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May 31, 2008
2020: The future of technology revealed
What the next 10 years holds for us all
With PCs disappearing from desks but technology showing up everywhere else, computing will only get more personal in the coming decades.
The future ain't what it used to be. In the pre-PC era, futurists predicted huge changes in transportation. By 2008, they prophesied, we would be flitting about with personal jetpacks and taking holidays on the moon. But the communications revolution spurred by personal computers and the internet wasn't on anyone's radar.
Now the technology landscape is once again on the verge of change – change that will transport us to places few people have imagined. We know that computers will be vastly more powerful, mobile and connected. But soon we'll struggle to tell where the technology ends and the rest of our life begins.
Digital technology will become firmly embedded in advanced devices that deliver information and entertainment to our homes and to our pockets, in sensors that monitor our environment from within the walls and floors of our homes and in chips that deliver medicine and augment reality inside our bodies.
This shiny, happy future may come at a cost, with experts warning of security and privacy issues. So let's hope our jetpacks come with seat belts. It's going to be a wild ride.
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dwr50 said on Saturday, 31 May 2008
Sounds great ... if you're rich. In the meantime, Windows still crashes, MAC OS10.5 whatever is still full of bugs, and Linux is starting to make a real dent in the computer market.
northernguy said on Monday, 02 June 2008
The company I work for owns the building where our office is located.Since I visit it occasionally,I have to use its biometric security. It scans my finger by some process. It does not work for me. I have no idea why but it takes several minutes of repeated attempts to get it to recognise me. In fact it is so cumbersome that I have stopped using it and simply use my cell phone to call the office to buzz me in. It is irrelevant to me that it _works for everybody else_. On one occasion I was passing by the office after hours when the police wanted to enter the building to investigate a noise complaint. I was unable to let them in because the biometric refused to identify me. Fortunately, another building occupant happened by and let them in. Luckily, I have no responsibility for sales of the building's units which sell for 2 million to 20 million dollars.
Tsteen said on Tuesday, 03 June 2008
My WLAN connected Laptop BSODs evertime I operate the Logitec Harmony 525 remote for the AV & TV in the same room so whats in it for wireless stuff in the future?
northernguy said on Tuesday, 03 June 2008
The company I work for owns the building where our office is located.Since I visit it occasionally,I have to use its biometric security. It scans my finger by some process. It does not work for me. I have no idea why but it takes several minutes of repeated attempts to get it to recognise me. In fact it is so cumbersome that I have stopped using it and simply use my cell phone to call the office to buzz me in. It is irrelevant to me that it _works for everybody else_. On one occasion I was passing by the office after hours when the police wanted to enter the building to investigate a noise complaint. I was unable to let them in because the biometric refused to identify me. Fortunately, another building occupant happened by and let them in. Luckily, I have no responsibility for sales of the building's units which sell for 2 million to 20 million dollars.