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- Toon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42I can't wait to walk in on my iron and my toaster cybering.
"You're getting me so hot."
"Same here. Put it in both slots."
I'm not even sure what that means. - mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Actually, English has some of the most irregular grammatical rules in the world. In other words, it is fairly hard for someone to learn to speak or write it without making such errors.
Try learning some manners, thats considerably easier. - AudioPhil3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24I must be reading Digg too much at the moment.
Because I read: "Three Emerging Technologies that Wii Change the World."
I wii pay more attention next time.
*edit* damit! - bjammin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I don't think a lack of address space is the reason that washing machines currently don't talk to cell phones!
- SrLnclt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Since duggmirror only does the first page and the server is going down here's the other 2 pages...
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"Bionetics"
This is my name for the incorporation of technology into the body. The dermal display is a great indication of things to come. Though I have yet to find a working demo version of this concept, I have no doubt that it will become a reality. The display would be driven by millions of nanobots. These nanobots would display light when touched. This would print a display onto your hand, or wherever the nanobot display would be housed. And this is where it gets really interesting. The display nanobots would be connected to millions of other fixed and mobile nanobots throughout the patient's body. This would give instant readings on hundreds of vital statistics. Again, nanotechnology plays a strong role here.
The bionics revolution is already underway. There have been four major cases of robotic limbs recently, the latest being a woman. The robotic limbs take advantage of the functional nerve endings in the limb stump. These nerve endings are used to actuate the robotic limb and to provide feedback to the brain. More money is being poured into robotic limbs every year.
"Functional bionetics" are implants that enhance our lives. And you may be surprised to know that people are actively doing this as I write. People are inserting tiny electronics in their bodies that will unlock their front doors and their cars. The same technology is being used to unlock computers. But it doesn't stop there. There is talk of implanting devices that will carry health information. You could be carted into a hospital totally unconscious and they would be able to access all of your past medical history. Most of this is done through RFID technology.
"Bionetic networks" will be networks of connected bionetic devices. This would allow people to share sensation, feelings, and communication. If this sounds completely fictional, I invite you to consider the work of Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England. He has implanted an extra-sensory device that interfaces with one put in his wife. They were implanted in their arms. The first experiments are aimed at exchanging sensory inputs, like pain. The hope is to extend that to other, more complicated neurological processes like thoughts and emotion. Obviously, that would drastically change relationships and indeed the world. Forget about your teens text messaging, maybe they will be brain linking in the future. Now that's really scary!
What will we be able to say came online in our lifetimes? I'm sure we could already list a lot of important technologies. But keep your eyes out for these emerging technologies. They are set to change the rules of our world. These technologies will upset economies, change military tactics, empower people, and be used to control others. Keep an eye on them.
Paul McGillivary has been a technologist for 15 years. In that time, Paul has experienced thousands of technology problems, challenges, and products. He brings this experience to bear in the articles that he presents.
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Alternative Energy & Fuels
When gas prices skyrocketed this past year, many people suddenly took an interest in alternative energy and fuels. And because demand rose, companies suddenly found themselves forced to take interest. Most of the common arguments for alternative energy and fuels center around issues of pollution, cost, dependence, and jobs.
What most people don't realize is that alternative energy and fuels always have environmental effects. This can be in the form of heat generation, air pollutants, waste by-products, land usage, extraction, etc. Instead, we have to talk about pros and cons around each type of energy and fuel. There is no silver bullet. Costs, dependence, and jobs also vary depending on the energy type.
There are a host of alternative energies being tested. Wind powered energy plants are already in place in many parts of the world. Solar energy production has taken huge steps forward with the help of nano technology. One such company is Nanosolar. Nanosolar is producing solar cells that are 100 times thinner than conventional cells. Not only are the cells cheaper to produce, but they also convert the solar energy much more efficiently. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature differences in the ocean layers to produce energy. And OTEC can utilize this colder water (36 degree F cooler) in other things like on shore agriculture and refrigeration. And the list goes on.
Massive interest was generated in alternative fuels this past year when gas prices hit record levels. New developments in battery technology could help. One such development is Millennium Cell's hydrogen battery technology. This technology differs greatly from traditional rechargeable batteries in that it's instantly rechargeable. It also has a much great efficiency for energy conversion, so it is much smaller and lighter. There is also greater reuse efficiency since you don't need to replace the entire battery. You only need to replace the energy module. Developments are continuing in biodiesel, electric, hydrogen, methanol, etc. I think there could be some serious future synergy between nano technology and alternative energy. - cheeseron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10http://www.duggmirror.com
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@MacSuxWindozSux:
English has a verb tense matrix. There's three axes:
Past Perfect - Past - Present Perfect - Present - Future - Future Perfect [major tense]
Active - Passive voice
Simple - Continuous/Progressive
In the sentence:
"The house will have been being built for six months by the time they finish."
The verb is:
"will have been being built"
The tense of the verb is:
Future Perfect tense with Continuous Passive voice.
Simple, huh? - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, me too.
With 10 Wii stories every day... - ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Nintendo has ruined me... every time I see Will i see wii. its getting really annoying
- duckedtapedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I feel like I've been shorted 7 technologies!
- jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd buy that for a dollar!
- AstroPHX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I apologize to everyone for grinding this thread into the ground, but SuperSloth, I have made you my diggfriend simply so I can watch for your next grammar-cop-bitch-slap.
Bravo. Braaaaavoooooo. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had a great idea for like bionetics! Gimme a port I can plug my electronics into and my body has to provide the energy. So finally I can surf the net on my laptop while burning calories!
- DGSK387, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4IPv6 certainly should have been on the list since it will have a tremendous impact on the world. There will be enough IP addresses available for every grain of sand on earth to have their own... Every person, and every electronic device you interact with whether it's your car, computers, cameras, phones, etc. will have its own IP address. It's the future, and I can't wait.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was reading about nanotechnology but got distracted by the Foxconn babes link on the left hand side..what were the other techs?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nanotechnology is a pipedream. It'll never catch on until the porn industry figures out a way to use it.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2" People are inserting tiny electronics in their bodies that will unlock their front doors and their cars. The same technology is being used to unlock computers. But it doesn't stop there. There is talk of implanting devices that will carry health information. You could be carted into a hospital totally unconscious and they would be able to access all of your past medical history. Most of this is done through RFID technology."
This technology scares me the most. These great benign advances will come with grave security risks,with the advent of implants that can hold personal information ranging from a key to your own house to booting your car or computer to personal medical records. that store your whole medical history, god forbid some dumb ass would eventually consider carrying a method of payment in his body its only a matter of time that malicious crackers looking for personal ID that would normally be used to help aid our so "inconvenient" lives will be used to exploit our Identities - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd go with with Genetic Engineering - the kind MIT is doing, where they program DNA to perform specific functions:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/igem-post.html
For an example of what can be done, see:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16673&ch=biztech&sc=&pg=1 - opencity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Vapor article - feels like typing for an excuse to run page ads.
This would be an interesting topic with a little bit of effort - jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Simple. AI's won't boot unless you plug them into something- preferably something clean that doesn't rot the planet like coal fired electrical plants.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I had a great idea for like bionetics! Gimme a port I can plug my electronics into and my body has to provide the energy. So finally I can surf the net on my laptop while burning calories!"
Or you could buy the 100 dollar laptop and actually have to physically crank it to power it, Ive been needing to work on my underarms anyways. - Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AI symbiosis
We may develop ways of thinking that are independent of biological evolution. In other words reconfiguring the mind. I also look foward to temporary immersion in alternative bodies. Be a dolphin for a month.
Interdimensional comunication
http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=TmxxineWiki
Biodegradeable phones
http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=MarchTmxxine - vvvv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One vital technology we will need in the future will be the horseshoe. It will be used to protect the hooves of the horses we will ride around on when the oil runs out.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Dugg for the Robocop reference - jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Someone has a wii case of console envy.
- jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>>Nanotech- there is some interesting work going on there and I think we should all watch that field carefully. Where nano-tech will hit its stride when it can be applied to medical functions. Imagine having the ability to have a platoon of nano-bots and say sic 'em to a cancer tumor.
>Alternate energy- I'm afraid that for the short term that nuclear fission will be the 400 pound gorilla that we can't get rid of. A combination of need and economy of scale is already pushing planners to look at new power plants and frankly Westinghouse water cooled reactors are quite good. A lot of people are scared of nuclear power but the problems we've seen out west the last few years are only going to get worse until we can put more power in the grid.
Solar power is coming along but the big problem there is what do you do at night?
Progress has been made here but is it enough?
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/4844
Wind power is as fickle as... the wind.
Tidal harnesses are a good idea but they only work in very specific places.
Fusion power looks like a long shot at best.
One would have to be a fortune teller to figure out WTF is up with fossil fuels like oil and coal. The US simply must get over our addiction to crude. Natural gas is clean but it is expensive because it is in high demand.
At the moment there are more questions about energy than there are answers. Those answers are desperately needed.. and soon.
Bionetics? Let's talk about that after we get past serious problems with rejection and teaching the immune system not to attack implants. On top of that implants will have a useful life only as long as their power cells hold up and then they'll have to be replaced. These problems and many more will have to be licked before we can start thinking seriously about implants.
I think that there are other fields that are closer and will have a bigger impact faster: Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing, supercomputing, modeling and simulation just to name a few.
I think that we are going to have some payoffs in the bio-medical fields that are unanticipated. With the human genome project data, tons of research on viruses and the human immune system done for AIDS research, I think we are going to see some big strides made in medicine- specifically in the areas of engineered drugs and vaccines, serious progress against infectious diseases, and treatments for genetic disorders. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Simply because this author hasn't bothered to do any research himself. He completely depends on the discoveries and theories of others. Lazy thinking. Lazy reporting. This indicates more of what our future holds for us. Idiots who don't interact with their world and imagine they understand what's important in life.
- rhinohelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have you seen any of the IPv6 addresses? Good luck remembering any of them manually.
- M0b1u5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Honestly, what is the point of speculating on this topic? If someone in 1900 tried to do the same thing for the year 2000 - would they have the foggiest notion about what the emerging technologies would be? Here's a TINY list of SOME items and concepts that are totally alien, and unpredictable for someone in 1900: jet engines, Internet, computers, gene therapy, heart transplants, cell phones, TV, RADAR, CAT scans, AIDS, Digital Watches, GPS, satelite communications, Fibre Optics, pagers, velcro, Kevlar, Atomic Energy, Plasma Screens, lie detectors, Lasers, holograms, flash memory...
The list goes on and on.
Frankly, the article is a space filler. No one on the planet knows what the BIG THINGS of the 21st century will be - and anyone who is guessing is BOUND to be wrong - just as someone doing the same thing in 1900 would be wrong. Hell, they'd think we'd be struggling to find enough horses for everyone, and drowning under a sea of horse *****! - Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The first two are straight out of Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near". How this author thinks Alternative Fuels will trump the importance of Artificial Intelligence/Robotics - is beyond me.
- manofaction, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would like to add RFID (or similar wireless technologies) to that list....
- conna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1everyone will get a IPv6 address tattooed to there foreheads...
- miker71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1All 1990s cyberpunk concepts. Or 1980s. Or even 1950s depending what authors you read. I believe the three things that will change the world in my lifetime are:
1. Me
2. You
3. Them - jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1>Solar Robots
What do they do during the 12 plus/minus hours of darkness during the day? - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2French has some 5 or 6 tenses. English has only 3, Past, Present, and Future.
Mind boggling. - 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Solar Robots FTW !
my money is on
Mobile / physical world connection and search; next 2 years
Nanotech / Biotech; next 5 years
AI and Robot; OS next 10 years - krackle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ever heard of something called a battery? It's wild invention that lets you store energy and use it without a constant power source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29 - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Only first page: http://duggmirror.com/hardware/Three_Emerging_Technologies_that_Will_Change_the_World/
- BrandNewDigger, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1And the Chinese will be in control of all the IP addresses! Sounds like a great future, indeed! (No, I'm not racist, just anti-communist and pro-America.)
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6While I agree nano technology (and Bionetics, etc) will indeed change our world as we know it (eventually, no less), I was kind of hoping to see IPv6 on that list. Think about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6#Features_of_IPv6
The internet is being used by so many people. Think of the future IPv6 can hold, think of the possibilities. Every electronic thing could be tagged with an IP address. This makes doing clothes much more efficient.
A washing machine, for example, could send a text message to your cell phone when the cycle is complete.
Just thinking aloud. - cumic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0Ok, images are better than words:
http://www.20minutos.es/vineta/519781/0/10/2006/eneko/ - cumic, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3Like every technology (e.g. Internet), only a military investigation would cause important advances...
But we have to be optimists, in 50 years I will be a 20 years old guy again, thanks to this technologies. On the other hand, I don't sure the Earth will be here... - swanny89, on 10/12/2007, -32/+6Try learning english. it aren't that hard.
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