You have new digital-electronic-email waiting
Now what I want to bring in the future of technology is a little device that would really say "the future is now", a device that no one will ever bother to make because like most tech it is only designed to appeal to our knee-jerk, techno-electric gadget lust which almost-but-mostly doesn't really do what I wanted/needed but does lots of other things I didn't intend to ever do which is actually why the damn thing cost so much. Anything actually useful, *still* hasn't even been invented yet because it might prove too popular and we might never need anything else again. BUT what I want is this: electronic mail. Actual mail, but electronic. Hence the name. "Ah.." you say, "..look Grandad, we've had email for years..". (By the way, I'm not a grandad or even old really, but anyway the point is "NO", we haven't had 'electronic mail'.. yet). We've had this silly, can't be bothered to write one unless it's spam email system, but not yet a device that truely makes this puny 'email' into electronic mail - something like Flash Gordon might have. (He should also have 'digital milk', whereby you use a little stick to stir your tea and it technologically alters the tea's DNA-tannin-molecular-dolphinoids to produce milk right there in your cup [patent pending]). I want a touchscreen device, wall mounted somewhere next to or behind my front door. Something about the size of a laptop screen. Something plain/simple. It would be on all the time and powered by the sun and/or the motion of the front door itself opening and shutting. And what does it do? It checks my email. Once a day or maybe twice at most, but certainly in the morning and if anything else, about 6pm. If there is mail, then it announces something classically retro-ish like "You have electronic mail waiting". This is electronic mail - and electronic system that rivals, well 'mail'. And there is no 'check now' button - you have to wait - get over it, addict. Except of course I'd probably have to use a different email address for such a thing - a grown up one, probably just for family as if we're honest, email from friends/co-workers probably amounts for most of the spam in the world. So this device sits on my wall and has a nice clean display, no icons or 2.0 nonsense. It just checks for mail and if it has any, displays a nice, full screen image of some neatly stacked envelopes ready for you to press on, open and read. Simple, lovely, useful future.
