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Five Ideas That Will Rock the Very Foundation of Modern Computing

pcmag.com — We go behind the scenes at the biggest names in high-tech research, uncovering projects that will totally change the face of modern day computing.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 15, 2007

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  • dunezone, on 10/11/2007, -6/+46Number Six - Internet Ad Removal
  • xcheats, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39Number Seven - Removal of Unneeded "Next" Hyperlinks
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+41No digg ... for making me hit "next" to view actual material....
  • NessTheHero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30Oh man, I just love websites that have more ads and flash banners than actual words on them.
  • sedlock, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20jesus, what a horrible website.
  • diggsIt, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19PC Magazine should never be referred to. It's an ad trap.
  • zmjone2992, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16faster computers will rock the foundation of modern computing? whaaaa?
  • DOCKAUF55, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Five ads that will ***** up your browser.
  • mustnap, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16why don't the submitter just submit the PRINT page of this article? I hate to click NEXT and read only a couple of sentences and then click NEXT again..

    http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=209783,00.asp
  • hmunkey, on 10/11/2007, -6/+18Imax at home, cool, but not *groundbreaking*.
    Midair Mouse, KICK ASS, need I say more?
    The Perfect Machine, -sighs- I wish.
    Extreme peer-to-peer, see Midair Mouse.
    The Man-Made Brain, To be honest, this scares me. I guess I read too much sci-fi.
  • acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11So much for Microsoft Surface.
  • KingMoses, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8It's called the Printer-Friendly version. If only more digg submitters used it.
  • khyberkitsune, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8We already have mid-air gyro mice available. Trust me, it's maybe good for an hour-long powerpoint presentation, but if you game hardcore or do graphics design, having this thing in the air for extended periods of time is gonna start to suck on your shoulder. I own one, and it sits unused. I'll stick with my wireless optical.
  • jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Solve by looking for the "print" button (works for other sites that prefer 1ΒΆ multi-page layouts, too).
    It's easier than bitching, really!

    Ex.: http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=209783,00.asp
  • hmunkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Being honest Surface is amazing.
  • kiantech, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9the air mouse, didn't logitech announce mx air that does exactly that.
  • snapcase, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Very annoying website PCmag runs. Popunder ads included. And having to hit next for every bit of their list made me stop after the second page.
  • Kazbaeden, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Dude, quantum computers and a man-made brain made this list, technologies which are decades away. Surface will be available in December. I think there's a difference in scope here.
  • Lobster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Nothing on biodegradable computing and smart plants?
    Neoton and Cell processors are a start. However processors that provide results before the processing are required . . .
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/ING5LNJSBF1.DTL

    oh well there is always tomorrow
    http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/
  • jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Mock-ups, sketches, or prototypes, or it *won't* happen, you mean?

  • Lynx34, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5...and gyration which invented it like 8 years ago?
  • DimensionalPunk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5This is assuming we survive the zombie-pocalypse.
  • nakani, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5You call it bitching, I call it commenting on
  • egrumling, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Also, fixed text size, even with Firefox. Had to pull out the "no style" view.
  • soulpiercer7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4honestly. what the *****? I went out and downloaded "ad block plus", "nuke-anything-enhanced", and "remove object permanently" to try and make this thing bearable. I don't need to put up with this ***** when I'm trying to read an article.

    dugg for content but spit on for ad spam. please don't do this to me again...
  • antdude, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Then, post the print version: http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=209783,00.asp :P
  • egrumling, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Just because NBC couldn't figure out that TCP is not the correct method for streaming video from their web servers we need a "revolutionary" technology?

    It's called Multicasting. It has been around for a while. Place I work for uses it for one to many transmission, and will likely be using it down the road, too. Just need to get it on the public Internet (see also: Net Neutrality)

    http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm
  • rarson, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3So just how many times do we have to click before reading a complete article that is trying to get and maintain our attention? It may be easier, but it's certainly way more annoying.
  • bagboyrebel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3One day, your computer will be a big-ass table.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
  • BlueDjinn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3For a minute there, I thought it said "the foundation of MODEM computing", which made me think that the article would be from 1996 or so.
  • rodgy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Damn... I had a real hard time finding the actual meat and the "Next" links. There's like 90% advertising + junk on this site and 10% content.
  • nakani, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Hot damn, PC Magazine's website sucks ass! Things are flashing and popping up at you from every direction! I was too blinded to bother reading the article
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5I don't wanna print it, I wanna read it on my monitor. Is that too much to ask?
  • wolf530, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5Hopefully, PC Mag will not be a part of this bright future. No Digg -- this website almost crashed my browser.
  • acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'm not saying Surface isn't amazing, but very recently Surface was the future, now this is.
  • kurtu5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Head shot, apply directly to the forehead.
  • DesuKN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3They forgot mentioning a device that would allow you to remotely castrate people on the internet
  • OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Most of these don't even seem revolutionary. If they ever proved that P != NP, that would shake the very foundation of modern computing.
  • kurtu5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Amen brother.
  • jordanlund, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Buried for being on 5 pages and for the last page just being stupid.

    Milestones of the Future
    ... the 13 technologies guaranteed to change the world between now and 2020.

    "#6 2010
    The High-Def DVR
    Seagate releases a 3.5-inch hard drive that stores 3 terabytes of data. That's 3,000 gigabytes. We're talking about a digital video recorder that records nothing but high-def video."

    I hate to break it to them, but you don't have to wait until 2010... I've had one for over a year now and it only has a 250 GB HD. Records 30 hours of HD programming or 200 hours of SD.
  • tybris, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yikes, what a meaningless article.
  • mapkinase, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"Midair Mouse, KICK ASS, need I say more?"

    It does not kick no nothing because it hangs in midair on everything.
  • tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -1/+1Five things on five different pages. Are you gay?
  • lowerlogic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The simulated brain one sounds cool. If we could simulate human brains, big companies could outsource tech support to multi-lingual robots. I doubt any simulation will ever be able to invent a super human mind, but it could probably invent optimized simulation designs to make the "brain" run faster or using less processing power. If it could learn enough to understand its simulated mind enough to know exactly what parts of the virtual mind do what, it could probably invent a new simulated mind that can do math and all sorts of computations or physics simulations really fast, so it would be able to learn or test ideas it comes up very quickly.
  • Phlosten, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Can someone point me to the content? All I can see is advertising!
  • thripper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1click your link, i dare you ! ( the site seems to check the referer and will point to the ugly add infested version if you are not refered by their website)
  • jwdav, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11- Apple paid Xerox for a 2 hour tour of PARC with $7M in Apple stock options.
    2- The Xerox UI was extremely primitive - no menu's or overlapping windows etc.

    Xerox did have a three button mouse going on though ... in place of file menu's like select/cut/copy/paste
  • catxors, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Agreed, very lame. The storage thing and *maybe* the air mouse are kind of interesting, but the brain thing is pretty far out there and practical quantum computing is BS.
  • staticdrifter, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Here is more info. on the Soap mouse.
    http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/projects/soap/index.html
  • akuma624, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1young grasshopper - use the "print link" to get a better layout of the article and when used with the firefox adblock plugin - you see only content:

    http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=209783,00.asp

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