what will the future look like

I have started writing letters to my 8 month old telling her what i think her life will be like in 25 years. It is a challenging and scary thing to do. No not writing, but taking a position - a position on the future. There have been a long line of thought tormented people in history who have been labeled as futurists who really never turned out to be anything than just weird people. A friend of mine put me onto MirrorWorlds by David Gerlertner who wrote, in the 80's remember, about how much software and computers were going to shape our future. I would say in general terms that he has overshot himself a bit as much of what he talks about has not come to real tangible terms, but nonetheless I do think he is on the right track. This book also got me wondering about how we interact with computers, i think i talked about this in another post but it still causes me concern. We should see some major design changes with respect to computers, in fact i think computers as we know it today will not be as important - they will become a quick antique. The interaction with computers will nto go away in fact i see it as something that will increase, i just do not see us sitting in front of boxes with square screens and the constant drone of the computer fan eating away at our sanity.

computers will be in the fabric of our buildings, processing will take place outside of our physical space and our visual interaction with computers will be tailored to our eyes and will make more use of other senses. Much of unnatural environment will be shaped by this change