The Next 25 Years in Tech

[ChristiRenee]

Just came across this article and thought it was interesting. Bleh.

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6183619&GT1=10938

PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033. But with digital technology showing up everywhere else--including inside your body--computing will only get more personal.

[ChristiRenee]

Also,

Five Sci-Fi Scenarios That Will Come True

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141682-page,2-c,desktoppcs/article.html#

[Just Ron]

It's been a wild ride the last 25 yrs, for who would have thought that I could talk with a fellow human being on the other side of the world using a simple web camera? In real time?

Or the idea of the Internet being around in the 70's...something from science fiction for sure. But now....everyone knows about it and uses it.

But as for the next 25 yrs....it will be mindblowing for sure, but ya know what? I rather be with Jesus than playing around with cool "toys" or machines that help us out in life.

God has something planned for us that is and will be something out of this world, correction, universe. Don't know what it is, but it has to be good and mindblowing!

[seekingtruth1]

HEy thanks for that! Do you think that God will allow things to progress that far. sometimes I think life we have to get a lot worse before any judgement comes but the politcial scenario is progressing so rapidly I dont know...it feels lik today is the day

[svend]

My grandmother was born in 1890 and in her life time saw the advent of motor cars, air planes, men landing on the moon, TV, movies, ipods, cell phones and the Internet. from a time when most people either walked or used horses for transportation, had kerosene lamps for lighting, outside toilets, Ice boxes (really used ice) for refrigerators and entertainment was board games or listening to the local band/orchestra play concerts in the park. Talk about a walk through history in one life time.

[ChristiRenee]

The Holodeck (predicted mainstream date: 2016)
As seen in the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

The long-predicted virtual-reality revolution may finally be imminent, thanks to the popularity of 3D movies and of online worlds such as Second Life. A future "holodeck" could be enhanced by scents shot at your nose by a "smell cannon." Japanese researchers are working on the device now.

I'm scared of this prediction. Just like everything else in the world I can see people using this for all kinds of evil.....

[ChristiRenee]

HEy thanks for that! Do you think that God will allow things to progress that far. sometimes I think life we have to get a lot worse before any judgement comes but the politcial scenario is progressing so rapidly I dont know...it feels lik today is the day

Who knows! Only He does! :)

[antitox]

I have often thought that mankind can only go so far technologically without becoming totally controlled.

But lets' just assume that if the end-times did not occur and mankind continued on without becoming controlled, there is no question in my mind that society would reach the point of emotional sterilization and regress to an extremely self-centered / flesh-centered existence; fully narcissistic and utopian-ended.

Kinda wonder if the old song "In the Year 2525" would ring with any truth to it.

[DavidNR]

Most of it is nonsense.
:preachSpace vacations? Forget it. There's nothing to see. The excitement is in piloting the aircraft, the training, and going up there on a mission. A thousand visits to DisneyWorld is a better buy.

Smaller and smaller PCs? Great, but I want a bigger and better monitor, preferably one that measures about 40" X 50". And no matter how "good" the software gets, the brain power to produce good things (Romans 1:30) with this technology will always be limited to those whom God gives it.

The "better" technology gets, the more it simply becomes an appliance for our entertainment. I have a cell phone that's "behind" in the times because it has no video, no camera, lousy games and doesn't text. Well, I happen to "need" the cell phone for communication and my time is better spent walking home and thinking to myself. I don't have an iPod because I'm cheap, er, no, that's not it: I don't want one. I gave up on portable music with the Walkman for the simple reason that was always distracted by the music - and there's so much more to hear for free (not applicable on airplanes)...

:hatHere's what "we" "need" in terms of technology:
1. Personal sound barriers on airplanes.
2. Larger seats on airplanes. Economy class airplane seats (at least in the US carriers) are "designed" for skinny people no taller than about 5'-5". Somehow the technology needs to be such that larger seats in economy class will make money for the airlines.
3. Waterproof, shockproof, ham-fisted-proof, bendable, easy-on-the-eyes electronic books. I would buy one.
4. Wait a minute, we've got tablet PCs, don't we?
5. A truth serum that's 100% accurate. Would work wonders for the criminal justice system.
6. Low-cost, self-cleaning public bathrooms.
7. Super absorbant public bathroom towels - ones that work.
8. Moving sidewalks and regular pedestrian overpasses.
9. Steaks that grow on trees, bypassing the cow-stage.
10. Employ the homeless in trash-sorting and recycling (might require higher taxes). Also, "converters" to convert non-recyclable trash into energy.
11. High-efficiency photovoltiac cells that will power private residences.

[canuckmedic]

This is the big one...

One day you might order a new coffeepot, or even a new laptop, and not have to wait for delivery. Instead, you'll use a printer-size factory to download and build it.
Already, 3D inkjet printers build prototypes for industry. Chemical giant BASF is developing inks that will enable ordinary printers to spit out paper or plastic circuit boards. For $2,400, you can buy a Fab@home desktop fabricator that lets you build objects out of acrylic; the company hopes to produce units that can build with multiple materials in the future.
The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology predicts that personal nanofactories will be in operation by 2020. Cascio says nanofactories will have a huge impact: "If it becomes cheaper and more efficient to have something printed out locally instead of made in China, it will have a big effect on things like trade balances, international labor, and...our national economy."