SMARTPHONES: The smartphone you’re holding right now is 1 million times more powerful than the computer (4kb RAM) used in the Apollo 11 mission to send the first man on the Moon in 1969. The first commercial GPS receiver in 1981 weighed 24kg and cost $119,900. Today, a single chip, smaller-than-fingernail GPS receiver cost less than $5 each. It’s on most smartphones (which allows the food delivery guy to find you more easily). Computer chips continue to shrink, increase in power and become more ubiquitous, alongside the apps that support these functions. It doesn’t stop there. By 2030, it’s not hard to image that smartphones could have holographic display which could render 3D images, that can be hooked up to a 3D printer, or perhaps project visuals that could “float" above the device, viewable from any angle, no need for 3D glasses.
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