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Future of Technology?! Nostradamus anyone@!
Yes, the ongoing question ..
Apparently most of the blog entries somewhere touch this.. but has never been discussed as a question mark..
Woul dbe fun if each of the interested members can give thier imagination on what they percieve the future of technology to be .. purely from their perspecptive.
it could be a technical perspective , busines/ government / overall perspective..
and it could be staggered into next 5 years, 10 years just as far a time frame each of us can visualize.
think it would be really neat to know each others thoughts on this ..
and the more we would disuss , the more we could integrate eah perspectives in to the jigsaw of the tech futures :)
Cheers
Pooja
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18 May 2006 10:59:43 AM
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in 1995 Windows had a brilliant marketing line...THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!
However, in 2006 the future is still changing..and NOW needs a new definition...and it will always tend to do so...as long as we can keep thinking and the human mind keeps evolving...
Now well getting to the replying part of this post...in 5 years I perceive the relation between Wired and Wireless Technologies to be reversed...Wireless providing high speed always available internet...and Wired only able to provid fixed bandwidth low speed (which will be 10 MBPS) at select points...
Advanced Architectures will enable embedded products to be created with optical Digital Signal processors, allowing Fixed Point DSP's with over 5 GHz processing capability...hence making it imperitive for Wireless Internet to be more useful..as it is in Sweden 1GBPS home Internet speeds are pretty commonplace....these will be available everywhere but for Antarctica and Africa ....which will become test beds for new technologies before being migrated to the high paying nations...
Some guy will definitely try to create the ulimate prediction software to predict how to live life....It will fail...randomness cannot be predicted...if it gets predicted, the random element disappears...the eco system is harmed...and nature starts a corrective process to bring back the randomness using suitable disruptions...
Well the future will be just like now...we wont notice much...will feel everything is the same...but a lot will have happened...
\\ Nrip Nihalani...
Any new takes on wireless networking.. Wi-Max will soon launch and hundreds of frequencies beaming in all directions..Would there be more advanced break throughs in the wireless media, independant yet connected, global yet local ..
Plenty of opportunites in this space for speedy inventions to grab the market and capture the imagination
While the storage devices can have a multiple options
and with nano tubes and super computing powers - dissemination to clients on any types of devices would seem practical, fast and easy.
But there is one worry/ question in my mind is with respect to Organizing the world's information.
Now this would seem crtical , a whole field of research is awaiting with algorithms to predict the world (from butterfly effect in china to volcanoes in hawaii to who wins the FIFA )
Now the way has been led by Google, Wikipedia, Semagix , Datamniners etc..
but however i would like to understand how the gap between the numeric data and the semanitical data will be bridged.. i think that is one space more logic and algo's will be required for identifying strong co-relations..
I think Author Steven Levitt from freaknomics would truely be able to percieve the kind of co-relations the world is looking forward to..
the web is presently facing the haystack syndrome with more data less relevance in my thoughts..
Any ideas/ thoughts?
I like your world-wide-accessible data store. I think its computing power will remain, as it is today in principle, a supplement to the ever-increasing computing power that we will be able to have with us at all times.* Where I hope your vision is merely a short-term one is the concept of a hand-held device.
In 2016 (if I live that long) I want my portable computing to be worn, not carried. I am surprised never to have seen a PDA designed to be worn as a bracer, inside the forearm. Perhaps electronic paper will bring it closer. However, in the longer term I expect output devices to be:
1) two miniature optical projectors, providing virtual images reflected off the near surface of my spectacle lenses;
2) bone contact 'phones incorporated into the earpieces of the spectacle frames.
Input devices may be one or more of the following:
1) a miniature keyboard worn on the arm of my recessive (left in my case) hand;
2) a miniature camera integrated with gaze detecting software (the latter already exists) to determine at which character I am looking on the virtual display, and detect the eye blink that indicates selection;
3) a throat microphone;
4) a skull cap to detect brain activity and interpret it as tokens of the input language.
The last has more than one possible technology, including scalp potentials and nuclear magnetic resonance. All are some way off, AFAIK, with hardware portability being a major issue for some, and the development of interpretative software only just beginning in all the cases of which I have knowledge.
Wearable computing is the subject of http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/lizzy/.
Head worn displays have been made, but are at present heavy and bulky.
* Perhaps not when swimming.
I am sure numerous advances have been made in these direction. Unfortunately, I am not aware of all of them. I look forward to a time when life like holographic presentations can me made (or is this possible now?) and to teleportation of animate and inanimate objects.
What is the scoop in these areas?
Copperman