Tech Trendspotting For The Future 59
Dylan Knight Rogers writes to mention a CNN article about an annual 10-year forecast of tech trends. Lots of analysts produce forecasts, but the Institute of the Future goes one step further by crafting artifacts from the future: "mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009. You might go to an IFTF presentation and see baskets of finessed fruit that promise cognitive enhancement. Or you might wake up in the hotel where the IFTF seminar was being held to find your newspaper dated 10 years hence."
mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 20 (Score:2)
more believable is a screen shot from "Duke Nukem forever" with a banner ad announcing the upcoming release of MS-Vista
Trend #1 (Score:1, Insightful)
Slashdot editors to be trained at basic spelling, punctuation, grammar.
Re:Trend #1 (Score:1)
If you dont believe his title sense, read this [slashdot.org] and this.
Re:Trend #1 (Score:2)
Re:Trend #1 (Score:2)
No no no (Score:2)
People make forcasts to predict what WILL happen in the future.
The parent seems to be predicting what WON'T happen in the future.
Silly gowen...
I'm Sorry (Score:5, Interesting)
Forecasting is important and people spend tons of money on forecasting reports only to not read them? So we repackage the forecast in a shiny method claiming to be a product from the future?
The article doesn't have any real pertinent information. Was this really worth our time?
Just one word: sattelites (Score:1)
Re:Just one word: sattelites (Score:4, Interesting)
I know drug companies have more lobbyists than there are people in Congress, but do you really think they'll get precription drugs in an apple? What about kids eating them? Or what about the prescription itself? Where would it be sold?
Last time I checked, the growing trend was for more organic food. Every grocery store in town has added a large organic/health section, and full organic stores like Wild Oats and World Market are popping up all over the place.
Then we have social movie tickets. Do you really think that people will be fine with a movie theatre knowing exactly where you are at all times with GPS coordinates? Frankly, if I want to see a movie with my friends I call them on my cell phone. I don't divulge my personal data to a movie company to track me.
Re:Just one word: sattelites (Score:2)
In the US, Congress might not allow it, but in
Re:Just one word: sattelites (Score:2)
Boring (Score:1)
Re:Boring (Score:1)
Ummm...He is talking about 7th version. Other features have higher priorities. Matrix needs to be secured described by this gentleman [slashdot.org]
Cognitive this cognitive that... (Score:2, Funny)
Just 30 seconds before reading this article, I came out of a meeting about the future of radio - it will be cognitive radio.
Basically, it means, two radio transceivers that continually and dynamically selects the best channel or frequency they can use to communicate.
But I didn't expect the word 'cognitive' to be used in such close connectivity to the word 'fruit'.
Wow, cognitive fruit. *oishiiii*, tasty.
[ot] "Cognitive" Radio (Score:1)
Some of the stuff in there is scary. (Score:4, Insightful)
Socially networked movie tickets? Leave me and my friends the hell alone.
Re:Some of the stuff in there is scary. (Score:2)
RFID (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:RFID (Score:2, Funny)
Your date: I had a great time tonight and I..... why do you have stickers on your shirt?
You: Ummm
Your Date: And your socks. And shoes. And... I don't want to know.
Re:RFID (Score:2)
Re:RFID (Score:2)
Re:RFID (Score:2, Interesting)
Hence the need for three scanners to derive position.
A walkie-talkie doesn't provide position either, but if you're using one my hit team will find you. If I've only got one guy he'll find you anyway, it'll just take him a bit longer since he's working in one dimension and has to walk down the line.
the readers would crash DDoS'd from more than a few signals at once anyway.
Like your walkie-talkie crashes from all the signals at once? You should see what radio telescopes have to
Re:RFID (Score:3, Interesting)
If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me. Readers can't detect the direction the signal is coming from. No indication of direction, strength, time etc. Cell phones can "ping" the station and triangulate their position because they have means to measure the delay of answer, and the stations are in reasonable distance. Here, ping sent at light speed will return wi
Re:RFID (Score:1)
So, I will provide myself with one. In point of fact I'll get damned close to you without one, since a walkie-talkie antenna is semidirectional. Notice that its shape is not symetrical in three dimensions?
Have you grown up with only cable TV or something? Get thee hence and acquire a pair of rabbit ears and learn something.
The signal from the scanners is not directional. .
It is if I have constructed them to be. I don't ge
P.S. (Score:1)
Well understood late 1800s tech. It's available off the shelf or about ten bucks worth of parts from Radio Shack.
KFG
Re:P.S. (Score:2)
>So, I will provide myself with one.
Good luck. In the middle of the jungle.
Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
>> The signal from the scanners is not directional. .
>It is if I have constructed them to be. I don't get this argument at all. It's doofey.
So you want to construct directional RFID scanners. Get sued for constructing RFID scanners and reverse-engineering them. An
Re:P.S. (Score:1)
>>>If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me.
>>So, I will provide myself with one.
>Good luck. In the middle of the jungle.
>Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
I'd like to say I stopped reading here, but, unfortunately, I didn't.
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It takes maybe 10 seconds to show a Boy Scout how. Most of them used to be able to put it to practial application in about 15 seconds. It
Re:P.S. (Score:2)
Wireless Power is.
Tesla tried this. He screwed up a big time, it worked but created far more problems than solved. Few tried it with any success. Only relatively recently TI came up with RFID which works... sometimes.
The "radio" part is least of concern. If you could place a fixed transmitter sending a chosen signal continuously, no biggie. That's not even undergraduate project. The problem is RFID is to radio what submarine is to rowboat. And you still try to navigate using
Re:P.S. (Score:1)
KFG
Re:P.S. (Score:2)
radio is wireless.
kfg is clueless.
Radio is wireless signal with barely enough power to drive minimal, very sensitive part of a circuit through relatively big antenna. It NEEDS local power and amplifiers to work. A radio that does not require external power, able to power up small, weak earphones using only the broadcast waver and at barely audible volume will require 5-10 meters of antenna length. No working unpowered pocket radios, sorry.
RFID tag 5 milimeters long needs to be powered up with the pulse from
Re:P.S. (Score:1)
No, acutally, I've determined that empirically in my rockets.
Wireless power to power up radio transmitters until recently was a taboo.
Ok, now I can stop reading.
KFG
Re:P.S. (Score:2)
Re:P.S. (Score:1)
>Good luck. In the middle of the jungle.
>Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
KFG
Re:RFID (Score:3, Interesting)
Plus, the doorway option is better for many places to get a definite read as well. My 802.11G br
Re:RFID (Score:3, Informative)
Worthless (Score:4, Interesting)
Cheat the Prophet (Score:1)
THE human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have
Re:Depends (Score:2)
Depends on who making the prediction...
If it is lone column writer on some newspaper claiming that we will have Fusion power by 2015 because he saw a science fiction movie then chances are it won't happen.
If it is a small group of scientists with PHDs in nuclear science saying we will have fusion power by 2015 because they have done computer models then it is more likley to happen.
If it is a larger group of government officials, wo
"Welcome to the world of tomorrow" (Score:1)
Re:"Welcome to the world of tomorrow" (Score:1)
Accurate (Score:4, Informative)
However, there are virtual stock markets where people predict the future in regards to news, sports, movies, etc. More often than not, these are correct.
http://www.ideosphere.com/ [ideosphere.com]
http://www.hsx.com/ [hsx.com]
http://blogshares.com/ [blogshares.com]
http://us.newsfutures.com/ [newsfutures.com]
Past Predictions (Score:3, Informative)
I remember the NY Worlds Fair from 1964 and the technological exhibits that showed us the world of the future. And what about EPCOT? Another prediction of how we'll all live in the future. Most of the predictions didn't come true, yet it did cause us to think of what was possible.
Edison said every failed project taught him what did not work, in order to find those projects that did work.
Just one example of what may work. The fruit laced with drugs. That may work in countries where a particular drug would have to be refrigerated, but cannot due to the lack of infrastructure. Perhaps the drug would be able to be administered without losing its effectivness via a native fruit which needs no refrigeration.
PR press hits (Score:2)
Don't feel bad, half the national stories you see on local news were shot by an industry trade group and in more than a couple cases, our very own government propaganda ministry.
Internet 0.1 (Score:1)
Re:Fight Back the Smart Way (Score:1)
The Amazing Criswell Predicts.... (Score:1)
The Amazing Criswell