The spider computer - a look into the future
According to Wikipedia, Joe 90 was a 1968 television series about the adventures of nine year-old Joe McClaine. It was set in the future (2013) and was made by Gerry Anderson in ‘Supermarionation’ – remember that?
The important thing though is that Joe had a gadget – pair of special spectacles – that gave him expert abilities (through brain impulse transfer obviously) when he put them on. I was a nine year-old myself at the time and I really, really, really wanted a pair of those specs.
Getting to the point though; Ericsson has a vision for the future (say 2020) and for the sort of life we’ll be living and the sorts of devices we’ll all be using by then. There’s a Life in 2020 microsite that explains all about it.
This was picked up recently by a site I’d not been to before, Reg Hardware, who featured the site and some of the devices.
One of those devices is the Spider Computer, which is a “highly mobile yet ultra powerful computer and mobile phone”. I think Joe 90 would have really, really, really liked one.
