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The Future of the P.C.

Posted by michael on from the chinese-everything dept.

scarcrowman writes "This is an interesting article on the projected future of what we call the 'P.C.' It is becoming more 'Personal' than ever."

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  1. Life Recorder by kryogen1x · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I recently spoke to Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid, who noted, with appropriate awe, that a terabyte of storage now costs about $500. That's enough space to hold every conversation you will ever have from birth to death, or 2000 photographs taken every day of that life, Rashid said. He admitted nobody really knows what such newfound capabilities really mean. Get ready for the life recorder, probably coming soon. It would contain every event from your entire life--probably in video if you want it.

    Almost like the Truman Show. But when he says "every conversation," does he mean in audio or in text?

    I guess this will be good for biographies. But who would want their life recorded?

  2. Text vs. Audio by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With ideal compression, they are technically the same. Add some metadata that explains tone of voice, pacing, rhythum, cadence... 100 megs worth of samples of your voice. Why record the actual waveforms when they could be synthesized with a decent level of fidelity to the original?

    I guess the only limiting factor at all, would be whether cpu performance increases more than storage in the coming years.