"Next to Technology"
People can discover and create things almost everyday just like technology. As we can see technology today are fast changing. As the time goes by the previous discoveries and creations of a machine or a gadgets can improvise easily by people and there are a lot to exist and follow. Just like buying a memory stick when you buy a stick which contains 1GB memory, after a few days when you come again in a store you can pick up a memory device higher than what you bought the other days which cost the same. Just like how technologies change today. Its existence is emerging and its development is rapidly changing. Scientist and people who can introduce machines with their own creation can easily think of something more of what today being introduced. And without any doubt people really tend to follow and fond of technology. People are into what’s new and what’s not. Every time there are new gadgets introduced, people want for that and searching more.
As we can simply distinguish from the existence of internet in early 20s and the computer after that many devices are introduce and came in. We can observe that technology in actual fact are becoming higher and fast changing. The commoditization of technology is almost every where, from the appliances in the house, through infrastructure, communication, transportation, engineering, science, software and hardware facilities. And as we can notice we can easily predict that the innovation of technology will come to change the society and it will go to take place in different factor in the society.
What are next to the technology being introduced today? Well, being an individual living in this society we are aware of the things that is happening around us and we can see make out a glimpse that we can see more when we are talking about technology that inventor can show more or will show more what we have right now. And some predictions came into mind, that there are a lot to happen and exist in the next coming years. From a page, “Future Technology: Our Predictions for 2009” (Claudine Beaumont), several predictions came out that will be held in the near future. And these are the following:
An end to wires
While technology isn't sufficiently advanced quite yet to do away with the plug, 2009 will see a growing number of wireless devices hit the shops. And we don't just mean wireless in terms of internet connectivity – although we do expect more gadgets, including digital cameras, to be Wi-Fi enabled. We mean wire-less – look out for televisions that use "connectivity hubs" for hooking up all your games consoles and DVD players rather than having a tangle of cables emerging from the television itself. Several manufacturers touted these ostensibly wire-less solutions towards the end of last year, and 2009 should see the technology becoming cheaper and more widespread.
It will mean that when you wall-mount your super-thin 50in plasma screen television, the only protrusion will be a power plug – you can hide all your other peripherals in a nearby cupboard, connected to a hub, and the TV will be able to communicate with them wirelessly. This will be crucial if internet piped straight to the television is going to become a reality.
Meaningful convergence
For several years now, manufacturers have been turning out clever, multi-tasking gadgets that can fulfil more than one role, such as cameras that double as camcorders, sat navs that can also be used for in-car audio, and mobile phones you can store your music collection on and use to surf the net. This year, that convergence will become more meaningful – the technology will be sufficiently well developed that people will actively choose to use their gadgets for more than one task. At the tail end of 2008, we saw the first mobile phones with eight-megapixel digital cameras; this year, expect to see that technology improved upon, so that issues with slow shutter speeds and clunky focus start to be resolved, and consumers will perhaps start to consider buying phones with great cameras built in, rather than opting for a stand-alone digital snapper. It looks like Nokia's new touch-screen N97 handset could be an early pace setter, with a sophisticated camera and up to 48GB of storage for music and photos - that puts the capacity of Apple's iPhone and iPod touch range in the shade.
Better touch-screens
Speaking of touch-screens...an analyst remarked at the beginning of last year that 2008 would be "the year of the cr*p touch-screen", as countless manufacturers jumped on Apple's bandwagon. Well, this year should see touch-screen technology reach a point of maturation, with touch-screen interfaces on even the cheapest gadgets becoming more responsive, intuitive and stable. That's going to be crucial, because smartphones will once again rule the roost this year – we'll see more handsets running Google's Android operating system, and will be interesting to see where Apple goes with its iPhone range. Watch out, too, for an increased use of gesture-recognition technology on many devices, similar to that used by the Nintendo Wii to detect the movement of its motion-sensitive controllers, and the iPhone's accelerometer, which can detect which way it's being held.
Video streaming
In 2008, we saw the first signs of a move towards internet-based television and video streaming services. The Apple TV allowed consumers to download television programmes and movies to the set-top box like device, while Microsoft launched video downloads for its Xbox 360 games console, and even LoveFilm allowed customers to watch films via the web. The BBC iPlayer, which is just over a year old, has probably done the most for the public's perception of web-based video streaming, encouraging even those suspicious of new technology to experiments with its services. This year, an increasing number of internet-enabled set-top boxes and televisions will come to market, letting consumers hook them up directly to the web, so, in time, there will be no need to go via a computer, as web content will be piped straight to the TV.
Higher definition
According to industry analysts Screen Digest, 41 per cent of British households own at least one HD-ready television. But just under 10 per cent are connected to a high-definition television service, such as Freesat or Sky HD. Expect that disparity to narrow in 2009, as more and more broadcasters and services start to really take advantage of the high levels of "high-definition preparedness" in the UK with products that leverage this untapped potential. Anthony Rose, the head of the BBC's iPlayer service, has hinted that some BBC shows available on the catch-up TV platform might be streamed in high-definition in the coming year. Freeview is also expected to go high-def in 2009, although viewers will need to buy a new HD-ready Freeview set-top box to receive the service. And the advent of faster broadband connections, such as Virgin Media's 50 megabits per second service, and potentially BT's 100 megabits per second service, also means that high-definition movie downloads are likely to become more commonplace, as an infrastructure builds up around the service to support its timely delivery.
Social networking
If 2007 was the year of Facebook, then 2008 was surely the year of Twitter, the microblogging service that prompts users to write messages in 140 characters or fewer. Once the preserve of nerds, Twitter soon broke into the mainstream, and is used by everyone from President-Elect Barack Obama to national wit Stephen Fry and even troubled pop star Britney Spears. But will 2009 hold for social-networking? Well, from a purely business perspective, sites such as Facebook and Twitter are going to have to come up with a way of making money. It's unlikely they will start users directly for what, up until now, has been a free service, so instead brace yourself for targeted advertising popping up on your favourite social networking websites. What users will be hoping for this year is great inter-operability between social-networking platforms. Many web users have Facebook, MySpace and Twitter profiles, and use services such as FriendFeed to aggregate their social feeds and pull everything into a single, usable interface. Expect projects such as Facebook Connect, which allows users to share their information with third-party member websites, and OpenSocial, which allows applications to work across multiple platforms, to really come into their own. People don't want to rebuild their social networks on every new site they join; they want this data to be portable and work on any system.
Gathering clouds
Similarly "cloud computing", the idea of software and services that live on servers "in the cloud" rather than individual computer hard drives, is going to be a mainstay of 2009. Companies such as Microsoft have already announced plans to put more of their products "in the cloud", and we could even see the likes of Apple ramping up its cloud-based services through the Mobile Me portal. Google is perhaps best-placed to make cloud computing its own, as it already offers myriad services online. The growing number of portable, internet-enabled gadgets that can connect effortlessly to the web will also help to drive the cloud revolution, with people increasingly expecting to access their crucial data, software and information wherever they are.
Since technology becoming to change some of the standard application of things, today human’s community is becoming evolving into a virtual community or a virtual world. Which interaction can be done virtually. Just like the existence of Second Life Campuses which students can go to school without personally interacting with their professors and classmates they interact through them virtually with their own avatar. In what the traditional classroom or campus can offer may be in virtual campuses also. And the existence of virtual came into several community and purposes. Like they used it for training of employees or soldiers, for the employee, training them in this way will help reduce the cost and reduce the use of resources in the company. “In America it is being used as an instrument or their way to recruit potential soldiers, while companies like Forterra Systems are working with military groups to develop training simulations.” Also, “Virtual worlds can serve as forums for political expression and debate. While real-world political issues can crop up in gaming, social, and educational worlds, there are a few cases in which completely separate virtual worlds have been built for the purpose of political debate or even experiments in various types of self-governing online communities. A great example of a virtual world with a political focus is AgoraXchange.” And the most common purpose of the virtual world is socializing with other people by several chat rooms or through while you are in a game.
The product of technology today are very smart, easily get you in a work faster, it’s becoming smaller and very useful and for that people really like and cannot live with out any interaction to technology in a day. I think that people are ready to embrace and adopt the changes shown nowadays and someday the fully change of the world where technology and people maybe possible. The society is really into it right now. There are maybe some fear running around in some corner an in an individual, I admit it that I feel that way specially when time comes that technology and human are at same status in the environment but maybe as what we scrutinize to the situation between the continuous innovation of technology and every human they have a positive outlook of it. People really benefit from it, technology given a lot satisfaction to the people who make use of it. It entertain them from all the gadgets given and introduce, technology help broaden the horizon of business through e-commerce, technology help to expand the one’s knowledge through existing computing. We are really fond of technology but if we don’t want to fully embrace it technology can’t force us to do so. It is our own will to acknowledge and take through it. Anyway, we have the option to use it wisely and properly if we are concern to the society we are living.
References:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/4031097/Future-technology-our-predictions-for-2009.html
http://www.futureforall.org/vr/virtualreality.htm
http://news.cnet.com/Riding-the-next-technology-wave/2008-7351_3-5085423.html\
http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/
People can discover and create things almost everyday just like technology. As we can see technology today are fast changing. As the time goes by the previous discoveries and creations of a machine or a gadgets can improvise easily by people and there are a lot to exist and follow. Just like buying a memory stick when you buy a stick which contains 1GB memory, after a few days when you come again in a store you can pick up a memory device higher than what you bought the other days which cost the same. Just like how technologies change today. Its existence is emerging and its development is rapidly changing. Scientist and people who can introduce machines with their own creation can easily think of something more of what today being introduced. And without any doubt people really tend to follow and fond of technology. People are into what’s new and what’s not. Every time there are new gadgets introduced, people want for that and searching more.
As we can simply distinguish from the existence of internet in early 20s and the computer after that many devices are introduce and came in. We can observe that technology in actual fact are becoming higher and fast changing. The commoditization of technology is almost every where, from the appliances in the house, through infrastructure, communication, transportation, engineering, science, software and hardware facilities. And as we can notice we can easily predict that the innovation of technology will come to change the society and it will go to take place in different factor in the society.
What are next to the technology being introduced today? Well, being an individual living in this society we are aware of the things that is happening around us and we can see make out a glimpse that we can see more when we are talking about technology that inventor can show more or will show more what we have right now. And some predictions came into mind, that there are a lot to happen and exist in the next coming years. From a page, “Future Technology: Our Predictions for 2009” (Claudine Beaumont), several predictions came out that will be held in the near future. And these are the following:
An end to wires
While technology isn't sufficiently advanced quite yet to do away with the plug, 2009 will see a growing number of wireless devices hit the shops. And we don't just mean wireless in terms of internet connectivity – although we do expect more gadgets, including digital cameras, to be Wi-Fi enabled. We mean wire-less – look out for televisions that use "connectivity hubs" for hooking up all your games consoles and DVD players rather than having a tangle of cables emerging from the television itself. Several manufacturers touted these ostensibly wire-less solutions towards the end of last year, and 2009 should see the technology becoming cheaper and more widespread.
It will mean that when you wall-mount your super-thin 50in plasma screen television, the only protrusion will be a power plug – you can hide all your other peripherals in a nearby cupboard, connected to a hub, and the TV will be able to communicate with them wirelessly. This will be crucial if internet piped straight to the television is going to become a reality.
Meaningful convergence
For several years now, manufacturers have been turning out clever, multi-tasking gadgets that can fulfil more than one role, such as cameras that double as camcorders, sat navs that can also be used for in-car audio, and mobile phones you can store your music collection on and use to surf the net. This year, that convergence will become more meaningful – the technology will be sufficiently well developed that people will actively choose to use their gadgets for more than one task. At the tail end of 2008, we saw the first mobile phones with eight-megapixel digital cameras; this year, expect to see that technology improved upon, so that issues with slow shutter speeds and clunky focus start to be resolved, and consumers will perhaps start to consider buying phones with great cameras built in, rather than opting for a stand-alone digital snapper. It looks like Nokia's new touch-screen N97 handset could be an early pace setter, with a sophisticated camera and up to 48GB of storage for music and photos - that puts the capacity of Apple's iPhone and iPod touch range in the shade.
Better touch-screens
Speaking of touch-screens...an analyst remarked at the beginning of last year that 2008 would be "the year of the cr*p touch-screen", as countless manufacturers jumped on Apple's bandwagon. Well, this year should see touch-screen technology reach a point of maturation, with touch-screen interfaces on even the cheapest gadgets becoming more responsive, intuitive and stable. That's going to be crucial, because smartphones will once again rule the roost this year – we'll see more handsets running Google's Android operating system, and will be interesting to see where Apple goes with its iPhone range. Watch out, too, for an increased use of gesture-recognition technology on many devices, similar to that used by the Nintendo Wii to detect the movement of its motion-sensitive controllers, and the iPhone's accelerometer, which can detect which way it's being held.
Video streaming
In 2008, we saw the first signs of a move towards internet-based television and video streaming services. The Apple TV allowed consumers to download television programmes and movies to the set-top box like device, while Microsoft launched video downloads for its Xbox 360 games console, and even LoveFilm allowed customers to watch films via the web. The BBC iPlayer, which is just over a year old, has probably done the most for the public's perception of web-based video streaming, encouraging even those suspicious of new technology to experiments with its services. This year, an increasing number of internet-enabled set-top boxes and televisions will come to market, letting consumers hook them up directly to the web, so, in time, there will be no need to go via a computer, as web content will be piped straight to the TV.
Higher definition
According to industry analysts Screen Digest, 41 per cent of British households own at least one HD-ready television. But just under 10 per cent are connected to a high-definition television service, such as Freesat or Sky HD. Expect that disparity to narrow in 2009, as more and more broadcasters and services start to really take advantage of the high levels of "high-definition preparedness" in the UK with products that leverage this untapped potential. Anthony Rose, the head of the BBC's iPlayer service, has hinted that some BBC shows available on the catch-up TV platform might be streamed in high-definition in the coming year. Freeview is also expected to go high-def in 2009, although viewers will need to buy a new HD-ready Freeview set-top box to receive the service. And the advent of faster broadband connections, such as Virgin Media's 50 megabits per second service, and potentially BT's 100 megabits per second service, also means that high-definition movie downloads are likely to become more commonplace, as an infrastructure builds up around the service to support its timely delivery.
Social networking
If 2007 was the year of Facebook, then 2008 was surely the year of Twitter, the microblogging service that prompts users to write messages in 140 characters or fewer. Once the preserve of nerds, Twitter soon broke into the mainstream, and is used by everyone from President-Elect Barack Obama to national wit Stephen Fry and even troubled pop star Britney Spears. But will 2009 hold for social-networking? Well, from a purely business perspective, sites such as Facebook and Twitter are going to have to come up with a way of making money. It's unlikely they will start users directly for what, up until now, has been a free service, so instead brace yourself for targeted advertising popping up on your favourite social networking websites. What users will be hoping for this year is great inter-operability between social-networking platforms. Many web users have Facebook, MySpace and Twitter profiles, and use services such as FriendFeed to aggregate their social feeds and pull everything into a single, usable interface. Expect projects such as Facebook Connect, which allows users to share their information with third-party member websites, and OpenSocial, which allows applications to work across multiple platforms, to really come into their own. People don't want to rebuild their social networks on every new site they join; they want this data to be portable and work on any system.
Gathering clouds
Similarly "cloud computing", the idea of software and services that live on servers "in the cloud" rather than individual computer hard drives, is going to be a mainstay of 2009. Companies such as Microsoft have already announced plans to put more of their products "in the cloud", and we could even see the likes of Apple ramping up its cloud-based services through the Mobile Me portal. Google is perhaps best-placed to make cloud computing its own, as it already offers myriad services online. The growing number of portable, internet-enabled gadgets that can connect effortlessly to the web will also help to drive the cloud revolution, with people increasingly expecting to access their crucial data, software and information wherever they are.
Since technology becoming to change some of the standard application of things, today human’s community is becoming evolving into a virtual community or a virtual world. Which interaction can be done virtually. Just like the existence of Second Life Campuses which students can go to school without personally interacting with their professors and classmates they interact through them virtually with their own avatar. In what the traditional classroom or campus can offer may be in virtual campuses also. And the existence of virtual came into several community and purposes. Like they used it for training of employees or soldiers, for the employee, training them in this way will help reduce the cost and reduce the use of resources in the company. “In America it is being used as an instrument or their way to recruit potential soldiers, while companies like Forterra Systems are working with military groups to develop training simulations.” Also, “Virtual worlds can serve as forums for political expression and debate. While real-world political issues can crop up in gaming, social, and educational worlds, there are a few cases in which completely separate virtual worlds have been built for the purpose of political debate or even experiments in various types of self-governing online communities. A great example of a virtual world with a political focus is AgoraXchange.” And the most common purpose of the virtual world is socializing with other people by several chat rooms or through while you are in a game.
The product of technology today are very smart, easily get you in a work faster, it’s becoming smaller and very useful and for that people really like and cannot live with out any interaction to technology in a day. I think that people are ready to embrace and adopt the changes shown nowadays and someday the fully change of the world where technology and people maybe possible. The society is really into it right now. There are maybe some fear running around in some corner an in an individual, I admit it that I feel that way specially when time comes that technology and human are at same status in the environment but maybe as what we scrutinize to the situation between the continuous innovation of technology and every human they have a positive outlook of it. People really benefit from it, technology given a lot satisfaction to the people who make use of it. It entertain them from all the gadgets given and introduce, technology help broaden the horizon of business through e-commerce, technology help to expand the one’s knowledge through existing computing. We are really fond of technology but if we don’t want to fully embrace it technology can’t force us to do so. It is our own will to acknowledge and take through it. Anyway, we have the option to use it wisely and properly if we are concern to the society we are living.
References:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/4031097/Future-technology-our-predictions-for-2009.html
http://www.futureforall.org/vr/virtualreality.htm
http://news.cnet.com/Riding-the-next-technology-wave/2008-7351_3-5085423.html\
http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/
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whatever is next, it requires great preparation...
What ever will come, we should always be armed.
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