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Not impressed by high tech evolution? Just read 2007 ten emerging technologies.
And what's new just now?
about Computing
- Super lenses and chips, to see nanometers...
- Intel going on...
about Communication
- Optical fibers ... and the web
- IBM going on...
- and all the mobile stuff, changing potentially your life...
about Storage
- Nanotubes again...
- and flash memory on your desktop
about Man/Machine interfaces
- what about ultramobiles
- some virtual earphones
- Internet names length
- and emoticons...
- and last but not least, if you don't succeed to retrieve information (all those blogs !!!), why not organize your disorder?
About Moore's law, Intel still invest strongly in 45 nanometers technology in competition with AMD, IBM, ...
For the future, why not quantum computers? May be not ready !
..and atom thin graphite to build transistors...
And this fantastic technology, RFID, with all its opportunities and risks, now at 50 micrometer size !
Man/machines interface:
Suppressing the mouse, eye movement driven computer? It's an old dream. I already tried that in an IBM research lab years ago. A bit disorienting, with a funny feeling not to be allowed to look anywhere, and a sort of sea-sick impression. I hope they improved !
... and why not connect your brain directly to games?
...and how much data world wide? and what for? If we cannot absorb more than 1 info/s (short term memory size limitation), compute how many information you will be able to absorb during your all life (3 Billions ?). Multiply by the population (6 Billion?)... It give something at the level of zettabytes, considered by IDC as the level of amount of data stored around 2010...
So we will zap more and more !
About the advances about programming bots (intelligent agents), look at these social bots !
And the other face, risks are always there, hackers and co ...
What's next after still well living silicium ( yes , 45 nanometers...) to go-on on Moore's law?
Photonic computer is one of the opportunities.
Telephone still moving:
Ultramobile is the keyword. McKinsey (just register!) shows an interesting study about value of mobile phones...
Man/machine interface nice evolutions:
- Flexible plastics, flexible screens, even flexible RFIDs. Why not become invisible, with flexible screen as clothing and a camera behind you, reprojecting background image on the screen ....
- Night vision with new LEDs
and... are you lost in translation?
Mais attention: les technologies portent toujours leurs facteurs de risques !