UC Davis students share their views on future technology trends
What do you think or hope the next big technology trend will be?
Ana Reynoso, third-year design and cinema and digital media double major
“360 video gaming!”
Consuelo Jimenez, first-year neurobiology, physiology and behavior major
“A calculator that you can speak into instead of plugging in numbers.”
David Mena 
Roman, second-year Spanish and cognitive science double major
“I read somewhere that Mark Zuckerberg was trying to further the expansion of artificial intelligence. He wanted to build a simple robot that would help in daily life. I thought that was pretty cool and even though I’m a college student and would never actually have a robot, just the idea that there is the possibility of a robot that can understand my commands — that’s pretty cool and I think that might be the next big thing.”
Alexandria Scott, first-year animal biology major
“An actual hoverboard: one that actually hovers.”
Marie Verberckmoes, first-year biological sciences major
“A solar powered and self-driven car — super efficient.”
Alexander Levin, Ph.D student in the horticulture and agronomy graduate group
“What I would want is really small robots that can go into our bodies and get rid of cancer cells.”
Kendra Forst, third-year communication major
“Holograms, like in Star Wars. You can have a conversation with someone and they’re a hologram person.”
Carter Yang, second-year political science major
“A real hoverboard.”
Reid Brisbane, second-year global disease biology major
“Hovercars.”
Niba Nirmal, third-year genetics and genomics major
“It’s going to be the oculus. They’re just working on making the price down and then it’s going to get pretty huge.”
Lawrence Simon, third-year astrophysics major
“Lately people have been interested in perfecting sound in headphones and making it so that you can actually listen to headphones using different frequencies other than music. Long story short, they’re shooting signals into the air that are like random radio waves and you’ll put these headphones on and they’ll convert those random radio waves into different types of sounds and textures. Anyway, it’s really weird and I don’t remember what it’s called, but I think it’s something that will catch the interest of people.”
Josh Polaco, second-year political science major (left) and Sebastian Acevedo, fifth-year psychology major (right)
Josh: “Holograms on the phone.”
Sebastian: “Phones going into smartwatches — like things you can do on your phone, now you can do [on your watch]. You could take a picture, you could talk, you could send messages, you could record things.”
Written by: Fatima Siddiqui – features@theaggie.org
