These concepts are always great the way they seem to flawlessy blend everything together, but there's alot of things that would outway it's possible development as much as the costs, practicality and maintenace if it were to be used as road signs and stuff like that. Alot of today's technology is old, bringing it uptodate so that everything worked with everything would just send us back to the stoneage. On a small scale like a household it might be possible though...apart from the glass phone
ProperBritish Wrote: [ -> ]if it were to happen everything would have to be made by one almighty, all compatible company
Isn't that what's already happening? I mean, how many applications aren't compatible with Windows these days? Even open source applications are taking the effort to make themselves compatible with MS's product.
I'm sure companies
do want to collaborate. Perhaps not in the best interests of consumers, but they do want to collaborate if it can give mutual gain.
ProperBritish Wrote: [ -> ]not to mention everything in the world would become out of date as soon as a new version of the OS everything runs on came out.
Backwards compatibility has always been a key selling point in the technology world, though maintaining that may be difficult, yes.
I still don't think many of the concepts are terribly likely, I mean, for example, the road signs. Do they really offer tangible benefits enough to justify the cost of Governments replacing older signs?