On: Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025

[Apocryphon]

Hey, we're between two to twenty-seven years early for this revisit.

> In Vinge’s 2025, people can send silent messages without talking or (openly) typing. It does feel like the kind of application that could take off.

Subvocally?

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=933

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=434

[shostack → Apocryphon]

I've been wondering if a ring-shaped input device paired with AR glasses where you can see texts and typing suggestions could enable that.

With some innovation in keyboard UI and swipe+style typing (which I struggle to live without when I don't have it), that seems quite feasible, especially when paired with possible advancements in predictive text.

[germinalphrase → Apocryphon]

Great. Now someone’s gonna hack my inner thoughts directly.

[cma → Apocryphon]

Or the CTRL-labs wristband thing FB/Meta acquired.