One thing that Capsule has me doing is looking into where technology is going in order to create a somewhat believable world set in the 2070s.  In some ways there’s no getting this wrong, in others there’s no way of getting this right.  The farther out you try to project technology, the more likely you are to be just completely dead wrong.  Just look at the original Star Trek as the classic example, where everything except warp drive has pretty much been invented by now, a good two centuries early.

So in order to explore my thought process, and to provide myself more things to talk about here, I’m going to occasionally give a glimpse at the real technology that is moving towards the technology of Capsule.

In part, this was motivate by something that Microsoft unveiled, as reported by Engadget and Gizmodo, the ability to create computer input through tapping different parts of your arm.  In Capsule, I’ve got The Wrap, a piece of technology that was originally based on a Nokia phone concept design called Morph, though more of a full fledged computer like we would imagine available in a laptop, rather than just a phone and personal organizer.  As of today the Morph is still a CGI concept, but the Skinput idea is actually a physical product, requiring just a sophisticated wristband to project images and detect where someone has tapped their arm.  It’s not really a useful thing in it’s current form, but it’s an interesting step towards the ability to integrate computation more thoroughly with the human body.