Verglaste Welt

 TVs, Desktop-PCs, Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones, Smartwatches. Unsere Welt wird verglast. Mit vernetzten Displays.

Corning, Glashersteller unter anderem für LCD-Panels, schätzt seit 2005 den weltweiten Bedarf für LCD-Displays, der wenig überraschend stetig ansteigt:

Die Grafik stammt von Benedict Evans, der dazu Folgendes schreibt:

The display of, well, anything has been liberated from bulky, heavy CRTs or blocky black and white LCD screens. Today, the tech world is about pieces of glass, showing whatever content and interface you can imagine. It’s almost as though the content is  dematerialised. No buttons, no case, no bezel – everything is about the image. The image is the glass and the glass is the product.

If it’s a yard across you bolt it to a wall and watch video on it. Smaller, and it goes on a desk and you use a keyboard and mouse. Smaller still, and it’s called a ‚tablet‘, gets touch and goes in a bag, and smaller still and it goes in a pocket, or on your wrist perhaps. But it’s all just glass with a data connection.