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Flying cars, meatless meat, transparent screens and towers and reality without reality - these are the technological trends that will be with us in 2022, and some other disgusting trends that will stay with us as well


Starting a year: the technological innovations we want to see in 2022 (and those that do not)

Flying cars, meatless meat, transparent screens and towers and reality without reality - these are the technological trends that will be with us in 2022, and some other disgusting trends that will stay with us as well

Niv Lillian

31/12/2021

Friday, 31 December 2021, 16:00 Updated: 16:26

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No more smartphones?

These are the technological innovations we would like to see in 2022 (Photo: Walla! Technology, Yinon Ben-Shoshan)

2021 closes with a bang, and 2022 begins.

The past year has been the year of Corona, and not the most fun year in the world, though less bad than its predecessor.

Instead of a traditional year summary, we at Walla Technology decided to present you with something a little less routine: the technological trends we would like to see in 2022, and the less so.

So before the champagne and the midnight kiss - start:

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The trends seen in 2022

Flying Cars

- True, we's a technology journalist have been promising you this for years, but this year we'll probably see it happen: According to the plan in 2022, flying autonomous taxi services are set to start operating, both in big cities and at point events.

This trend is already starting to come out of the swamp, and the experimental phase and is starting to roll into a phase of large-scale experiments, or even commercial services that will emerge later this year.

Who needs a ceremonial divorce when you can fly home?



Meat from culture and substitute meat

- According to the number of start-ups that deal with meat or meat substitutes from cultivated in Israel, it seems that a great many cows are about to be saved.

Redifine Meat, Seabury Eat, Alef Farms and more, all launched alternative meat or artificial meat products that were grown from a crop and not cut from a real cow.

Some are already serving products in restaurants (Redefine Meat works with upscale restaurants in Berlin, London and more, Savory Eat just this week announced the sale of their hamburger substitute on the BBB chain), some are still trying, but in 2022 we will probably eat less real meat and more protein from alternative sources and the beautiful part ?

That these companies are all striving that in terms of experience we will not feel the difference.

AIR's flying vehicle (Photo: Manufacturer's website)

Metavers and augmented reality

- we managed to forget, but only a few weeks ago Facebook changed its name to Meta, a Greek word meaning comprehensive, inclusive or all - and Mark Zuckerberg introduced the Matavers, a three-dimensional virtual universe, which is a contract we will move to in a few years - and computer monitors or A two-dimensional smartphone like the one you are now reading these words on will become a façade.

Facebook will present a prototype of the vision this year and it puts its weight on what has already been dubbed web3, the new global network that will all be virtual or augmented reality with supporting glasses instead of computers and smartphones.

An optimistic vision that you will not be able to avoid in 2022.

The Metavers World of Meta (Photo: Facebook)

Payments with the smartphone

- as we talked about it in our podcast, the non-contact payments or only pats that were delayed in entering Israel with a considerable delay - took us by storm. Apple Pay has been active here for some time, and about a month ago Google Pay also started operating in Israel, so most smartphones in Israel already support direct payment, without the need for a wallet at all. This trend will expand in 2022, when we solve some important "islands" that still cling to older technologies: Gas stations and businesses that still cling to the magnetic stripe reading will have to by the end of July 2022 also join non-contact payments and support EMV (the name of the protocol that allows This wonder), and the other stumbling block: public transport, buses and trains, which will also join (here there is already a deployment of support hardware at all train stations and a fair amount of buses, we are just waiting for someone to approve the lift).



Online retail

- Two years of plague imposed on us, greatly increased the online retail culture and shopping through deliveries.

With more and less violent variants, fears of crowds, and failure to maintain distance and masks, this too is going nowhere.

The data of the credit card companies show that we have used the most credit in the past year necessarily because of the purchases online, and this year too this trend, in my humble opinion, is only going to intensify.

Jeff Bezos does not have to worry, he will have enough money from Amazon to fly not only to space, even to the moon.

Pay by Touch: This trend will expand in 2022 (Photo: ShutterStock)

Transparent and foldable tablets / smartphones

- this trend is still in its infancy, but here LG is already presenting it at the 2022 CES: Transparent OLED screens.

If you or you remember the transparent tablets we saw in Star Trek or futuristic promotional videos, this business is starting to take shape.

At the moment they are more in the field of TVs, but if a way is found to minimize the electronics around into a grip device, there is no reason why we should not see smartphones or tablets that are completely transparent, thin and grippable.



Of course, the trend that is already here and under Moore's Law will only become cheaper and more accessible in the coming year and in general, is the trend of flexible screens and folding phones.

At the moment it is still a fairly expensive technology, but its price is already falling, and smartphones are folding, maybe in a few years they will become mainstream.

Expensive technology: a folding smartphone (Photo: Walla! Technology, Yinon Ben-Shoshan)

And the trends we would not like to see in 2022 (and we are stuck with them)

Square smartphones with a touch screen

- and while we long for smartphones with flexible and transparent screens, it's not just because they are innovative: we are tired of the regular smartphones.

Since the first iPhone was introduced on January 9, 2007 and for 15 years already - smartphones have not changed their basic shape: except for the innovation of a flexible screen, they are all still the same disgusting shape of a rectangle with a touch screen.



Hundreds if not thousands of models have already hit the market over the years, and billions of us walk around with the same device, whose configuration has already become too familiar, boring and unexciting.

As someone who has reviewed dozens of mobile devices, I am no longer excited: beauty.

Another rectangle with a touch screen.

Every mainstream smartphone meets this definition.

Fed up.

2022, renew us.

Excite us.

Since 2007: Another rectangle with a touch screen (Photo: Walla! Technology, Yinon Ben-Shoshan)

Video calls

- be it zoom, teams, skype or meet, with the omicron, what comes after it and the hybrid working model, the video calls also go nowhere, even though we already have phenomena like "zoom fatigue".

Thanks to the epidemic, they have been refined, making the forgotten webcam the star of the year of hardware - but enough is enough, we understood the intention.

Is it possible to turn off the camera and meet again face to face, like human beings?



Corona

- and finally, the corona.

Here came the vaccines, and we already thought it was possible to get back to routine, the Delta and the Omicron came and patted us on the face.

The most annoying trend that will stay with us in 2022 is the corona, and we hope we do not have to repeat this statement in early 2023 ...

Happy new year.

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