That's what Google's Schmidt claims. Says sensors and devices willbe so widespread we won't sense them Says rooms will begin to personalise themselves as we walk in I'm really not technically aware to judge what he says. How about someone here? Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ed-says-robots-WON-T-world.html#ixzz3PeWYqCIG
Gates supposedly built his house in anticipation of this like 30 years ago and hasn't happened yet. People cannot afford their electric now. They sure as hell are not going to be able to afford to have LED/Plasma walls.
Mebbe, but I also see 40 inch TV's going for under $300, maybe $200, and prices going nowhere but down. Smart phones also very cheap, 2 years ago I got a non-phone tablet computer for free as a promo. One major thing I think few people appreciate fully because no one really knows what the effects will be is nanotechnology. Carried to its fullest extent this looks like the virtual world(s) becoming the real one. Rooms won't just personalize themselves to our specs but rebuild the entire house and maybe even the landscape the house is in. And in re affording our laser walls does not the 3d compiler herald Star Treks replicator and Kirk's Enterprise able to make rubies and emeralds? Once we have a machine able to build things atom by atom does that not end the Economy of Scarcity? Some books I've seen on that are The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson and Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
the internet will still be used for those items as well, especially the ones that are cloud based, your internet goes down, it becomes a dumb house again this is why smart things is changing their system in v2 to be able to function when the cloud goes down too, v1 depended too much on the cloud but you still need internet for your remote access to the home... alerts for smoke, ect.... were gonna become more dependent on the internet, not less heck our tv viewing will be mostly internet.... you may not "know" it's connected, unless the internet goes down though..... which is what he means I think it's kinda like people that do not "know" they use Linux, but use Tivo and Android phones .
While many things are theoretically possible, I do not foresee that world coming in the next several centuries. I think you will see the opposite. People will start downsizing and de-teching their lives as much as possible. Like right now, a lot of people are upset that Windows 10 has a set up that allows people to spy on the activities of users of their computer that most people do not know is there to be used. Eventually the privacy concerns with technology will reach its tipping point.
I would not doubt the gov had them put in a back door as well.... when your house knows your every move.. so might the government, I remember watching George Orwell and thinking tv's watching you.. never
The government doesn't need your house to watch you. Your cell phone works just as well for that today and you take it with you when you leave your house.
True dat. Too much wealth inequality, with too many on the low side of that equation, for widespread adoption of such gadgetry. Perhaps more importantly, though, they're not that compelling an application. It's a solution in search of a problem, I think, when you talk about having rooms full of sensors in order to "customise" a room or whatever. Is it that hard to flip a light switch or adjust a thermostat? No. We've reached a pretty good plateau as far as home comfort and convenience goes.
Some will, no doubt, and maybe the numbers will increase. But how many deny themselves modernity now? And what makes you think that lots more people will as we become more and more dependent on technology for our very lives every day? Privacy is a lost cause even now, and most people don't care.
they prefer information overload... we knew about 911, but we had so much information it was ignored - - - Updated - - - true, only need to look at face book to see that....
Depends on who the they's are. Saw an interview with one of the former directors of one of them agencies maybe 6 months ago--possibly Gates--that lead me to believe there is a wide internal divide between analysts and operatives on this issue of too much information. There is never too much info for analysts and operatives think that too much useless information needing to be sorted and analyzed is making operations more difficult, or something like that.
When I think about it, just how many people access the internet through PCs versus their cell or WiFi devices? I think we're seeing a boom in "mobile" technology that is totally ignoring brick and mortar environments. You?
Am I addicted to or dependent upon the internet? A question I had to ask myself the other day when my internet disappeared. Read about it on my blog @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
Futurists tend to exaggerate. Whatever happened to Moon bases and flying cars predicted by futurologists in the 1960s? We still drive predominantly internal combustion, ground based machines that rely upon the same fuel (oil) that powered the same type of machines over a century ago.
The Good Enough's will always outnumber the Gotta Have It's. I go through this with people about my dishwasher that sticks out like a sore thumb. It is 35 years old and still works. In 10 years it will still be working. No need to go buy one for $1K that will be dead in 7 years.
My ISP went down the tubes the other day and I panicked. What if it was actually my modem? What can I do without access to the internet? Anyhow, blogged about it @ http://lvcabbie.blogspot.com
Wow. I am amazed at the perception and understanding of American technology here. Almost everyone in the US has a smart phone. Wi-Fi is everywhere. In our homes, jobs, shopping malls, fast food, schools. The article in the first post was about the continued evolution and advancement if technology. AI is artificial intelligence...building computers that can reason and think and learn. The article in no way alluded to technology shrinking, but growing beyond what we ever imagined. Americans seldom use PC's away from their offuce desks. I am typing this post on my Galaxy 5-phone. My kids don't have textbooks, all school assignments are through class blogs and websites. We have smart tv's. We stream on Hulu and Netflix. Most Americans today have a smartphone by the time they are 8 or so with unlimited talk, text, and data internet). We watch movies, take pictures, surf the web, get news, communicate, listen to music, navigate our vacations, keep a calendar...we do everything with our phones.
The UN Unveils Plan Pushing For Worldwide Internet Censorship "... the United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only license those who agree to do so." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-26/un-unleashes-plan-pushing-worldwide-internet-censorship
The Flying Cars were predicted by their inventor, Sikorsky, in a confident knowledge that they would become much easier to fly, which they didn't. The personal computer. OTOH, was seen as something we would only have when we were hobnobbing among the stars. Progress progresses, but not monolithically and not at the rates we think it will. As for the moonbases, I dunno, my own favorite conspiracy theory is there was someone there before us and they told us to stay home for a while. NASA didn't find that a very confident and hopeful message to deliver, of course, and so just bought some computers and new satellites from them
Slightly off topic but read a piece this morning where ad blockers are hurting small web sites who rely on the revenue to keep going. We all see pleas for donations to help keep the sites going. But then, how many of us block the ads that keep them going? I just turned mine off. ☺
