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[SIR Philbutt]

This is unreal. However, go back 10 years or so and what were your thoughts about some of the things we have today?

If you own Apple shares, keep a close eye on what's happening next. Don't believe the hype about Apple going to $600 per share and beyond.
Wonder why HP, Dell and other leading computer manufacturers believe the end of the computer as we know it is near.
It's not the iPad that has them concerned about the future, it is developments like the ones Corning is working on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=medium

and look at the car dash in this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_424843&feature=iv&src_vid=6Cf7IL_eZ38&v=jZkHpNnXLB0

[blackviper90210]

Not sure I'd want a see through mobile that everyone could see tbh, but do like some of the other tech..... very clever

[feeutfo]

Take the current iPhone forward in Development, just as an Example.

Wouldn't be too hard to project an image from the camera into the background of the phone screen as a wall paper, to give it an invisible appearance without actually being transparent.
Then fit a low res screen in place of the current glass on the reverse.

And in some software to narrow the angles and stop shake it might work. Logical step then is to make transparent for real. Interesting.

Might also make it a bit invisible though. Touch screen in a car is a pita IMO.
As the screen moves with the car. Joy stick and clicker is far more accurate ime.

Nice ideas though.

[Kevin Wood]

See, if that had been me, one of LBC's finest would have gone through that bathroom mirror.

9:30 is now 8:30 indeed? Foxtrott Oscar!

[feeutfo]

Yes Kev, had similar thoughts.

When it comes to bathroom habits. pooh time is my time.

[Dishevelled Den]

I quite like this sort of thing - being a bit of an odd big bastid, but I do see some drawbacks with such an advance in this type of technology.

Will there be sufficient affordable energy to run all this equipment? 

With so much remote technology placed to run in almost every conceivable location we care to consider, will the use of WiFi (or whatever) to this extent (always on, everywhere) be detrimental to health when added to the already worrying amount of EM radiation, RF radiation, solar radiation and so on already bombarding us from all points of the compass?

However something else concerns me to an even greater extent, and that is the likelihood that a total surrender of privacy will be necessary to successfully allow these systems to run efficiently – further, I believe that by buying into this wholesale exposure of our daily lives we will ultimately lose what little remains of our personal freedoms and independence.

The acceptance of such all-seeing, all-knowing technology by vast swaths of the population would also make it much easier for the state to control and disseminate information and to target those considered to be of ‘risk’ due to the type on data they’re generating.

It seems to me that this revolution has already started, now that we communicate using the tools we presently have, but I strongly suspect that our addiction to information technology, the internet, Face Book, Twitter, Linked-in and whatever other form of ‘social networking’ one cares to mention, will hand an open invitation to those aboard the bridge of the good ship ‘Oceania’* to be in a position to become ever more involved in the daily existence of each and every one of us.


*Launched in 1984 to ply the high seas of state control.

Eyethangyew.