Open Thread: What’s Your Future Tech Wish?

It’s almost time for CES (the Computer Electronics Show) the annual gathering where tech titans and wanna be titans, visionaries and inventors gather to showcase their tech visions made real.

Previous years have featured tech that seemed impossible at the time – robots, wearable technology to monitor practically anything, and gadgets to make life safer, smarter, easier.

Still I can’t help thinking I could make a few helpful suggestions of tech that would improve my quality of life.

Future Tech Wish List

Personally I would like to see:

-technology that would instantly turn down the volume of music played at ear-shattering volume in passing cars, in neighbor’s backyards and in boomboxes by wanna-be subway performers.

-hearing aids that automatically filter out background noise and use AI to fill in the clarity in speech that I’ve been losing every year.  Just making things louder isn’t the answer, people!

YOUR TURN

But that’s me.  What technology are you hoping to see at CES, now or in the future? Take our short poll to register what general tech categories you are most interested in.  And share your dreams and ideas in the comments – and we’ll ask our CES correspondent to look for them among the booths at CES in January!

Virge Randall is Senior Planet’s Managing Editor. She is also a freelance culture reporter who seeks out hidden gems and unsung (or undersung) treasures for Straus Newspapers; her blog “Don’t Get Me Started” puts a quirky new spin on Old School New York City. Send  Open Thread suggestions to editor@seniorplanet.org.