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OfflineBrainChemistry
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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: snoot]
    #10063677 - 03/29/09 12:54 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

If anything, we will continue to refine, miniaturize, and improved upon existing ideas.

Technology like the computer I don't think will fundamentally change. It will just continue to get upgraded....faster processing power, greater storage capacity, greater networking capabilities, increased functionality and range of use.

The real change comes in the application and changes made in infrastructure.

We already have the ability to make electric cars. That technology isn't new...but it has yet to be implemented on mass scale.

I think the changes we'll see in our lifetimes are going to be lifestyle adjustments based on technology.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: BrainChemistry]
    #10065186 - 03/29/09 10:15 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Oh, I don't know about that.

The big technological advances we'll see are likely unimaginable.  For the same reason that people in the 50s and 60s thought they would have flying cars, because cars were something familiar to them, we perceive that we will just have faster computers and better software.

But those people could never have foreseen, say, the internet.

It's just not able to be conceptualized until the technology becomes available.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #10065219 - 03/29/09 10:21 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

People in the past did foresee the internet though.  Maybe not the masses, but the educated.  Future technologies come from the imagination of people, so all future technology is foreseen.

Sci-Fi novels are notorious for having outlandish predictions of the future.  But if you look, you can find authors that predict nearly everything we have - from Verne and his prediction of the moon launch from Florida to Gibson and his prediction of cyberspace and the internet.

I think that in a modern liberal society, where creative thought and thinking outside the social norms are encouraged, the citizens can conceive of a likely future.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: DieCommie]
    #10065281 - 03/29/09 10:32 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Eh, I think things only look that way because of the sheer number of possible futures and scenarios fut forth.

It's just like Nostradamus, or other "prophets".  They make a ton of random statements, and after enough time passes some of those are able to be correlated to actual events and you have people claiming these guys can see the future.

I mean, science fiction may have predicted the Internet, but they also predicted we'd be exploring obelisks on Jupiter's moons almost ten years ago.

You know?

There are tens of thousands, conservatively, of future scenarios put forth by authors and thinkers.  One of them, surely, will prove to be somewhat correct.  But only by blind chance.  Monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #10065354 - 03/29/09 10:48 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Yea, I hear ya.  But I dont think Clarke actually predicted that as the future.  In some sense, novels like that are more fantasy than sci-fi.  Other novels, like Verne's, were scientifically justified and were good predictors of the future (unlike Wells, who wrote sci-fi without scientific justification).

I personally think that the near future (next thousand years or so) will be very close parallel the future depicted in cyber-punk genre (that is, if technology keeps progressing).  Some details will of course be different, but the world of the sprawl could very likely be our world.

I think you could make a case that the future of technology is guided by the fantasy and imagination of the previous generation.  Those who grew up reading Verne helped to create his vision; like wise those of my generation who grew up with stories of A.I., cyberspace and cyborgs will be the scientists and engineers who bring that future to fruition.

I dont deny that paradigm shifts will occur that none of us could fathom, but that will be the exception - not the rule.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: DieCommie]
    #12207748 - 03/15/10 05:22 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

One thing that I think needs epic change, is power supplies. I hate how when i buy a new gadget or phone or mp3 player or something they each have there very own custom usb plug/power cord, wtf is this shit, this pisses me off, I have like 15 different cables for each of my things, so stupid. Its obviously a scheme to make more money off people after they buy things. FTC or whoever should standardize USB/power cords, so each has the same  thing.!:celery:


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: snoot]
    #12211167 - 03/16/10 06:11 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Europe is currently preparing legislation that will make all cell phone manufacturers agree on one power supply interface standard so adapters will be reusable.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: koraks]
    #12238464 - 03/20/10 06:59 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

That's great, but it should really span ALL small electronic products as snoot mentioned.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: seek]
    #12239728 - 03/20/10 11:30 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

seek said:
Quote:

Urb said:
Some improvements we absolutely need (more RAM perhaps),others we may just really want (such as an LCD monitor)




Some people might like a bigger LCD over more RAM.









screw a bigger monitor, I want OLED wallpaper, so I can drape my entire wall in a monitor. May aswell.


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Re: The latest in technology. [Re: RuNE]
    #12240260 - 03/21/10 04:24 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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That's great, but it should really span ALL small electronic products as snoot mentioned.



Different devices = different power requirements. I think your/snoot's idea has potential, but it's quite a long shot at the moment.


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