What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
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A sleeping pod for home.
Imagine as you go to sleep it is perfect temperature for you no need for open windows or extra blankets. You just turn the dial and it adjusts it or maybe it even have a curve so that you love for it start cold but wake up warm.
It is pitch black, no need to try block out any light.
It completely soundproof even if you live middle of the city. But it also have speakers just in case you like something in background as you sleep.
I think the future of next-gen housing will be something like this. I've been hearing stories on HackerNews about young developers earning good salaries in SF, unable to find a place to rent, so instead opt to live in their cars and go shower at the gym. They do this happily, and it doesn't bother them.
As someone who used to frequently sleep under his desk as work in my early 20s, I can see portable sleep pods being a really good substitute for the inner city housing problem.
That insane! I was thinking like a bed 2.0 not freaking dystopian let’s live in a bed sized apartment.
When you say happily you mean it is better than living in your car right?
That surely can’t be the future that you get!
I'd prefer a house and a garden too, but that's unlikely for a lot of people now. It's just not the world we live in. You either are a homeowner, pay exorbitant rent, or are homeless.
Instead of having nothing between homeless and rising rent, it'd be nice to have an inbetween option.
You can wish for any gadget. Just wish for the Capitalism-Destroyer-Button if you want affordable housing. Or fuck, wish for a Halo and rent out the land on it.
I've slowly learned that wishing for radical change usually is fruitless when the working class have no weapons at their disposal or are too meek to use them..., and even when wielded the changes are so destabilising that the number of wishes double.
Capitalism will die kicking and screaming, and it will take everyone with it if it has to. No, I would rather undermine it by providing a free/cheap alternative to an inflated commodity through the use of rapid new tech, forcing long-time investors to look elsewhere for a profit. Once a market is no longer cornered, things usually settle down.
Slowly, slowly, if repeated enough, and with enough technological development, investors will have no idea where to invest to exploit consumers.
We're talking about a magic button that can do anything. Are you so imprisoned by hopelessness that you can't even imagine a magic solution to your problems?
No, I just believe that large changes are cursed, and small changes in the right direction might be enough to enact a bigger change. Think of it like a genie that allows you to wish for anything (likely with cursed results), vs 1000 genies that allow you to wish for small things (also cursed, but with smaller side effects).
I would rather kill myself than live like that.
American culture around work honestly seems completely fucking nuts.
This was in the UK. I lived on one side of the city right next to a motoroway where it was too loud to sleep and I had no internet. My workplace was on the other of the city. On a rainy night, I didn't always fancy cycling that distance just to get home for 3 hours of subpar sleep. Sleeping a half-decent 6-7 hours under my desk and then showering the next morning was much easier.
a really good substitute for the inner city housing problem
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I would love this - except that my wife and I would want completely different ambient temperatures and I don't want to sleep in a different pod from her.
Yeah thats bit rough but maybe like one side you heat the wall, bottom and roof it could offset a bit? The other side cools just a tiny bit. You would not get as cold as you want but maybe it would be good enough compromise.
Plus if you have the problem of her hoarding bed less likely she does on your side.
But if you are the bed hoarder it probably won’t help her.
My cats would not like this. How would they tell me about their empty food bowl at 4AM?