“When Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, the two Steves assumed it would last forever,” Jon Swartz reports for USA Today. “Woz still believes that’s true. In fact, he’s convinced Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075, the theme of next weekend’s Silicon Valley Comic Con (SVCC), ‘The Future of Humanity: Where Will We Be in 2075?'”
“‘Apple will be around a long time, like IBM (which was founded in 1911),’ Wozniak said in an interview on Friday. ‘Look at Apple’s cash ($246.1 billion, as of the end of its last fiscal quarter). It can invest in anything. It would be ridiculous to not expect them to be around (in 2075). The same goes for Google and Facebook,'” Swartz reports. “Deserts could be ideal locations for cities of the future, designed and built from scratch, according to Wozniak. There, housing problems will not exist and people will shuttle among domed structures. Special wearable suits will allow people to venture outside, he said.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully, he’s wrong about Facebook’s continued existence (unless it changes dramatically from what it is today).
Now, shuttling around domed desert cities sound interesting, except for the one thing Woz understandably left out: Carousel.
It sucks to turn 30.
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Sweet Woz. He always was a bit of a lightweight when it came to the herb. 😉
There may be no deserts to need to build on when these types of devices are perfected: “This new solar-powered device can pull water straight from the desert air”
pretty cool, on a large scale this principle could deserts into Napa Valley?
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/new-solar-powered-device-can-pull-water-straight-desert-air
excerpt from above linked story:
“It has been a longstanding dream” to harvest water from desert air, says Mercouri Kanatzidis, a chemist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who wasn’t involved with the work. “This demonstration … is a significant proof of concept.” It’s also one that Yaghi says has plenty of room for improvement. For starters, zirconium costs $150 a kilogram, making water-harvesting devices too expensive to be broadly useful. However, Yaghi says his group has already had early success in designing water-grabbing MOFs that replace zirconium with aluminum, a metal that is 100 times cheaper. That could make future water harvesters cheap enough not only to slake the thirst of people in arid regions, but perhaps even supply water to farmers in the desert.”
So “moisture farming” ala Star Wars could be a real thing in that realm known as “the future.”
neat, huh?
Nukes promised unlimited clean power. False.
The oceans provided unlimited waste disposal. False.
Trees provided an unlimited source of wood. False.
Streams provided an unlimited supply of clean water. False.
Air will provide an unlimited amt. of water. I say false.
And if the Wall St. corporation thinks that it can wrench an unlimited amt. of water from air, it will foist yet another corporate-based environmental catastrophe on to normal people while the corporation and its dukes and oligarchs would be able to simply pay for clean water and upscale living conditions.
another “Yes, we can’t’er.”
“…stick it to da’ man! It’s da’ corporations a-fückin’ us little people over, takin’ it to da’ streets, er.. hang on, gotta text on my iPhone from Merrill-Lynch.” – Not Unlimited Supply
Insulting someone is not a substitute for actually addressing someone’s points, Belligerent Asswipe.
Stay woke, Cocoa Boy, stay woke.
Wow. Perhaps you’d like to explain what you meant by that comment – particularly your word choices?
It’s a Maxinism™, as uttered last Sunday by the always articulate, the always eloquent Maxine Waters.
You really are an idiot. Planet Earth is a closed system. It simply cannot sustain unlimited human population growth, no matter how much water can be squeezed out of desert air. Also, continued human production of CO2 will have consequences. Whether you believe in Bannon-Breitbart-Trump “science” or not. Science does not care what idiots think… It just goes on.
“And yet, it moves.”
Yo Woz, make sure whoever moves to the desert brings a lifetime supply of fresh water with them. You know, just like they did when they built Vegas.
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic. The fact that Woz feels the need to continue to comment on the tech industry or the desperate tech media that hang on his word as if it holds any relevance.
Look, we all love and admire Woz for his contributions to personal computing in the 70’s. However, his comments and future predictions are as meaningless as the average forum poster.
We won’t be here, Woz.
Hitting the sauce again. I wish I could hang with him. “Dude, we’ll be dead in 2075. Let’s go to HOOTERS! Let me pretend to be the rich guy this time!”
BTW… I live in Los Angeles. I already live in a desert.
In LA: We knew that. We can see/hear everything thru your phone.
Who knows. Maybe desert soils are better for farming , when properly irrigated.
Domed cities/structures, suits to walk outside. What is Woz thinking? Mars climate coming to Earth or cities going to Mars.
I think, as the temperature rises, we could expect the green belt to move north. With longer going days during the summer months, we could have some amazing vegetation in Canada and Alaska.
I can confirm that the Sonoran desert in southern Arizona has very good soil and when properly irrigated produces outstanding crops.
I don’t get the wearable suit thing Woz is talking about though. Sun screen works just fine here.
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ttm: again, we knew that.
Woz is right. We should terraform the planet earth first. Establishing colonies in Mars is more expensive than establishing them here.
Anthropomorphic global warming will kill all of us first. Yea!
Quite funny, assuming you used the misnomer intentionally.
At least Woz has vision for the future!