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How will the internet look in 2020?

June 7th 2010 03:24

In a recent survey of American computer boffins in which they were asked the above question, the consensus answer was, “There is no way we can know.”

Australian boffins were a little more prepared to stick their necks out. A survey of 400 experts in Melbourne threw up a popular forecast that by 2020 our dependence on the web will increase, and the average home will be connected to the internet in almost every way possible.

However, when the same 400 boffins were asked what they thought would be the hot gadgets, applications and technology tools in 2020, they pretty much came up with the same answer the Americans gave earlier: “Who knows?”

As American IT consultant Charlie Martin, said, ``If they could be anticipated now, they'd be the hot gadgets today''.

It’s a brave new world out there in tomorrowland. But a mysterious one.

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Doctor, doctor on the wall

March 30th 2010 10:13

VYOOS EDITORIAL
In 10 years, according to a British forecast, some important functions of your family doctor will be taken over by your bathroom mirror.

As you clean your teeth each morning, your mirror will check your vitals: pulse, blood, pressure, weight, nutrition and other balances, etc. It will then display the results as text on the mirror surface.

If there is any serious abnormality, the information will be automatically emailed to your GP.

The prediction is part of a display in the UK entitled the Ideal Home of the Future. It is presented by Virgin Media, which was Britain’s first broadband provider. Not surprisingly, the powers of the mirror of the future are broadband-based, meaning your mirror is in fact just an extension of your computer.

But then, in 10 years, says Virgin Media, pretty much everything in the home could be an extension of your computer. Your refrigerator will search and find recipes for you, your bedhead will sense when you wake and instantly provide the latest news, your cat's microchip will have GPS so you always know where your moggy is, and the glass panels of your shower cubicle will display moving images of your choice.

It's obvious where all this is leading — a broadband link and miniature camera in your toothbrush head. Every time you brush, your dentist gets an mpeg update. Every time you don't brush, your dentist gets a text alert, prompting an automated return email calling you a naughty boy.
dailymail.co.uk; image: petitinvention

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Today's news: Google smacks China

January 13th 2010 01:42

Google has accused China of hacking into Gmail accounts, and has threatened to walk out of China as a consequence.

Google has just issued a statement saying it has uncovered a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China". The email accounts targeted were those of human rights activists.

Google did not name the Chinese government, but it didn't have to. And it did say it was "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires.

China may be the world's population leader and a global economic super-heavyweight, but this is a fight which it may want to back away from. Civil unrest is never far from the surface in any community ruled by a totalitarian regime, and the humiliation of a Google walk-out, and the focus it would bring on Beijing's heavy-handed approach to many social issues, will have it considering its response to Google's allegations very carefully.

Google is itself a super-heavyweight in the human conscious, and it will not have understaken this course of action lightly. In announcing the end of the co-operative search engine censorship agreement, Google has come out swinging. It decided to do more than put its hand up and complain. It decided to throw a swinging, stinging counter-punch.

That means the Chinese must react — to simply accept Google's smack on the bottom would be an enormous loss of face.

Google is playing hardball on this one, and the world awaits Beijing's reaction. But none more than a billion growingly affluent and cosmopolitan Chinese citizens who have hopes for a better world.
The New York Times

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Asia, China, Politics, Technology

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Top job

January 5th 2010 22:44

There are about 24,000 windows in the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and the contract to clean them has been won by an Australian company.

The company, named Cox Gomyl, designed and built a US$7.35 million window-washing system for the Dubai megatower. It will take about three months to clean the whole building. The cleaners will rely on three things to do the job: state-of-the-art, 16-tonne cages which travel along tracks fixed to the outside of the building; personal electrolyte packs and custom-made clothing which resembles a space suit; and, for the actual cleaning of the windows, a bucket, a sponge, soap and water

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Who wants to be a solitaire?

January 4th 2010 00:11

Technology is marvellous with so many amazing things achievable nowadays. For example, just how deprived were our grandparents who lived in a time when, if a loved one died, it was not possible to turn their remains into a diamond?

Today it is. Just go to www.lifegem.com and see

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The archbishop's take on social media

August 6th 2009 23:28

Internet social networking sites which promote themselves as communities are in fact undermining community life. So are texting and emails.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: UK, Human nature, Religion, Social media, Technology

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Google announcement may be the end of Microsoft

July 8th 2009 05:05

In the beginning there was Gates, and he was good. A bit nerdy, perhaps, but good.

He built Microsoft, and it was bad. Not at first, perhaps, when it was all new and exciting. But after it became big and lots and lots of people got their fingers in the pie, Microsoft became the richest purveyor of the worst rubbish in the history of retailing

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Goodbye email, hello Google Wave

May 28th 2009 18:23

Google is as we write unveiling in San Francisco what could be the Next Big Thing in "real-time, yet organised, Internet communication".

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Do not adjust your sets

March 18th 2009 20:14

As a service to the people of Melbourne, Australia, I would like to say this: do not throw your plasma and LCD televisions in the rubbish bin.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Australia, Journalism, Technology

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iPhoney

November 20th 2008 13:25

A man discovered by his wife to be taking pictures of his genitals with his iPhone and then sending the pictures to another woman, has denied responsibility. It was all due, he said, to an "iPhone glitch".

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Why haven't cell phones killed us all?

October 18th 2008 06:38

Figures from early 2008 show that more than one billion people worldwide use cell/mobile phones. Between 60,000 and 70,000 mobile phones are sold each day in the United States. In Hong Kong and Singapore, total mobile phones in use exceeds total number of citizens.

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