Comments | powerrad: Random thoughts - again, sorta geeky, but readable

powerrad

Random thoughts - again, sorta geeky, but readable

Jun 26, 2006 09:17

I was doing some thinking about technology, and how it has a habit of saturating its limits until high-tech becomes low-tech (thanks a lot, Moore's Law). For example, in a couple years we're going to be using HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (whichever wins) and musing about how positively atrocious DVDs were at holding all our high def content. But until HD ( Read more... )

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I see pepsii June 26 2006, 23:25:23 UTC

sticks and stones and cave-people

OR my great garndkids on another planet. or with geals. oh yeah geals would be cool

tribesman June 26 2006, 23:45:26 UTC

All of the bits and EM radiation in the air gives us all cancer and the entire world is reduced to cinder by an incoming meteor.

Lses computer, more feng shui, all the way.

yomanman June 27 2006, 01:14:20 UTC

After the major puritan resistance I expect to see a narrower gap between the man/machine interface. I hope to one day have a quiet conversation with a person in a loud room.

phaman June 28 2006, 22:52:28 UTC

commercially with fibre you get 14MB/s - and that's dedicated.
corporately you can get GB fibre connections.

sombrehippie June 29 2006, 03:12:00 UTC

What I'm really looking forward to is region-wide WiFi run by the major high speed companies, with the option of using other regions' services while on vacation. Get your monthly subscription. Run your home computers and laptops from it. Have a system in your car for navigation, general web surfing, listening to internet radio, and for on the fly multimedia download with the possibility of engaging in a fast FTP or direct connection to your home computers to get access to more files as you need them. Cell phones, palms, mp3 players, PSPs and other small personal electronics will also be able to use your WiFi connection for these purposes ( ... )