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Let's Look waaay ahead!

Tesla coils would have to be in a sealed unit or something since they generate ozone. You may as well let your furnace leak carbon monoxide throughout your house while you're at it.

I personally don't think any sort of technology is really going to bust out in the next ten years, except for maybe wearable computing and nanotechnology. It'd be nice to see houses wired for home networking (main server and terminals located in each room - except maybe the bathroom, but then, ya never know). I know terminals aren't very popular, but I've alawys liked the idea of having a main server and smaller, less-obtrusive terminals. I'd also like to see fiber optics and OLEDs go mainstream. Combine all your entertainment and communication into one system. Be able to communicate from any terminal in the house or on your massive screen in the living room.

My personal wish for some new technology though would be the technology that removes telemarketing from the earth. I won't go on a rant about it though.
 
Faster SOFTWARE, not just faster hardware!

If anyone in 1995 would have told me that I would have to wait as long for iCal to open on a 600 MHz iBook with 640 MB RAM as I had to wait for MS Mail to open in Windows 95 on a P75 with 8 MB RAM, I'd have thought they were crazy.

What all these software developers need to do is make faster software, not just more and more bloated and sluggish software that defeats the purpose of all this faster and faster hardware.

I find it very disillusioning when I have to wait 10-15 seconds for certain things to happen on my beautiful iBook in the year 2002 when I have all this blazingly fast hardware at my fingertips.

Please don't flame me just because I'm not being an Apple Zealot. I switched to Apple in the beginning of 2001 hoping for a better computing experience than I'd ever had in six years of PC computing. For the most part, I'm glad I switched, but I'm sorely disappointed when applications are as slow as molasses in January. Tell me I'm not alone! :eek:
 
Originally posted by dukestreet


That all depends on how long we end up living. And things like this are sort of waiting around for a breakthrough. While I would generally agree, I'm not totally sure it couldn't happen, we might get a surprise.


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what, another 100-200 years ;)

i, too, am hoping for a breakthrough

i have also hoped that we can find a practical way to travel between solar systems...right now, it looks bleak...but who knows

who thought in world war II that we would use some of the german scientists to help us bring men to the moon and back?

but since the moon, we have not been to any planets or their moons...i am getting ancy:D but in the meantime, we have star trek
 
Re: Faster SOFTWARE, not just faster hardware!

Originally posted by Switcher2001
If anyone in 1995 would have told me that I would have to wait as long for iCal to open on a 600 MHz iBook with 640 MB RAM as I had to wait for MS Mail to open in Windows 95 on a P75 with 8 MB RAM, I'd have thought they were crazy.

What all these software developers need to do is make faster software, not just more and more bloated and sluggish software that defeats the purpose of all this faster and faster hardware.

I find it very disillusioning when I have to wait 10-15 seconds for certain things to happen on my beautiful iBook in the year 2002 when I have all this blazingly fast hardware at my fingertips.

Please don't flame me just because I'm not being an Apple Zealot. I switched to Apple in the beginning of 2001 hoping for a better computing experience than I'd ever had in six years of PC computing. For the most part, I'm glad I switched, but I'm sorely disappointed when applications are as slow as molasses in January. Tell me I'm not alone! :eek:
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AGREED!

I find most applications to run quite fast in OS X 10.2, except for
iCal
MS Office (Especially WORD and ENTOURAGE! BLOODY SLOW!!!! Word is sluggish as hell when dealing with graphics!)
iPhoto (choppy scrolling)
the new Mail is also slow

In any case, everything is slower than OS 9! It just ain't responsive enough! There should be a way of turning off the freakin transparency of menus and so forth! Maybe the OS can detect when the CPU is having a heavy load, and stop the 'eye candy' that bogs down the CPU!

OK, enough complaints. It's real pretty! It's real pretty, and REAL SLOW at certain tasks. There is this 'lag' that happens all the time... annoying.


SOFTWARE speed MUST INCREASE! A freakin PowerPC G4 should be able to open iCal in less than 3 seconds!
 
lets look WAY in the future? Molecular technology and biotech!
There is already development being done on molecular processors, and there is already work being done on organic hard drives. Some day probably during our life times we will see computers that dont even resemble what we are using now.
(Yeah i know i know probably not 2010.. but maybe 2020 :p)
 
Originally posted by Chaszmyr
lets look WAY in the future? Molecular technology and biotech!
There is already development being done on molecular processors, and there is already work being done on organic hard drives. Some day probably during our life times we will see computers that dont even resemble what we are using now.
(Yeah i know i know probably not 2010.. but maybe 2020 :p)
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i was in on this house remodel and i wanted to get my friend to do the cat 5e in the walls so at least some of the "wires" would be out of sight

i would like to build a 1U computer completely into a desk or drawer and only have a mouse keyboard and flat panel monitor in sight when one enters the room

having a wooden leaf that goes up and down from the desk which has a lcd in it would be nice and the keyboard and mouse could be on a concealable sliding tray so when one walks into the room, all they see is a mahogany or oak desk...all wires would be behind the wall

as for the printer and scanner...um...that would take a little more creativity to hide

but one day there will be no visible computers

and of course, the cpu could be soft and wearable and so cheap as to have a different cpu in every item of clothing

picture this...two teens making out

"i can't find the latch to your bra to get it off"

"that's the master lan/wan switch you idiot"

;) :eek: :p
 
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