The technology is undeniably fast changing, the merge of people and machine, with the sudden explosion of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, resulted in a world which seems to be unpredictable. The technological change was so fast and far-reaching that the human existence had been altered. People are smart that new technology is just close in their hands. As we see, we are close to the enormous changes since the trend in quickening the nature of technological innovation is progressing exponentially. Exponential growth starts slowly and virtually unnoticeable, but beyond on it, it turns into explosive and transformative enough to say that each span of time changes the paradigm in technology.
In last decades, the internet as a mainstream technology had influenced a big change in the form of new technology. It was said that the major new trend of the technology in the year 2008 growing globally was the social and networking sites. Sites like Google Finance discussions are growing participant sin the country over the world. It offers investors the chance to chat about their stocks. The prospect of the world using global computer network is to develop greater understanding in communication. There is an easy access to bank and accounts, etc. People even in remote area are now finding new benefits for the internet everyday, e-bay for example. Even the fact that digital divide became an issue because not all people have easy access to the internet, but then, as a trend the users are growing working online and soon getting on the internet as a commodity.
In the aspect of knowing the new technology emerging at this point of time, there is no way to state them all since there are rapid developments in different area of technology in different corners of the world – transportation, communication, business, medicine, robotics, energy, education, materials, etc. And then, what’s next? In transportation, what should power the world’s vehicles in the next few decades, could it be more sustainable in the aspect of increasing global competition, even the part it could play in developing markets. Most experts nowadays are researching to have addressing a constructive way concerning the energy, the environment and the globalization. This just one of the issues they are concern for. People are now making solutions on how to renew the ruined world, and not only that, people are now renewing the face of technology in more portable, smarter, smaller, and associated in new lifestyle.
Now, this discussion just limit on the technologies where people or students like me could relate with, in short not that in sophisticated area. Smarter mobile phones, smaller memory sticks, remote storage, wireless internet, : the world technology in the year 2008 and developing for the next years.
Smaller yet smarter phones and computer. Apple released the iphone, no one would ever miss that fact. They prove that mobile phones could have easy interface in sexy package. The phone is now a functioning like a computer as they called smartphones. This is because of the development of smarter, smaller, less power usage computer chip integrated in the phone. Intel Silverthorne 45nm processor delivers computer performance comparable to a desktop computer. This technology uses just 10 times less power than today’s low power processors and can work in Wifi, 3g, wimax. More smart phones just as iphone versions are now expected and the breakthrough of the paperback-size laptops.
Portable yet large data storage. As we could observe in general, as the computer processor get smaller, so does the computer memory physical size, but then that is not the way it is anymore. As the components became more constricted, they create a weird quantum effects. By tracing the amount of copper and silicon, they believe that they could develop a flash memory that could even hold a terabyte of data. We had seen a terabyte-sized memory in some stores, but then it was then possible to be in the remote storage. Remote storage frees-up space on the hard-drive and could be a back-up in the case the computer is destroyed. In fact several companies are now offering this remote data storage, but then most are just in MB. Just as the site I am using, the hotlinkfiles which gave me about 50megabyte remote storage for free.
Digital radio. The radio is now going to be digital which allows the radio stations broadcast multiple channels, with data and images such as the pictures of artists during a song. So we are now expecting this 2009 that we could hear a bit along digital radio. The digital audio broadcast, which gives a better audio quality, is ready in the market, including the plug-in which allows users to tune in to the digital radio.
The new face of book. As experienced, reading on the screens seems harder than on the typical book which is paper-based, and this fact explains why ebooks haven’t taken off. Online book store Amazon has its Kindle which uses a unique ink technology which mimics the appearance of print on paper to an electronic screen display. The screen is readable enough for most lighting conditions, indoor and out. Kindle can be configured to automatically download newspapers, etc. and can play music files and spoken word books; But then, this not the end of the paperback books, the espresso book machine can produce a made-to-order books in just a few minutes. It was then known as ATM book machine, Once the pages are printed, an electronically controlled clamp integrates the paper together, glue, trim, and deliver the product out of a slot at the button. (I guess this would be a nice idea for my twilight saga books from pdf document). These technologies may lead the world’s libraries and bookstores into this kind of change.
Wireless internet ends up the old telephone. Voice over IP had been developed for more cheaper phone calls in the last few years, but now the introduction of naked dsl or the broadband with conventional phobe service and the rapid growth of wireless technology, migrates the in this service from the traditional old plain telephone service providers. It was then foresee that in the near future, this service includes the voicemails in email inbox, fax converted to pdf when emailed, and the possibility to direct multiple recipients in one handset.
Wireless USB. Universal Serial Bus had been a standard for transferring files from one device to another, and as we noticed, it is now a commodity in every students, in there school files, some are associated in phones, mp3s etc. There was a new face of this, the wireless USB which uses ultra-wideband radio to transfer data at the distance of three meters, compared in wired USB 2.0, and the several hundred times faster than Bluetooth. It would be faster with the transfer rate of 4.8 gigabits a second, about ten times faster than USB 2.0 standard. It is expected to be out of the market this 2009, and expect more development on it.
Knowing everywhere I go. GPS or the Global Positioning System network exists more than a decade. It had been associated iphones, cars and aircrafts to help us determine where we are, in quicker and more accurate than using a traditional map. MySpot, was then launched which gives the ability to send alert from their mobile phones in panic button. It would send phone message and its GPS position that can be used to locate the respondent. Parents can now locate their ch9ils, when they arrive or leave at the particular place, such as school, friend’s house, etc.
Wearable Electronics. With the great influence of nanotechnology, it almost enters all field of technology. Through nanotechnology, experts tend to develop electronic fibers that can be woven into fibers, with interesting applications. Now clothes are not just to look good and feel comfortable, but also associated with the new style, wearable electronics. There is what we call wearable air guitar an incorporated sensor woven in shirts; a plastic badges that can be worn to detect mental depression when the person interacts conversation; a lumalive which contains special light emitting diodes integrated in to fabric to live display or billboards of texts, animations and moving images; fabric with built-in sensors and heaters; boots that can generate small amount of electricity and can even charge an mp3 player.
There are so many new technology emerges in the year 2008, would be common in this year 2009, and an expected development for the next few years. Some of the general technology was focused in energy, communication, web, and medicine to mention.
New and next in energy. The year 2008 marks a big oil price hike, which lead for more motivation to develop an alternative-source of energy. Ordinarily, the flat wires on the surface of solar cells that are used to collect electrical current prevent light from reaching the active material in a cell, reducing efficiency. The company’s new design traps much of the light that would have been reflected. The new approach dramatically helps improve the performance of solar cells without increasing costs. A number of improvements to wind turbines increases also the amount of power they could produce and make wind power cheaper, among of it is its blade design. The experts are looking forward also for better batteries for cars and other devices. Some cars are plug-in hybrids or what they so called electric cars, which consumes renewable powers rather than consuming great fuel from coals.
Web. Our collective obsession with social networking sites continued and burst until this year. Although the economy is not that good enough, the enthusiasm in sites continue to run high. Twitter, a popular but non-money-making poster child for the whole Web 2.0 industry, spawned an ecosystem of competitors, knockoffs, plug-ins, and add-ons, some of which struggled to stay afloat as the site strained under the ever-increasing amount of data produced and requested by its users. Users themselves struggled to manage information overload from multiple social-networking services, prompting some companies to come up with ways to streamline by sharing data. However, one of the biggest networks, Face book, took a different approach: it carved out a position apart from its competitors. Web companies became cheaper to start than ever before; they could simply lease access to computer power from a growing list of cloud computing providers. On the other hand, since many infrastructure services are offered by large companies such as Amazon and Google, these raised questions about smaller companies' increasing dependence on these giants. Amazon's popular storage service also began functioning as a way to draw companies into relying on more and more of Amazon's offerings. And a variety of open-source solutions jumped into the mix, hoping to make it easier for companies to understand how these infrastructure services work, while, in some cases, also grabbing a bit of market share for themselves.
Robotics. Biochemical robots which make more complex experimental surgeries, winged robots in military purpose, where few to mention about robotics, and now researchers are marched in developing robots that would travel through the blood to zap a tumor. Robotic grasping and learning is becoming sophisticated enough that people may soon be able to simply gesture to any object that they want and, without needing to program specifics, rely on a robot to retrieve it. A robot demonstrated this year at Georgia Tech, El-E (pronounced "Ellie"), a wheeled, one-armed robot, follows a green laser pointer to retrieve objects. While doctors have used capsule cameras for the past few years to image the insides of patients, they hope for ways to control such a camera so that it pauses at areas of interest. Scientists would also like to give these tiny explorers the abilities to take samples or directly treat areas of interest.
With this rapid change, some would definitely romanticize the past, and some would amaze for the future. The technology changes its face as the time passes, but then time is not the main reason for it, it’s because on the changes we want to have. Innovations and inventions give breakthrough in the stage of the technology, and we can’t deny the fact that we had been part of it. Our demands, unending satisfaction, greediness, powered by imaginative minds and skills brings out the new technology. Change is constant, and indeed we are living on it. Discoveries are not new anymore, and we are in bliss that it is helping our daily lives. With this, we must be responsible enough in using it and employ based on the purpose why I was then develop. I know, in just few years and decades to come, new world would face me through because of the great technology evolution, there’s nothing wrong to live the way it flows, but then for the common betterment, let must put in mind that we must be responsible in every steps we do.
In last decades, the internet as a mainstream technology had influenced a big change in the form of new technology. It was said that the major new trend of the technology in the year 2008 growing globally was the social and networking sites. Sites like Google Finance discussions are growing participant sin the country over the world. It offers investors the chance to chat about their stocks. The prospect of the world using global computer network is to develop greater understanding in communication. There is an easy access to bank and accounts, etc. People even in remote area are now finding new benefits for the internet everyday, e-bay for example. Even the fact that digital divide became an issue because not all people have easy access to the internet, but then, as a trend the users are growing working online and soon getting on the internet as a commodity.
In the aspect of knowing the new technology emerging at this point of time, there is no way to state them all since there are rapid developments in different area of technology in different corners of the world – transportation, communication, business, medicine, robotics, energy, education, materials, etc. And then, what’s next? In transportation, what should power the world’s vehicles in the next few decades, could it be more sustainable in the aspect of increasing global competition, even the part it could play in developing markets. Most experts nowadays are researching to have addressing a constructive way concerning the energy, the environment and the globalization. This just one of the issues they are concern for. People are now making solutions on how to renew the ruined world, and not only that, people are now renewing the face of technology in more portable, smarter, smaller, and associated in new lifestyle.
Now, this discussion just limit on the technologies where people or students like me could relate with, in short not that in sophisticated area. Smarter mobile phones, smaller memory sticks, remote storage, wireless internet, : the world technology in the year 2008 and developing for the next years.
Smaller yet smarter phones and computer. Apple released the iphone, no one would ever miss that fact. They prove that mobile phones could have easy interface in sexy package. The phone is now a functioning like a computer as they called smartphones. This is because of the development of smarter, smaller, less power usage computer chip integrated in the phone. Intel Silverthorne 45nm processor delivers computer performance comparable to a desktop computer. This technology uses just 10 times less power than today’s low power processors and can work in Wifi, 3g, wimax. More smart phones just as iphone versions are now expected and the breakthrough of the paperback-size laptops.
Portable yet large data storage. As we could observe in general, as the computer processor get smaller, so does the computer memory physical size, but then that is not the way it is anymore. As the components became more constricted, they create a weird quantum effects. By tracing the amount of copper and silicon, they believe that they could develop a flash memory that could even hold a terabyte of data. We had seen a terabyte-sized memory in some stores, but then it was then possible to be in the remote storage. Remote storage frees-up space on the hard-drive and could be a back-up in the case the computer is destroyed. In fact several companies are now offering this remote data storage, but then most are just in MB. Just as the site I am using, the hotlinkfiles which gave me about 50megabyte remote storage for free.
Digital radio. The radio is now going to be digital which allows the radio stations broadcast multiple channels, with data and images such as the pictures of artists during a song. So we are now expecting this 2009 that we could hear a bit along digital radio. The digital audio broadcast, which gives a better audio quality, is ready in the market, including the plug-in which allows users to tune in to the digital radio.
The new face of book. As experienced, reading on the screens seems harder than on the typical book which is paper-based, and this fact explains why ebooks haven’t taken off. Online book store Amazon has its Kindle which uses a unique ink technology which mimics the appearance of print on paper to an electronic screen display. The screen is readable enough for most lighting conditions, indoor and out. Kindle can be configured to automatically download newspapers, etc. and can play music files and spoken word books; But then, this not the end of the paperback books, the espresso book machine can produce a made-to-order books in just a few minutes. It was then known as ATM book machine, Once the pages are printed, an electronically controlled clamp integrates the paper together, glue, trim, and deliver the product out of a slot at the button. (I guess this would be a nice idea for my twilight saga books from pdf document). These technologies may lead the world’s libraries and bookstores into this kind of change.
Wireless internet ends up the old telephone. Voice over IP had been developed for more cheaper phone calls in the last few years, but now the introduction of naked dsl or the broadband with conventional phobe service and the rapid growth of wireless technology, migrates the in this service from the traditional old plain telephone service providers. It was then foresee that in the near future, this service includes the voicemails in email inbox, fax converted to pdf when emailed, and the possibility to direct multiple recipients in one handset.
Wireless USB. Universal Serial Bus had been a standard for transferring files from one device to another, and as we noticed, it is now a commodity in every students, in there school files, some are associated in phones, mp3s etc. There was a new face of this, the wireless USB which uses ultra-wideband radio to transfer data at the distance of three meters, compared in wired USB 2.0, and the several hundred times faster than Bluetooth. It would be faster with the transfer rate of 4.8 gigabits a second, about ten times faster than USB 2.0 standard. It is expected to be out of the market this 2009, and expect more development on it.
Knowing everywhere I go. GPS or the Global Positioning System network exists more than a decade. It had been associated iphones, cars and aircrafts to help us determine where we are, in quicker and more accurate than using a traditional map. MySpot, was then launched which gives the ability to send alert from their mobile phones in panic button. It would send phone message and its GPS position that can be used to locate the respondent. Parents can now locate their ch9ils, when they arrive or leave at the particular place, such as school, friend’s house, etc.
Wearable Electronics. With the great influence of nanotechnology, it almost enters all field of technology. Through nanotechnology, experts tend to develop electronic fibers that can be woven into fibers, with interesting applications. Now clothes are not just to look good and feel comfortable, but also associated with the new style, wearable electronics. There is what we call wearable air guitar an incorporated sensor woven in shirts; a plastic badges that can be worn to detect mental depression when the person interacts conversation; a lumalive which contains special light emitting diodes integrated in to fabric to live display or billboards of texts, animations and moving images; fabric with built-in sensors and heaters; boots that can generate small amount of electricity and can even charge an mp3 player.
There are so many new technology emerges in the year 2008, would be common in this year 2009, and an expected development for the next few years. Some of the general technology was focused in energy, communication, web, and medicine to mention.
New and next in energy. The year 2008 marks a big oil price hike, which lead for more motivation to develop an alternative-source of energy. Ordinarily, the flat wires on the surface of solar cells that are used to collect electrical current prevent light from reaching the active material in a cell, reducing efficiency. The company’s new design traps much of the light that would have been reflected. The new approach dramatically helps improve the performance of solar cells without increasing costs. A number of improvements to wind turbines increases also the amount of power they could produce and make wind power cheaper, among of it is its blade design. The experts are looking forward also for better batteries for cars and other devices. Some cars are plug-in hybrids or what they so called electric cars, which consumes renewable powers rather than consuming great fuel from coals.
Web. Our collective obsession with social networking sites continued and burst until this year. Although the economy is not that good enough, the enthusiasm in sites continue to run high. Twitter, a popular but non-money-making poster child for the whole Web 2.0 industry, spawned an ecosystem of competitors, knockoffs, plug-ins, and add-ons, some of which struggled to stay afloat as the site strained under the ever-increasing amount of data produced and requested by its users. Users themselves struggled to manage information overload from multiple social-networking services, prompting some companies to come up with ways to streamline by sharing data. However, one of the biggest networks, Face book, took a different approach: it carved out a position apart from its competitors. Web companies became cheaper to start than ever before; they could simply lease access to computer power from a growing list of cloud computing providers. On the other hand, since many infrastructure services are offered by large companies such as Amazon and Google, these raised questions about smaller companies' increasing dependence on these giants. Amazon's popular storage service also began functioning as a way to draw companies into relying on more and more of Amazon's offerings. And a variety of open-source solutions jumped into the mix, hoping to make it easier for companies to understand how these infrastructure services work, while, in some cases, also grabbing a bit of market share for themselves.
Robotics. Biochemical robots which make more complex experimental surgeries, winged robots in military purpose, where few to mention about robotics, and now researchers are marched in developing robots that would travel through the blood to zap a tumor. Robotic grasping and learning is becoming sophisticated enough that people may soon be able to simply gesture to any object that they want and, without needing to program specifics, rely on a robot to retrieve it. A robot demonstrated this year at Georgia Tech, El-E (pronounced "Ellie"), a wheeled, one-armed robot, follows a green laser pointer to retrieve objects. While doctors have used capsule cameras for the past few years to image the insides of patients, they hope for ways to control such a camera so that it pauses at areas of interest. Scientists would also like to give these tiny explorers the abilities to take samples or directly treat areas of interest.
With this rapid change, some would definitely romanticize the past, and some would amaze for the future. The technology changes its face as the time passes, but then time is not the main reason for it, it’s because on the changes we want to have. Innovations and inventions give breakthrough in the stage of the technology, and we can’t deny the fact that we had been part of it. Our demands, unending satisfaction, greediness, powered by imaginative minds and skills brings out the new technology. Change is constant, and indeed we are living on it. Discoveries are not new anymore, and we are in bliss that it is helping our daily lives. With this, we must be responsible enough in using it and employ based on the purpose why I was then develop. I know, in just few years and decades to come, new world would face me through because of the great technology evolution, there’s nothing wrong to live the way it flows, but then for the common betterment, let must put in mind that we must be responsible in every steps we do.
3 comments:
we can never be afraid of what the future has stored for us if we are prepared enough to face it...
everything would be surely fresh and new in what the future has ins store for us.
the future is always something to look forward too.. being afraid of it is normal since it is unknown to us but we must always be able to look it in the eyes
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