don't believe how I express my feeling will change though the medium with which I express them may. I need reflection as my voice can't always articulate what my mind desires. Processing on the feeling, what it means to me and how it may be interpreted by others will still require thought which requires time which for me is best done in writing. Whether that be typing out a message on a key board, tapping it out on a phone key pad or the one I still like best, crafting a written letter, isn't as important.