http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/ge-vscan-portable-ultrasound-earns-the-leonard-mccoy-seal-of-app/
These are getting smaller and smaller. Pack them with some more stuff, loose the need for body contact like those new Airport machines etc and were about there.
Our generation has to be the luckiest so far, Seen some amazing progress in technology since I was a kid. Just boggles sometimes.
When I think about the terrabytes sitting under my desk compared to High School and College and the "Turbo Button".
Oh and Proper 3D without glasses is not to far off either.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
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These are getting smaller and smaller. Pack them with some more stuff, loose the need for body contact like those new Airport machines etc and were about there.
Our generation has to be the luckiest so far, Seen some amazing progress in technology since I was a kid. Just boggles sometimes.
When I think about the terrabytes sitting under my desk compared to High School and College and the "Turbo Button".
Ive recently come to the conclusion that we are living in the future.
Remember your reaction to the interface Tom Cruise uses in Minority Report the first time you saw it? Consider it now. Whether or not we would want to is another question, but Im damn sure we could build that now if we wanted to, possibly even do a bit better.
I just actually clicked on your link.
Wow. Thats amazing!
Wont be long till the futuristic 3D holographic displays used in the likes of Bones will become reality it seems!
I wonder if, having grown up with this technological progression, I/we will keep up with it, or whether it will just continue to advance at such a pace that when were all 60, the things the youth of that day are using will totally boggle us?
Its slightly worrying how many times the guy says "just like a smart phone" "just like a flip phone", like the golf advert doing the rounds at the moment ><
Quote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
Not to forget the summer of love?
And the Dave channel.
Quote from: EddQuote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
The difference is, our generation has grown with the computing age. The generations before dont understand it, and future generations are already starting to take it for granted. Were not the luckiest, but were certainly the most humbled by our own advancement I would think.
Quote from: Clockd 0NeQuote from: EddQuote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
The difference is, our generation has grown with the computing age. The generations before dont understand it, and future generations are already starting to take it for granted. Were not the luckiest, but were certainly the most humbled by our own advancement I would think.
I wouldnt call us lucky. Im gutted im not about 2yrs old now.
ive had to grow up with 2 colours graphics & games loading from tape.
Yep, youve just proven yourself as case in point.
Id like to be 5 years old again so I can actually understand mobile phones! :shrug:
When I was really young the only computers ran on valves, took up a huge room, and cost millions.
The commodore pet was new when I was leaving school. I did computer stuff at school on a teletype that output paper.
Every generation is the luckiest yet, but they dont realise it. They take what they are born into for granted.
Consider what you lot get against earning 60 pence a day and trying to keep your family alive. Or how about being in a drought ridden country where the only food available is from relief agencies? You own a pair of trousers, shoes and a T-shirt at best.
as for understanding mobile phones, I do, you dont have to be young to do that. What I want to understand is women.
Quote from: EddQuote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
True but our era is the fastest progressing of all time. The amount of discoveries, development, technology etc its the fastest. There was a great show about it, forget the name. Was a really good watch.
I showed Nige a thing the other day. Someone has made a material robot that basically can take up multiple shapes. Its like a big set of polygon rubbers with wires which they can program to take many shapes and even move around.
They say once things shrink it can slide up to a crack in blob form, squeeze in, take shape of a ball to role down a hill and another to stop etc. Pretty clever stuff.
Quote from: neXusQuote from: EddQuote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
True but our era is the fastest progressing of all time. The amount of discoveries, development, technology etc its the fastest. There was a great show about it, forget the name. Was a really good watch.
I showed Nige a thing the other day. Someone has made a material robot that basically can take up multiple shapes. Its like a big set of polygon rubbers with wires which they can program to take many shapes and even move around.
They say once things shrink it can slide up to a crack in blob form, squeeze in, take shape of a ball to role down a hill and another to stop etc. Pretty clever stuff.
I saw a demo of something similar to that a few months ago. The one I saw was composed of a few blocks maybe 10cm across each and could connect/disconnect the blocks as needed to perform a task. It was pretty basic but the potential for the technology is obvious.
Im genuinely excited to see what it will be that I cant understand when Im 60. Just hope I can manage to be the equivalent of the "silver surfer" generation now and actually get my head around whatever it is.
Quote from: neXusQuote from: EddQuote from: neXusOur generation has to be the luckiest so far
Im pretty sure previous generations thought they were, and future generations will think they are
in the end, its all relative.
I think the generation around in the 60s were pretty lucky, there were some pretty good advancements then! the moon landings to name one
True but our era is the fastest progressing of all time. The amount of discoveries, development, technology etc its the fastest. There was a great show about it, forget the name. Was a really good watch.
I showed Nige a thing the other day. Someone has made a material robot that basically can take up multiple shapes. Its like a big set of polygon rubbers with wires which they can program to take many shapes and even move around.
They say once things shrink it can slide up to a crack in blob form, squeeze in, take shape of a ball to role down a hill and another to stop etc. Pretty clever stuff.
Youve just answered the question though. We may be the fastest progressing of all time, but in the future they will progress even faster, to the point of when we reach the technological singularity or whatever its called (the point in time when technology is so advanced that the solution to a technological problem is conceived as fast as the problem itself is, or something like that). Im sure whoever is alive then will be thinking what you/we are thinking now :D
I suspect the generation directly after the fall of the Roman empire wasnt quite as lucky as the one before it. Progress can go backwards, we just havent seen it for a while. Hopefully we posting here never will.
I think what youre after is the point where development overwhelms our ability to communicate the information created.
One definition of Technological singularity is the point at which electronic intelligence can improve itself without any human intervention.