It's interesting how for example Palm will start shipping Palm Pilots with built in GPRS-chips and bluetooth soon. The PDA-market is merging with the phone market. I think buying a PDA without some sort of comunication chip pretty soon will be like buying a PC without an ethernet-card (or modem).
You're missing the point. This is not for WLAN parties. This is for lying on the beach with a Sony Ericsson T68 Bluetooth enabled GPRS phone in your pocket, a pina colada in one hand and a camera in the other and snapping pictures and send them to your friends in real time.
Don't forget, there are more things happening in the research world than genetic engineering. Nanotechnology, quantum supercomputers, AI, cybernetics and the development of the good old Internet to mention a few.
Actually, I don't think work, as we know it, will be necessary in the future.
If nano-assembly machines ever become a reality, resources such as food or fuel become practically infinite. Also, machines and robots will be able to do more and more of the things we do. Adding to that the fact the people is becoming more and more picky about what they do with their life, you end up with a society that is close to an intellectual uthopia.
Or dystophia.
Think about it, technology will enable us to do anything and live forever. No more obstacles. No more threats. No more risks in your life. Technology is the magic wand that brings you anything.
But what do you do when the magic wand just isn't fun anymore? Will enjoyment of the little things in life disappear? Do we need the obstacles and the risks and the diseases and the limited life span to truly appreciate our miserable lifes?
I hope our posthumans ancestors have the answer to that question.
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Obviously they're afraid of what open source can do and they should be.
It's interesting how for example Palm will start shipping Palm Pilots with built in GPRS-chips and bluetooth soon. The PDA-market is merging with the phone market.
I think buying a PDA without some sort of comunication chip pretty soon will be like buying a PC without an ethernet-card (or modem).
You're missing the point. This is not for WLAN parties. This is for lying on the beach with a Sony Ericsson T68 Bluetooth enabled GPRS phone in your pocket, a pina colada in one hand and a camera in the other and snapping pictures and send them to your friends in real time.
Isn't that kind of how the WaReZ-scene works...?
It has got way better with the T68 and the upcoming T300.
Actually, the T68 can do right about everything you mentioned.
And it's cheaper too.
I would much rather see a separate bluetooth enabled "real" camera.
Don't forget, there are more things happening in the research world than genetic engineering. Nanotechnology, quantum supercomputers, AI, cybernetics and the development of the good old Internet to mention a few.
Actually, I don't think work, as we know it, will be necessary in the future.
If nano-assembly machines ever become a reality, resources such as food or fuel become practically infinite. Also, machines and robots will be able to do more and more of the things we do. Adding to that the fact the people is becoming more and more picky about what they do with their life, you end up with a society that is close to an intellectual uthopia.
Or dystophia.
Think about it, technology will enable us to do anything and live forever. No more obstacles. No more threats. No more risks in your life. Technology is the magic wand that brings you anything.
But what do you do when the magic wand just isn't fun anymore? Will enjoyment of the little things in life disappear? Do we need the obstacles and the risks and the diseases and the limited life span to truly appreciate our miserable lifes?
I hope our posthumans ancestors have the answer to that question.