Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Future Thoughts and counting sheep

When I'm 90, there will be no more printed newspapers. The internet will have stolen all of the advertising dollars. For news, people will have the internet and the self updating DVR feature on their televisions for local and world news from a variety of different sources. Television advertising will be based on product placement, and on some stations it will also appear as a crawl on the bottom of the screen all the time, to combat this new DVR function. Advanced DVR systems will be able to zoom into the program, cropping the crawl away. The crawl will likely not just happen through the bottom of the screen.
When I'm 90, we will know as much about the human brain as we do the heart. Replacement limbs and other brain controlled functions will be connected to the nerves in the brain, negating complete disability. This will change the way we view disability and the concept of handicapped.
When I'm 90, the typewriter and keyboard will be considered old fassioned. There will be two primary methods of inputting information we used to type- using a lingual interperiting machine, and using a synapse interperiting machine. The lingual interperiter will record clearly dictated words and have a number of shift keys for special commands (a shift key for letter/number mode and others for more advanced parameters). The synapse interperiting machine will attach to the head and recognise intentions based on brain waves. This will primarily be used to spell (letters will be thought), but some more advanced machines will be in development that can recognise most words of a language.

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