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Disruptive Technologies For Next 5 Years

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gazing-into-the-future dept.

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."

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  1. One more by Wolfier · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Slashdotting (tm) 2.

    The original Sladotting, while disrupts the service of a web site with a 60% success rate, often fails to disrupt larger, more powerful sites, like Google, for example.

    Not for a new generation of this technology - based on real-time analysis of how much bandwidth a web server has, Slashdotting 2 will apply an adaptive function the clicks to a site. For example, for a site as powerful as Google, the function will likely be 50^x.

    "Undoubtedly," says user #534452, "This new generation of technology will take the Slashdotting experience to a completely new level. We're all very exited".

    "Better, Stronger, Slower! We can't wait for it!" says another user.

    Sites with high bandwidths such as New York Times, Google, and Yahoo declined to comment.