[MediconStop]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

Flash memory will replace hard drives (has already started to).

(hopefully) you will be able to get mobile phones with decent digital cameras and decent mp3 players that are more affordable.

New display type (OLED or something?) to replace LCD/plasma maybe.

Flexible display type for portable devices that can be rolled up or folded (dunno what it's called but I've a pic!).

I expect CPU's to go even more multi core. Graphics cards could follow suit too?

Electric cars maybe? Or some other method of propulsion than petrol/diesel engines.

Should be an interesting decade!

At my Uni one of the lectures who is part of the future interaction technologies group has a coffee machine with Internet connectivity. Things like this sound silly but (according to him) could take off!

[Zugaxxsn]

http://futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36875

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[fenter1]

http://futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36875

Thread CLOSED!!!!!

Huge I tell you! [yes]

[dhrishiasv]

I think that the next big technology will be medical related. Along the lines of possible stem cells, dna modification, cloning, and nano technology capable of fighting tumors and or viruses.

[myspacecoo]

The next big tech will involve quantum physics.

Quantum computing

Behold your computer. Your computer represents the culmination of years of technological advancements beginning with the early ideas of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) and eventual creation of the first computer by German engineer Konrad Zuse in 1941. Surprisingly however, the high speed modern computer sitting in front of you is fundamentally no different from its gargantuan 30 ton ancestors, which were equipped with some 18000 vacuum tubes and 500 miles of wiring! Although computers have become more compact and considerably faster in performing their task, the task remains the same: to manipulate and interpret an encoding of binary bits into a useful computational result. A bit is a fundamental unit of information, classically represented as a 0 or 1 in your digital computer. Each classical bit is physically realized through a macroscopic physical system, such as the magnetization on a hard disk or the charge on a capacitor. A document, for example, comprised of n-characters stored on the hard drive of a typical computer is accordingly described by a string of 8n zeros and ones. Herein lies a key difference between your classical computer and a quantum computer. Where a classical computer obeys the well understood laws of classical physics, a quantum computer is a device that harnesses physical phenomenon unique to quantum mechanics (especially quantum interference) to realize a fundamentally new mode of information processing. Read the rest here... starting from the 2nd paragraph.
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html

[Audi_z]

New display type (OLED or something?) to replace LCD/plasma maybe.

OLED has still serious troubles with the lifetime of the panels

SED is only under development by one company and that development got seriously slowed down beause of an advancement of LCD tech

[gydrorway]

With that sort of attitude, Mr. Cranky, I think you should go back to type writers and slide rules!

And tape players too!

Or powerpoint! I mean come on it's easy to do the same thing with new technology (powerpoint/ohp) but what will really revolutionize our lives is innovative technology like that thing someone posted about http://futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35123 I'm sorry but people don't need GPS that much sure when you travel somewhere new but how often do most people travel somewhere new? Most travel is that boring day to day comute to work and GPS isn't going to do anything about that. If all your imagination can stretch to for future technology is GPS, well

[Zugaxxsn]

Or powerpoint! I mean come on it's easy to do the same thing with new technology (powerpoint/ohp) but what will really revolutionize our lives is innovative technology like that thing someone posted about http://futuremark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35123 I'm sorry but people don't need GPS that much sure when you travel somewhere new but how often do most people travel somewhere new? Most travel is that boring day to day comute to work and GPS isn't going to do anything about that. If all your imagination can stretch to for future technology is GPS, well

And your big technology for the coming decade is?...

Try to be a little more constructive with your posts, please.

And how much better would it be for your boring day if you had a navigational unit direct you around a back up on your way to or from work?

Do you think Ipods have been a great new technology in this decade? Do you believe they added to people's leisure and the nation's GDP?

[strmini]

And your big technology for the coming decade is?...

Try to be a little more constructive with your posts, please.

And how much better would it be for your boring day if you had a navigational unit direct you around a back up on your way to or from work?

Do you think Ipods have been a great new technology in this decade? Do you believe they added to people's leisure and the nation's GDP?

Did you even read his post? He linked to something revolutionary, so how is his post any less constructive than yours?

[gydrorway]

And your big technology for the coming decade is?...

Try to be a little more constructive with your posts, please.

And how much better would it be for your boring day if you had a navigational unit direct you around a back up on your way to or from work?

Do you think Ipods have been a great new technology in this decade? Do you believe they added to people's leisure and the nation's GDP?

Dude you think GPS units are the key to GDP! As if shaving a few minutes off your drive was somehow going to kickstart the economy. I showed you an example of far out thinking of ideas that are embryonic (in fact several people here have) and will have massive untold impact you've suggest a technology that has been around for years. I know plenty of people who have GPS in their car none of them have told me they have more leisure time one of them doesn't even bother using it after all that. One guy I took a ride with couldn't get the damn thing to work but it made no difference because he had a vague idea of the area and the guy we were driving home who is disabled managed to direct him okay. Directions, Maps Route Planners these things have been around for years. If you are going to proclaim GPS as a mover of GDP then give some concrete examples and then explain just what percentage impact they will have on GDP.

[extessarere]

i think this gadgets from http://www.modelabs.com/ kinda cool tho. Those U-Turn concept phones look like something from Minority Reports [thumbup]

[gydrorway]

When enough people have them you'll be able to find faster ways around back ups. That's what I can't wait for!

When enough people have them won't everyone know the way around the back up, hence new back up?

[Tusanoc]

When enough people have them won't everyone know the way around the back up, hence new back up?

No because they communicate two ways then, in fact they all communicate with each other and will predict back ups before they happen and direct traffic such that the best through flow will be maintained. Well atleast they should!!

[fenter1]

RFID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

No doubt about it. How else will computers or artificial intelligence easily be aware of their surroundings and be able to make our lives easier? All the while truly saving money and human interference. Add this to GPS and whoah! Track anything anywhere.

[Zugaxxsn]

Sweet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[boiffrona]

Quantum Computers.

[secondmortgagek]

hydrogen fuel cells in everything from phones to cars.

Optical chips which will wave goodbye to moores law

[jimmy28]

and closed because of all the bitching and arguing. We are not going through this entire thread cleaning up the crap.

Learn to post in a constructive manner, even if you don't agree with a particular post for some reason.