Talk:Future artefacts

Layout
The layout of the 'Future Artefacts' page looks pretty bad in Firefox (the browser I use). Do we want to go for a style using tables like in Gallery, or is there a better way? JC 20:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Other Artefacts
I'm thinking of adding a list of 'everyday objects' and descriptions of how they might change. But perhaps that is too speculative. Anyway here is a possible list:JC 20:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Bicycle - Custom manufacturing leads to custom made bicycles, made to size.
 * Cooker - Miniaturization principle suggests heating rods that you stick into potatoes, meat etc to cook it.
 * Fridge - GMO fruit, veg, milk, eggs, butter keeps for weeks outside fridge. Fridge smaller, used much less.  Crushed ice (not ice cubes) produced on-demand as needed from kitchen tap.
 * Cutlery and crockery - Increasing shift to 'finger food' and food that is its own container, e.g. soup-served-in-a-bread-roll. You eat the roll after the soup.
 * Wallet - No need in most places. A computer IDs you from many factors, retina, thumbprint, voice pattern...
 * Calculator - ask your Mobile phone.
 * Television and Radio - becomes VR.
 * Fans - Rotary becomes piezzo-electric vibrating fan.
 * Central Heating - Smaller, thinner bore pipes, using super heated steam.
 * Toilet - Space toilet, vacuum rather than water based.

Artefacts described elsewhere

 * Clothing - Illuminated, custom made, new fashion based on optical-illusion using computer-design techniques to optimise shape flattering effect.
 * Computer - Processor unit integrating both memory and processor becomes a plug-in, in same way that USB memory sticks and SD cards currently are.
 * Car
 * Lighting - LEDS, psychological lighting.
 * Mobile phone - becomes a cochlear implant.