Pervasive Pixels
TBL (whose Mum and Dad were at the lecture, by the way) reminded me of Minority Report when he talked about the falling price of pixels. LEDs and LCDs are everywhere. I was at Chelsea Football Club yesterday to watch the 3-0 defeat of Sheffield United, and they have 2 huge LED screens, but I expect next season they’ll have LEDs most places they have static signs today. TBL talked about a concert he went to in Boston (I think it was at Fenway Park) where the LEDs round the ground were part of the show. Soon we’ll be able to wallpaper rooms in programmable pixels, he predicted, and then we’ll have to figure out how to allow computers, PDAs, phones, to take them over temporarily, so we can use them as screens. He might be wrong (he thought search engines were mathematically impossible for a while in the 80s) but it’s an interesting thought.
