Day 4: The Future of Computing

[malo2]

Can you imagine what a multi user game of a StarCraft game would be like in 10 years? Get 5 friends together at someoneÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s house, go over the map and strategize, then play the game (with photorealistic graphics) against another team as you each sit around the table flying through menus and selecting different units, essentially five Generals working as one. This leads into my final point. Gaming.

can you imagine how generals in war will be planning their tactics once this comes into the battlefield???

 

 

 

anyway, this is a great topic, and lot's to learn here, and to think moores law will wear off way back in 2020? considering how fast our technolodgy is advancing thats an incredibly long time! In 10 years technology will be advancing a hundred times faster than today! and we will have another 3 years before it will wear off? This future is far more unpredictable than anyone can imagine.

 

 

 

The only thing I'm afraid of is the incredibly realistic mmo's, today kids are becoming obsessed with games such as runescape and wow, in the future we will just make a whole new world for ourselves, and there will no longer be a need for reality, these kids will never want to leave.

[Nadril]

I suppose to extend to my earlier post, a discussion about AI might be relevant.

 

 

 

Depending who you believe, since reasoning has been argued to be non-algorithmic (the basis of modern computers) then we still might be a long away from true AI until we invent a new science of consciousness.

 

 

 

I think that we are a bit aways from truly realistic AI. With the way current programing works there always has to be something that triggers another action. If an enemy in a game see's you running at him he might hide behind cover. Likewise if you're hiding he might try and sneak on out, ect. Its all based off of a series of if's and the actual AI doesn't really "think".

[trapical]

I agree, I think true AI is at least a hundred years off. We will see tourist trips to Mars colonies, immersive gaming, and probably even fusion power before we see AI

[baron8000]

^ but do we want AI? I like my PCs to do what I tell them, not think for themselves personally and whilst I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist creating another sentient being on a similar level to our own could be iffy - Skynet anyone?

 

 

 

All the rest of the stuff rocked though, and its great how we will live to see it.

[blade995]

The OLED is the coolest out of the bunch. :D I want one as soon as they are being sold in screens bigger than 40"

 

 

 

Keep in mind on the Crytek engine is that those screenshots are pre-rendered and not real time so the game will not look that real. Granted it's going to have the best graphics around but wer'e not yet there that we can't tell the difference from reality and gaming.

[sephiroth_king]

I liked the post, really I did...

 

 

 

But this is eventually going to lead to brainwash and corruption. Like in Farenheight 451, with Interactive T.V.'s. Or iRobot with AI.

 

 

 

Eventually, America, will become corrupt. Badly. Not Japan, because they know when enough is enough is in video games. And for other countries, I can't predict. But America might fall in the future because of this.

 

 

 

We are the country with the most lazy and fat kids who sit around and play video games all day, after all. So if this were to come true (And soon after Virtual Reality) that generation will signal the end. And that's why video games are bad nowadays: It corrupts if you don't have control and have to play it.

 

 

 

I have some examples of corruption, my corrupted friends.

 

 

 

My friend, for instance, a bit overweight, and is obsessed with the Wii. Some days, he'll fake being sick to play it. And he talks about it all of the time. I know it's fun, I have one, but take a break and go back to reality! My point: Video games corrupt. Extreme interaction and believable graphics will see the end.

 

 

 

So after corruption becomes even more lazy and overweight people. I truly have no problem with overweight people, because most of my family is, but it'll be crossing the line when people are so big they can't leave their house. It will be sad. But it's what video games can do if they look real. Another example of this would be one of my best friends. His parent took him out of school for internet school because they say he's to weak to lift a rolling backback. My thought: He helps me lift 70 pounds of steel beams from my cellar to outside! And soon after that he'll say, faster than you say "Hi" to someone, "Hey lets go inside and play video games!"

 

 

 

He's a perfect example of corrupt because when he's not hanging around with anyone (80% chance of this) he's playing Wii, PS3 & 2, and X-Box 360. All day and night. The sad part of it is, he's becoming drastically overweight over time.

 

 

 

My last example would be my best friend of all time. This one won't be long. We go outside, run for a couple of seconds, then suddenly: "My chest hurts! I'm going back inside." And so he does. He takes a bunch of snacks, despite his heart problem (No this is not why he is tired, this bull [cabbage] because he comes up with the hurt chest thing) and busts out the video games. And I'm not sure eating junk is good for a heart problem. So this is another great example. He no longer gets exercise, he plays video games constantly. I feel terrible because he's not going to live long if he lives his life like this.

 

 

 

So that's my thinking. I'm looking forward to this new stuff, I just hope the overweight American kids learn self control and shape up.

[Flametrooper]

Treadmill-powered generators necessary to power consoles. Boom, fatties can't play video games any more.

 

:P

[trapical]

That a very good point sephiroth, and it will affect people around the world. It will be interesting to see how society copes with these problems, and its hard to predict a solution since technically the technology were talking about isn't even in development at this time, yet we know it will come.

[sephiroth_king]

Treadmill-powered generators necessary to power consoles. Boom, fatties can't play video games any more.

 

:P

 

 

 

Haha, that completly discredits my theory. Well, I've got nothing. :XD:

[1_man_army]

 

2) Electronic Newspaper

 

Wait, did he just said TVs on clothing and newspaper? Lol, what a jokeÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ or is it? Another property of these screens is that they are flexible. Very flexible actually, they are as light and flexible as a piece of paper. Seen here is a OLED screen being bent past 90 degrees with no loss in imagine quality or damage to the screen. Remember that these screens are tremendously efficient and can thus run for days on a single flashlight battery. A newspaper of 2017 might look just like this, the product you see actually already excises. ItÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s a laptop :D. The screen just rolls out and can be made rigid if you prefer, the processor and battery is in the tube on the left. The entire computer can be rolled up and put in your back pocket like a magazine. Expect electronic newspapers to become popular in about 8 years. They are actually coming out a lot earlier but I expect 5 to 6 years for them to catch on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny, I touched on this in one of my uni essays a while back (I'm doing a degree in Publishing). It's the way of the future but I'm personally unsure about the time it will take for these to become popular.

 

 

 

The technology is coming on leaps and bounds but theres alot of factors that might limit the speed of it's adoption - currently the cost of implementing the system is high which makes it a considerable risk for publishers, the quality of display needs to get better (although this is improving virtually daily) and customers at the moment are unwilling to change from reading off of traditional paper but this is likely to lessen gradually every year.

 

 

 

Eventually though I can see this becoming more and more popular - once it becomes cost effective (which it will in time) it will save publishers so much money in terms of paper, ink, distribution costs etc. It just depends on the willingness of the market to adopt thne technology

[Rebdragon]

(--).

 

I don't think people becoming overweight is exactly the biggest problem we can think about with the advance of technology (especially since we're already dealing with that exact problem). GITS anyone?

[ilya]

Man that post was great it made me think so much about our lifes. Imagine a "game" where everything is real? You can sence, feel and smell things just like in real life, except there'd be twitches like no hunger or no pain or even no wars, basically perfect life. That atually'd be better then real life. Building for people to play this game, literally thousands of computers, that would replace real life. wow. The only bad side is real life, people will die from playing too long or even not have sex because u can do it in game and feel the same thing, talking about the end of human race. wow. sorry for the long read, and this game (if it will ever excist0 is a long long way off so nufin to worry about

[sephiroth_king]

(--).

 

I don't think people becoming overweight is exactly the biggest problem we can think about with the advance of technology (especially since we're already dealing with that exact problem). GITS anyone?

 

 

 

But it truly is. It will be worse in the future. Way worse. And it should be our priority to eliminate it, since more kids are getting fatter and fatter from eating too much junk or simply getting their brain rotted in front of the t.v. and video game. Otherwise internet school will be the latest trend. :-w

[Asphodel]

Wow..

 

 

 

This stuff + rs = free pixels irl pls...well..basically irl :P

 

 

 

New meaning to pking! Imagine clan wars ^_^

[Guthix_Girl]

wow.. im really fascinated by surface computing.. i mean that sounds absolutely awesome. hands on technology is my kind of technology

[Pkmastachaos]

That's insane. I can't wait to see what life is going to be like 5-10 years from now, let alone fifty or more!

 

 

 

Really, we have to get more imaginative cartoonists to come up with more 'crazy' idea's. The fact we have nearly everything the Jetson's do is scary. (I believe we're just missing the hover-cars, but I'll be damned, there's probably at least a few prototypes around)

 

 

 

:anxious: :shock: =P~ =D> :mrgreen: :ohnoes: :-k

 

 

 

So many feelings, so little smileys.

 

 

 

A great read nonetheless, i look forward to the next six!

[ortiz9471]

Grrr I want that OLED screen. A month ago my laptop was stored in an akward position and bent the LCD screen, it immediately was ruined

 

Now I just hook it up to an extrernal monitor and it's fine, but a pain in the butt. The screen looks like a glass door after being hit by a baseball. There is one small focal point of pressure, then many many cracks coming out in all directions covering the entire screen.

[trapical]

Grrr I want that OLED screen. A month ago my laptop was stored in an akward position and bent the LCD screen, it immediately was ruined

 

Now I just hook it up to an extrernal monitor and it's fine, but a pain in the butt. The screen looks like a glass door after being hit by a baseball. There is one small focal point of pressure, then many many cracks coming out in all directions covering the entire screen.

 

Yikes. My room-mate had a tiny 80 page paperback book fall out of his hands and onto the back of his Toshiba laptop. The laptop was closed and off, and the next morning he turned it on and the entire thing look like exactly how you said, like it was hit by a baseball.

 

 

 

Cost him $350

[hellbellz]

Holy crap.

 

 

 

Thanks for the information. Great read :).

[look_its_rob]

geeeeze i wish i could own one of those tables seems amazingly sick

 

 

 

 

 

and all you people taking about AI should watch that movie with will smith. i robots i think? its semi ok but will smith is in it so its great.

 

 

 

 

 

btw great read and im waiting for day 5 impatiantly=X i might have to read it on my psp in bed

[trapical]

geeeeze i wish i could own one of those tables seems amazingly sick

 

 

 

 

 

and all you people taking about AI should watch that movie with will smith. i robots i think? its semi ok but will smith is in it so its great.

 

 

 

 

 

btw great read and im waiting for day 5 impatiantly=X i might have to read it on my psp in bed

 

Heh, heh... not advised...

 

This next one is a doozy, the longest one yet

 

 

 

I might actually recommend waiting until tomorrow to read it unless you feel like staying up for a while so you can finish reading it. :

 

 

 

By the way, you guys have no idea how weird it feels to be me around 11:59pm, knowing there are people out there just waiting for me to hit that "submit" button. :uhh:

[darkpoet837]

That stuff is not even the newest stuff. I read an article in a science magazine about exploring the newest computer frontier: Our vary own DNA. The fact is, our DNA is the perfect model of a computer; it is extremely small, holds more information than the most advanced silicone chip (our entire genome is stored in a chain smaller than the cells in our body). With biotech computers verging on the future, Moore's law might not be finished marking our future with new techs. Biotech processors could hold many times more than any normal computer, and do everything much faster than any computer out on the market at the moment.

 

 

 

Here is a link for more info.

[look_its_rob]

lol to late

 

i am on my psp now... waiting so hurry!...please=)

[trapical]

lol to late

 

i am on my psp now... waiting so hurry!...please=)

 

I can't hurry, it's the clock! And dude, it's going to be an hour and 2 minutes from now, you sure you want to wait? Lol.

[darkpoet837]

What time zone do u live in btw....