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Disruptive Technologies For Next 5 Years
prostoalex writes "America's Network magazine, the publication serving to telecom industry, takes a look at the disruptive technologies over the next five years. Disruptive, naturally, for telecom industry. Virtual keyboards, DWDM, broadband connections using powerlines, wearable computers, free-space optics, low-power devices, UltraWideBand, voice over 802.11b and numerous others are discussed, as well as their potential for development over the next five years."
as a disruptive technology.
Do they talk about cable infrastructure did anyone catch?
Forthcoming improvements to cable technology might be considered disruptive. There's stuff pretty close to market that uses 860 to 1000Mhz for up and downstream, split right down the middle. Supposedly capable of a whopping 100Mbps. Problem is that the bulk of cable plants in the country are only capable of frequencies up to 750Mhz and some of the real backwoods mom-and-pop's only something like 360Mhz.
"I can be self-referential if I want to," said Tom, swiftly.
hope that technology isn't on the list ...
Life sucks.
Sounds like something out of Back to the Future II:
Marty gets up. Behind him, a Japanese man appears on the screen. It's Marty's boss, Iko Fujitsu - aka the JITZ!
Jitz: McFly!
Jennifer jumps at this. Marty turns around to see his boss.
Marty: Oh! Fujitsu-san! Konnichi wa! (this means "Hello Mr Fujitsu" more or less)
Jitz: McFly! I was monitoring that scan you just interfaced. You are terminated!
Marty: Terminated! No, no! It wasn't my fault sir, it was Needles, Needles was behind the whole thing!
Jitz: And you co-operated!
Marty: No I didn't! It was a sting operation! I was setting him up!
Jitz: McFly, read my fax!
The words You're Fired appear on screen, and the Jitz walks away.
Marty: Please no, I can't be fired - I'm fired!
Fax machines throughout the house print off You're Fired as well. One is near Jennifer. She takes it and look at it, horrified.
Welcome to the future Gentlemen. All your Wi-Fi interfaces are belong to us. Lets hope they have better encryption by 2015.
1. 250 GB hard drives - Now you can store 10 more gigs of media! Kind of makes you take a step back and say "Whoa! that changes everything!"
2. Pentium 4 4.1 Ghz released - never before has this amount of processing power been on the desktop. Watch out of industry wide transformation.
3. Even more media buttons available on the keyboard. The extra buttons will boost media usability from yawn to wow-tastic!
4. 60x CD-R. Whereas the old 48x CD-R's were still slow, 60x CD-R will be such a vast improvement, it'll be like owning a new PC.
5. Windows XP Security Patch Q2938193857 - this patch will make your PC more secure. Watch out for complete trustworthy, open computing after this patch.
6. New $79 Palm device that has even less memory and fewer programs. This new black and white LCD device breaks yet another price barrier! This is change, baby!
For the young single person, these are perfect.
Only if the person in question is a guy, and that guy does not have a girlfriend who wants to talk his ear off every frickin night telling him about her day and all her problems that she can't solve by her own frickin self. And who wants to share the same frickin stories about her other female coworkers and what sluts they are because of the clothes they wore that day, oh - and let me tell you about those clothes in extruciating detail - other than that... I'd guess I agree.
...the virtual keyboard...projected using infrared light. Now that's so usefull; a keyboard you can't see!
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?