TobyBartels comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 02 January 2011 05:07:17PM 2 points [-]

Prediction request for emergence of usable (commercial grade or easy DIY) eyewear computing of this sort

http://www.lumus-optical.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=15

http://blog.2yb.org/2010/07/cd-case-wearable-computer.html

Please feel free to state your distributions beyond 2011

Comment author: Miller 02 January 2011 05:48:20PM 2 points [-]

This is one of the predictions I would include in my list for key trends over the span of this decade (rather than year). I might in weaker moments also conjunction fallacy it as an Apple product. I think there are some prereqs that still need to be addressed at this point including further maturation of mobile apps, some addressing of social acceptance of life tracking-style media recording, battery life, etc. So yeah.. S curve cumulative probability hitting 50% around 2020 that these achieve iPod like sales figures.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 02 January 2011 07:17:41PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, including the Apple conjunction fallacy.

Comment author: orangecat 04 January 2011 10:31:24PM 0 points [-]

75% probability of being mainstream, or at least not unusual, by 2020. It seems like the obvious solution: phone screens are too small, laptops and even tablets are too inconvenient to carry around constantly. And I'd go 50/30/20 on the first mass market product being based on Android/Apple/other. (With Android, anybody can build it without asking for permission).

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 05 January 2011 03:43:37AM 1 point [-]

The argument for Apple is that a killer-quality device in this category would require serious UI support from the OS, possibly new interactions (eye tracking for example).

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2011 01:18:10AM 0 points [-]