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aartlett wrote:was magnets wrapped in gold wire.

Gold WOW!

All this reminds be a famous quote of Bill Gate said on 1981
640K ought to be enough for anybody.

JB Watson (vice president of IBM) asserted - I think it was in 1952 or thereabouts - that the world market for computers seemed to be "about five".

The frightening thing is that in 10-15 years the next generations of computer professional will listen with open-eyed wonder to stories of the "wild days at the beginning of the 21st century" when people actually still used those antiques called "monitors", "keyboards" and "mice" and when home PCs actually had less than a TB of main memory and were plugged into the wall to use electricity instead of implanted and run off the body's electrical current.

ArndW wrote:.... use electricity instead of implanted and run off the body's electrical current.

Thats a cute advanced thought. As you say, its no wonder if could see the advanced micro flat screen monitor of now, in antique show of IBM's firm entrance in few years.

ArndW wrote:The frightening thing is that in 10-15 years the next generations of computer professional will listen with open-eyed wonder to stories of the "wild days at the beginning of the 21st century" when people actually still used those antiques called "monitors", "keyboards" and "mice" and when home PCs actually had less than a TB of main memory and were plugged into the wall to use electricity instead of implanted and run off the body's electrical current.

Fiction or Fact
Well! Fiction for now but not for long. Arnd, you could very well start writing Sci-Fi novels.

ArndW wrote:when home PCs actually had less than a TB of main memory and were plugged into the wall to use electricity instead of implanted and run off the body's electrical current.

Adding to that:
When the future processors share the processing power of the human brain interacting through a neuron bus at cosmic speeds. And then progressing to form the world human grid.

I remember reading about the advanced technology in Dick Tracy's watch and was sure that one day it would become a common accessory and I would own one. That certainly leapfrogged past a mere timepiece!

What I really think might be a near-future technology is a holographic keyboard. I really want one of those babies!

ArndW wrote:I remember reading about the advanced technology in Dick Tracy's watch and was sure that one day it would become a common accessory and I would own one. That certainly leapfrogged past a mere timepiece!

Dick Tracy....One of my favourites.

ArndW wrote:What I really think might be a near-future technology is a holographic keyboard. I really want one of those babies!

Are they still near-future? They are already in the market. Check these:
URL1, URL2.

They already have a working prototype of the interface seen in the movie Minority Report. Actually, most of the author's (Phillip K. Dick) works involve future technology and made interesting movies:

A Scanner Darkly
Paycheck
Minority Report
Imposter
Total Recall
Blade Runner

Cool stuffs... :D

ps. I seem to remember something similar in Children of Men as well...

wow - not quite holographic but good enough for me. I want one!!

With these the monitors, can become obsolete

Bah... you want one of these.

chulett wrote:They already have a working prototype of the interface seen in the movie Minority Report. Actually, most of the author's (Phillip K. Dick) works involve future technology and made interesting movies:

A Scanner Darkly
Paycheck
Minority Report
Imposter
Total Recall
Blade Runner

Cool stuffs... :D

ps. I seem to remember something similar in Children of Men as well...

I always think/thought "Hollywood" has/had quite a bit of an impact on future technology. Not to forget those ingenious Sci-Fi authors, namely, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke and Isaac Asimov.

Whale.

chulett wrote:Bah... you want one of these.

Can i have that but not with the office image

I_Server_Whale wrote:[q has/had quite a bit of an impact on future technology. Not to forget those ingenious Sci-Fi authors, namely, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke and Isaac Asimov.

I think the impact Robert Heinlein had was possibly larger. The term Waldo was first used in his novels and Water Beds cannot be patented due to the accurate description he made in one of his novels has made it "Prior Art".

Waldo, TANSTAAFL, Grok are words used today that we coined by him. He and Larry Niven were some of the earliest to use acronyms in place of common phrases (TANSTAAFL, TANJ (it)). Acronyms were around but they used them as though everybody knew them, much like today.