The ultimate computer interface is interactive video and audio *everywhere*- every room, vehicle, and personal. Text will have limited applications and will mainly be used for precision and eggheads. So the computing GUI research, computer and pipe capacity will need to grow to reach this. Moore's law says we will reach this in a few decades. I see the stumbling block as being the interactive video GUI R&D rather than capacity.
This won't be a achieved in one smooth economic ramp, but in up and down cycles. Tech was up in the early 60s, early 80s and late 90s. It bombed in the late 70s, late 80s and appears to be diving now. But it will rise again.
Primates live 30-50 years, so it takes a long time to test this. Even a few humans are trying self-experimentation.
P.S. Is Tarzan's "Cheetah" still alive? Last time I heard in early 90s he was in late 50s in southern CA. Fur had turned white. Chimps lifespan is about 50.
Hyper-nutrition has been accelerating sexual maturity. More and more girls develop at age 9-10. Before 20th century not uncomon to not be able to make child until around 16 years old.
Video terminals were pretty rare then.
They had to wait wait until (@1975) when there were ROMS
cheap enough to hold an entire ascii character
set of 5 x 7 dots, or approximately two kilobits.
I remember a project in digital lab in the early
70s where we stobed numerals on an oscilloscope
which where store in eight byte registers.
I agree it is old news. However there have been re-interpretation of Viking/Observator with the new Surveyor pics. Old oceanic features disappear under high resolution, and new ones appear. Means more work for the eggheads.
The nice thing about a profound piece of literature is that it is open to creative new interpretations now and then. Look at the endless round of Shakespeare, Austin and Christmas fable movies. I look forward to the "millennial Dune".
I presume between the NSA monitoring programs, commercial record keeping and marketing research, the equivalent is done in the US. Its just dispersed among a number of organization takes a little more work for someone to aggregate.
Best visibility is an hour before sunrise or
after sunset. The orbit is inclined to reach over
the US and FSU, but it doesn't always go over
both every orbit. The axis of inclination precesses, so you only see it some the time. The further south you are, the more likely to get visible orbits.
Even since Alpha acquired the Rus-hab module
its been very bright. It was brighter than
anything save for the sun, moon, and Venus.
Probably it will be brighter than Venus next week.
I've seen several times, some intentionally and
some accidentally.
A retinal scanner will be the most compact portable display device when it is perfected. At ordinary power it will be the display of choice for normal vision.
I guess I'd want to re-arrange about a weeks worth of TV viewing for watching at geek-convenient times, i.e. about 20 hours. There are
occasions when I'd get interested in a TV series mid-season and wished to have access to earlier episodes.
Hardware is a brutal business, as American TV, VCR, IBM clone, and now Computer VCR makers have found out. Sell the software and content to manage the hardware. In some cases you may want to be in the hardware end for a year or two (MicroSoft plan?) to jumpstart the software.
Its like $0.25 for an hour of video tape
and $4.00 for a hour of compressed disk TV (gigabyte). The ratio has always been around 10-20x. Five years from now, move the decimal place left again for both.
So the price has to be based on other factors such as functionality and convenience. I think there are enough of these to keep Replay/TiVo promising.
What next, film, TV, stage...
Geek dramas have made the screen such as the "Pirates of Silicon Valley". What is necessary is "dramatic content". This means a conflict that builds into a climax and characters with quirks. In Pirates, the conflict was PC newcomers versus established computing and Apple vs. MicroSoft. Bill and Steve had numerous quirks. What about Linus? I guess not as dramatic.
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The ultimate computer interface is interactive video and audio *everywhere*- every room, vehicle, and personal. Text will have limited applications and will mainly be used for precision and eggheads. So the computing GUI research, computer and pipe capacity will need to grow to reach this. Moore's law says we will reach this in a few decades. I see the stumbling block as being the interactive video GUI R&D rather than capacity.
This won't be a achieved in one smooth economic ramp, but in up and down cycles. Tech was up in the early 60s, early 80s and late 90s. It bombed in the late 70s, late 80s and appears to be diving now. But it will rise again.
Primates live 30-50 years, so it takes a long time to test this. Even a few humans are trying self-experimentation.
P.S. Is Tarzan's "Cheetah" still alive? Last time I heard in early 90s he was in late 50s in southern CA. Fur had turned white. Chimps lifespan is about 50.
Hyper-nutrition has been accelerating sexual maturity. More and more girls develop at age 9-10. Before 20th century not uncomon to not be able to make child until around 16 years old.
Dec SciAm (not online) shows nanotaubes a 1/20th
the diameter of current wiring and very fast.
Video terminals were pretty rare then.
They had to wait wait until (@1975) when there were ROMS
cheap enough to hold an entire ascii character
set of 5 x 7 dots, or approximately two kilobits.
I remember a project in digital lab in the early
70s where we stobed numerals on an oscilloscope
which where store in eight byte registers.
Many college depts I know of had whole buildings
connected to a central computer. Email was
fairly widely used within a single computer.
Parkinsons, perhaps ALheimers, some mental illnesses
are due to chemical absences or imbalances.
This method might be able to help those.
The main advantage is that this method would avoid having to use fetal cells. That means less reluctance and larger supply.
I agree it is old news. However there have been re-interpretation of Viking/Observator with the new Surveyor pics. Old oceanic features disappear under high resolution, and new ones appear. Means more work for the eggheads.
A lot of this kind of stuff gets presented at the AMerican Geophysical Union Meeting in mid-December in San Francisco.
Theatre movies generally have an order of magnitude more financial resources than TV movies. I hope the TV series isn't too compromised.
There again most theatre remakes of TV series have been dogs.
The nice thing about a profound piece of literature is that it is open to creative new interpretations now and then. Look at the endless round of Shakespeare, Austin and Christmas fable movies. I look forward to the "millennial Dune".
I presume between the NSA monitoring programs, commercial record keeping and marketing research, the equivalent is done in the US. Its just dispersed among a number of organization takes a little more work for someone to aggregate.
These investigations made wide use of unintentionally recorded emails and logs. Pretty much a wash- leaves a lot open to interpretation on both sides.
The action is so slow you feel the director and all actors are "dead".
Best visibility is an hour before sunrise or
after sunset. The orbit is inclined to reach over
the US and FSU, but it doesn't always go over
both every orbit. The axis of inclination precesses, so you only see it some the time. The further south you are, the more likely to get visible orbits.
Even since Alpha acquired the Rus-hab module
its been very bright. It was brighter than
anything save for the sun, moon, and Venus.
Probably it will be brighter than Venus next week.
I've seen several times, some intentionally and
some accidentally.
Certainly seems like it!
The other pioneers 10 & 11 faint signals are used
to test SETI equipment. I recall one of the two
becoming undetectable recently.
A retinal scanner will be the most compact portable display device when it is perfected. At ordinary power it will be the display of choice for normal vision.
I guess I'd want to re-arrange about a weeks worth of TV viewing for watching at geek-convenient times, i.e. about 20 hours. There are
occasions when I'd get interested in a TV series mid-season and wished to have access to earlier episodes.
Hardware is a brutal business, as American TV, VCR, IBM clone, and now Computer VCR makers have found out. Sell the software and content to manage the hardware. In some cases you may want to be in the hardware end for a year or two (MicroSoft plan?) to jumpstart the software.
Its like $0.25 for an hour of video tape
and $4.00 for a hour of compressed disk TV (gigabyte). The ratio has always been around 10-20x. Five years from now, move the decimal place left again for both.
So the price has to be based on other factors such as functionality and convenience. I think there are enough of these to keep Replay/TiVo promising.
What next, film, TV, stage ...
Geek dramas have made the screen such as the "Pirates of Silicon Valley". What is necessary is "dramatic content". This means a conflict that builds into a climax and characters with quirks. In Pirates, the conflict was PC newcomers versus established computing and Apple vs. MicroSoft. Bill and Steve had numerous quirks. What about Linus? I guess not as dramatic.
Schols, libraries, colleges.
In areas with lesser resources.