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10 Tech Concepts You Should Know for 2007
mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new list of wide-ranging technology terms it claims will be big in 2007. From PRAM to BAN and SmartPills to data clouds, it's a pretty nice summary of upcoming and in-the-works trends across the board (with a podcast embedded). Though these aren't technologies they expect to be in everyone's homes next year, they're sure this tech will be in the headlines. How do their predictions from a year ago stack up now?" From the article: "Printed Solar Panels - Tomorrow's solar panels may not need to be produced in high-vacuum conditions in billion-dollar fabrication facilities. If California-based Nanosolar has its way, plants will use a nanostructured "ink" to form semiconductors, which would be printed on flexible sheets. Nanosolar is currently building a plant that will print 430 megawatts' worth of solar cells annually--more than triple the current solar output of the entire country."
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I wish the real world would really work out like that.
Last night I watched the movie "Who killed the electric car?",
(Everyone should see it, along with and "Hacking Democracy", "Fahrenheit 911" and "An Inconvenient Truth").
In that movie, Texaco bought out the NiMH Electric car battery technology and killed it.
Then GM and Toyota took back all the EV1's and crushed them.
I wonder how long it will be before some Oil company buys up NanoSolar and kills them too.
The same thing happen over and over. It's the same group of Big Oil, Bush and friends, that are holding us back from progress in almost the same way
MA Bell had done 20 years ago before it's breakup. Most of you don't realize that the Internet, Unix and Video Confrencing was held back for decades by MA Bell.
It's not technology that moves us forward but the decisions of the Rich and Powerful to allow us to move foward.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
10. tasers
9. rubber hose to the feet
8. strapped to a chair being forced to watch "American Idol" ala A Clockwork Orange
7. millimeter wave device
6. extremely bright lights
5. sensory deprivation
4. At full volume playing Aqua's "Barbie Girl" over and over and over and over again.
3. IRS audit
2. waterboarding
and the number one tortue tech concept for 2007:
1. the amazing electrical testicle machine
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
The passport issue IS important and HIGH on the list. The guys writing that article had their heads up their asses on that one.
After January 26, 2007, *EVERYONE* travelling into U.S. by air (INCLUDING AMERICANS travelling out of the U.S. but who want to come back home by air) MUST carry a passport. Even on flights from Canada and Mexico. All non-Americans, non-Canadians, and non-Mexicans arriving who want to enter by ground or water transportation must carry a passport. If you are leaving the country before the 27th and are coming back on or after, you better have a passport.
According to current plans, in a year or so *everyone* trying to enter the U.S. *must carry a passport*, for ALL forms of transportation (ground, water, air). Even on day trips to Canada and Mexico.
Canada is America's largest trading partner with more than a billion dollars in goods and services crossing the border every day. Mexico is close behind. To put it into perspective, when the dock workers strike on the west coast went for two weeks several years ago, they were ordered back to work by Bush as they were impacting the national economic system. The daily goods they transport to and from the docks were not as much as crosses the Canadian border every day... never mind both the Canadian and Mexican borders. Now the U.S. government wants everyone travelling across those borders to carry a passport (I have one so I don't care). But if someone hacks the system that controls those chips... one day's impact can cause billions of dollars worth of damage (including Mexican and Canadian borders and air travellers, etc.).
A lot of people say that RFID passports are bad. The potential impact is probably greater than the guys writing the article think.