My vision is that before long all media is actually in cloud services or something similar, and everything is connected wirelessly and chock full of embedded systems. Ultimately even our own bodies.
Already for years there have been systems where a user wears video glasses and gets a HUD display of what he's working on, like a jet engine, and can access manuals etc. right there in his or her vision.
I believe in not so distant future anyone can get something like such glasses and have them playback video, audio, however they like over wireless networks. Video glasses were all the rage ten years ago, and when they come back, they will come back improved greatly.
You'll be able to walk the streets and you can see 'hovering' HUD information on your glasses on anything you look at; street signs can be translated visually for you on the fly so you can see everything in your language. Probably even hear the same, there will be no need to learn languages for common people.
Give it a little more time and all that can be achieved with implants and you will be able to access information, video, books, audio, instant translation, anything, directly to your nervous system in perfect quality...
And the funny thing is, you can already do ALL that except the neural link - only you need to lug around a few smartphones and a laptop most likely...but at this rate, it can all be built into sunglasses soon enough.
When we're old...kids will laugh in disbelief at ancient stuff like TV's and video screens and computers you actually have to use your hands to write with or control...it'll be all archaic to them.
p.s. that neural link is also already being tested...they can already use such a link to give vision from a CCD camera to a blind person...nothing fancy yet, but they can tap into the visual cortex well enough to allow a blind person to recognize shapes and things...or an amputee control a prosthetic by merely thinking what he wants to do...just give it a few years more...
