The future of clothing may be found in pockets
Imagine smart clothing that could alert you to incoming messages, or notify you when the sock market goes down
Speculation about future technologies is a staple of internet discussion, but the clothes of the future are seldom included. When I interviewed science fiction author Neal Stephenson recently, he opined that clothing was “pretty highly evolved” already and was unlikely to get any better. I am more optimistic.
A lot of current clothing innovations focus on gimmicks. There is the “Social Escape Dress”, which can “emit a cloud of fog when the wearer is feeling stressed”. Maybe that is fun, but what economic problem does it solve? And won’t it stress the wearer more? I suspect that the more durable clothing innovations will be more practical...
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