Would you buy water from mars at $10,000 a litre? If the rich and famous spend thousands on a diamond encrusted mobile phone, would they spend that sort of figure on a bottle of space pop?
...why store locally? Smart caching / syncing will ensure your favourites are available locally on your device / iPod, but why store everything locally? Keep it on a remote server. This will cause less hassle when you lose or damage your device too. Amazed this Google bod was talking the obvious rather than the more imaginative and realistic.
I know plenty of Jews (and other people's) who hate this infringement on our civil liberties as anyone. Please do not group people. It is evil that is at work here, not any specific race, nationality or creed. And evil can lurk anywhere.
...which I believe also runs Series 3 on Symbian. While the phone is mechanically very well made and robust, and the software does everything, the human factors are a joke. Buttons that rely on the touch screen are too small and one is constantly hitting the wrong function. There is little consistency between applications - and of course, the thing crashes all the time. If you want an example of how to do smart phones right - try the latest PalmOS based TREOs. The 680, while lacking a good camera, looks like a good move for sensible business people who wish to avoid the MS rout and don't like Nokias. All said, we many have said on this post, when Apple do a phone, it will be a phone done right. We hope! Incidentally, got any questions on your device, post them at the beta version of FONEBOX.COM.
...per month (or other preferred billing peroid) for unlimited calls, but NO ads. Why always this obsession with ads? I have purchased everything I own after seeing other people with the item(s) in their lives, from my first car to an iPod. The standard of living countries that frown on over commercialisation (such as Sweden) is the same or higher than countries that surround themselves with such crap. Google show such little imagination it's stunning. Watch this space.
...because unlike movies like T2 and earlier films that predicted a society where cold tecnology and a common sense free society exist hand in hand to create hell on earth for freedom loving people - there will be no super hero to come save the day. What Tony Blair is doing in the UK is genuinely terrifying. He wants a national DNA database, rather than putting more real police on the streets. He is so lacking in vision it is very worrying. We have cameras everywhere, dumbed down TV and no really ethical direction. I can tell my American friends that if your country follows mine, we are in for a terrible, cold and ultra constrained future where people will take this all for granted - like the clues souls in Logan's Run. All reading this please remember the words 'Lemon Zest'. I'll be posting a detailed article on the huge threats to our liberty and sense of privacy in due course. want to be notified when it's online? Touch base using the form at http://www.owonder.com/contact I'm one of the few entrepreneurs who is not afraid to challenge the status quo for fear of upsetting those with more nefarious motives such as control of the populace by technology that is primarily installed for profit of the authorities and manufacturer rather than law and order.
Where Apple have gone wrong in the desktop space is in the false belief that people are desperate for iLife applications like iDVD, iMovie, Garageband, iWorks, iPhoto and others. Actually, those are consumer applications with a definate "Steve on the stage" geewhiz but with a limited market in a world of physical media free content distribution (YouTube, Flickr etc) and more. Furthermore, and this is the crux of the issue, MOST people buy computers to solve problems, such as running their business. (Gamers buy consoles or DIY PCs.) And for all it's faults, Microsoft has, even if initially accidentally, created a vast 'ecosphere' of available solutions or tools that make creating turnkey solutions easy. A well organised iT person or team can form a company and then engineer and market solutions to small businesses using available MS and 3rd party MS tools - and very inexpensive unbranded PCs.
Once Apple encourage 3rd parties to put together solutions for those desiring them, then people will flock to the Macintosh's focused industrial design (in particular the Mac Mini) running the stable and virus free OSX.
One more thing, Apple needs to show more confidence in marketing it's really useful applications. I have recently purchased Apple's Keynote. For all it's limited flaws, it is one of the most compelling, fun and usefull applications I have ever had the joy to use. And it's helping me raise money for my company and sell our product! Now that is what I call a solution! (Don't even compare it to PowerPoint!)
(I am aware that Apple are limited in their promotion of Office type apps as part of past agreements with MS. It's time they shook that one loose, else they will always be the superior underdog. Hmmm?
...in the 1970s, with special regard to Pidgeons. With relation to humans, it could explain the link between Lay Lines and those of us who find it easier to sleep and perform in specific locations and/or when facing a specific direction.
The Yoyo adapter for my black Wallstreet Powerbook went bang, as did THREE square white adapters for my 15" and 12" G4 PowerBooks. It was always a bang, a smell of burning and a distinct and permanent loss of electricity. On one occasion, even although a month out of warranty, Apple gave me a new one. It's not their support that's the issue, there is a design flaw. I don't know what that is though, but wanted to mention this here as I am now using a lovely new Macbook Black, but it also has a square white adapter and I'm wondering when it's going to go poof too! (Poof Two, the movie?):-)
This is different. Whatever 'filmed' me, was mobile, as the image showed the rear of my car, from several locations. Could not have been taken from a camera high up. My view of Britain from having been back here now since 2000, is that the people and government BOTH lack integrity and principle, from the appalling behavior of young people with regard to alchohol, (young girls breeding potentially alcholic children), and the dumbed down television programming (hated by those who 'get it'), which has pretty much reduced the ability for the British to think. They simply consume celebrity and home improvement television and magazines, live a buy now pay later lifestyle and frankly don't give a damn. In a way, this is similar to the period before previous historical revolutions, whereby leaders AND the populace became incipid, and a small but well 'armed' band of revolutionaries set them free - and then opened the eyes. We need this here in Britain. It looks like everything is going well, people are superficially wealthy, but there is something wrong going on behind the scenes. Etc etc!
1) The picture (which can be viewed on the government's website) shows my car driving along a street minutes before the offence.
2) I am a casual photographer, and some people I have met over the last 30 or so years dislike being photographed and/or prefer to be asked. I certainly do not appreciate my every move being monitored! How many other pictures were taken? And over how long a period?
3) Yes. Absolutely. Because the fees are a lot of money, and some of us are honest hard working people. Most people are not so stupid to intentionally violate the law. Furthermore, in the UK, the punishment for relatively minor offences can cause more distress, stress, financialy difficulties than that dealt out to criminals who receive all sorts of help.
An increasingly silent majority (who hopefully will not remain silent much longer) are realising this, and I very much hope there is a major uprising here in the UK.
Our liberal media is also fanning the flames, with it's appallingly dishonest reporting and agenda driven content. Thank g-d some of us have our eyes open! Truth and justice all the way please! With fairness for the well meaning and dicipline for the nefarious.
Am rambling on a bit, but I live here and really want out ASAP. All the wrong people are being punished and being made to live increasingly inconvenient lives whereby we're all guilty until proven innocent. Oh how Minority Report got it so right. Pity no heros in real life.
As a Brit who lived in the USA from 1991 to 2000, I can report unfortunately, that unlike the USA, whose wonderful constitution and congress means that controversial measures are often debated, here, if the PM or PM2B decides to implement a law, he may and sometimes will bring it into being. The collapse of morals, lack of principled leadership, common sense and genuine concern for the populace shown by Blair's government is terrifying. I have had several parking tickets (citations) in London whereby my car was photographed BEFORE the alleged offence, and without my permission. I was stunned to receive pictures of my car and toughly written letters demanding payment of £100 for very very minor and totally accidental parking offences. Once such CCTV systems and linked to the same database as this retail database, we will in fact be living in a world far worse than Owell envisioned because unlike people, technology is cold and unable to make compassionate or common sense based judgements. It's not the Orwellian nightmare we should be afraid of, it's the concept of Skynet and such a system being missued by a corrupt and morally bankrupt government. Or G-d forbid, any terrorists who take over parliament and use it to 'take out' people of a specific ethnic group. It's happened before! People of Britain, open your eyes!
AT&T Patented something like this ages ago...
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...back in the 1990s, I was helping someone who was involved with a technology called the optical waveguide display, developed in part by Imperial College, London. This had the ability to emit and receive light. As part of my work I was doing some research and came across a patent by AT&T that described a system similar to Apple's. Of course, it is possible AT&T's patent expired and/or Apple are doing something different. Either way, the privacy issues are interesting as it will not be possible to include a physical 'lens cap' for peace of mind. Also, this would be ideal for an 'instant' scanner. IE, lay item to be scanned on your display, and it's 'scanned' in a flash. No more moving scan head! Forget 30fps video, we could be talking 30fps scanning! (Using a commercial application of the technology.) The LCD photocopier? Ooh!
If you live in the UK and have ever received a fine (citation) from a speed camera (everywhere in the UK) or even from a minimum wage automaton (virtually all traffic wardens in the UK are minorities) you will know that no matter how well meaning a person you are, your professional reputation or that you were only 5 mph over the limit, or simply rushing around trying to find some lose change for the ticket machine while the parking fine was issues, when you attempt to challenge 'the system', it is time consuming, stressfull and of course, if you fail in your protest, expensive. Like the introduction of iD cards, all of this simply profits the government, local authorities and the manufacturers of the technology. This is all the realisation of the distopian nightmare of having freedom, the right to make mistakes and the right to revolt ('wither revolution?' taken away from us by a corporate sponsored government who keeps tabs on it's citizens using technology. I'm British and find this far more abhorant than any terrorist threat and prey the people of the freedom loving USA reject the lot of it. The best way to fight terrorism and other crime is for us all to keep a fair eye on suspicious activity. We have souls so can judge accordingly.
One or two applications do quit once in a while, but then I'm using a 2001 model powerbook that with only 384Meg RAM, but the OS never crashes, there are NO viruses and when an app does quit, the others remain active. The issues with the iPod are related to Apple company policy, which can be challenged in the courts. And probably little different to other companies. Apple just gets a lot of press focus, effecively drowning out the behaviour of other companies.
I omitted to mention, a slimmed down (size wize) P990 type device with a Samsung D600 type TV/VGA Output and optional Bluetooth keyboard would be just the job.
...what a P990 could do. In Q2 2004, I spent 10 days travelling the USA and was able to run my business from the P900 thanks to O2's roaming. a) Send and receive e-mail (with attachments), b) Surf the web using Opera c) Update company intranet d) Take (albiet crappy) photos e) Listen to music f) Organise meetings (using excellent calendar) g) Make notes and ideas i) When I really needed laptop power, used Bluetooth to take my 12" PowerBook online, but I hardly used it and only bought it along to make a presentation. j) Make phone calls!
How else would it be written? Ironically, the rest of my post is a bit rushed in it's prose, but I know for a fact that there is nothing wrong with "Minolta have a history of innovation from..." I recall that in the USA (I am British) people may say "Minolta has a history of innovation from..." (Either work. British version implies Minolta own or pocess a history, which is sort of true, while US version implies it currently has a history etc.) I lived in the USA from '91 to '00 and took years to get used to spelling or pronounciation of certain words, from aluminium spelled as aluminum to 'route'' prononounced as 'rowt' (as in, the route to the city etc.) I could go on.
As an avid Minolta and then Sony camera user and saving for a excellent KM 7D (or it's rumored replacement the 7Di) was devastated by this news. But as I posted on www.dpreview.com KM SLR forums, if Sony and KM can do what Sony and Ericsson did and merge their brands, it will retain loyal Minolta followers and give Sony credibility in the pro photography market. Minolta have a history of innovation from auto focus to anti-shake while Sony have a reputation for engineering, so such a merging would be perfect, but ONLY if the branding is right. On a personal note, the Konica Minolta 7D has the best ergonomics of any camera I have ever held (and natural looking photos too), and if it becomes unavailable or hard to service, there will be no camera out there for me to consider. Effectively, I will protest by not buying anything else until a equal or better designed camera is launched by someone.
Think about this. When you are hungry, really hungry, like you feel after some physical activity, and you MUST eat something NOW. You get aggressive (Check), your eyes stare in all directions scouting for something edible (Check), you will even eat what you don't normally like, such as brussels sprouts, anchovy pizza or licorice candy (Check!) Consider what humans did when suffering from not just extreme hunger, but the instinctive need to survive after the Andes air crash and Donner 'party'. So, you're a hungry bird, who needs energy to continue to fly, and if you spot something warm and tasty down below, you're going to (try) and disable it, before tucking in. What I'm saying here is that, is this really surprising? Would today's birds attack us if their regular sources of convenient nourishment vanished? (Watch Hitchock's The Birds for a frightening scenario!) It's just fortunate our largest birds are far smaller than those from prehistoric times. Anyway, our evolutionary intelligence means we have heat seaking missiles, so, we can always fight back.
It would be incredible if we discover that our mind and body records in intricate detail our last moments, and that this information can be obtained / downloaded etc. Perhaps through genetics and/or tapping into the brain in the minutes soon after death? The legal implications would be as controversial as the scientific.
I'm 42, and still have near perfect eye site. Have used computers every day since my Sinclair ZX-81 in 198(1!). My mother always said, leave a balanced lifestyle, and with regards to your eyes, ensure that every day you take their muscles to their limits in both directions. Driving is an excellent way to keep you eyes on distant objects (you are forced into this to read distant road signs, look out for danger ahead etc), while reading a book helps the muscles in the other direction. Diet wise, reduced carbs and sugar and an increase in natural protiens and fruit and veg. When it comes to displays, LCDs are far better on your eyes than a CRT, and in an ideal world, you would only read amber text on a black background! But that's just not going to happen is it?:-) Finally, keep the brightness at a minimum in low light conditions and be aware that poking at the keyboard in a darkened room is terrible for your eyes. Or buy a late generation Powerbook with backlit keys.
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Would you buy water from mars at $10,000 a litre? If the rich and famous spend thousands on a diamond encrusted mobile phone, would they spend that sort of figure on a bottle of space pop?
...why store locally? Smart caching / syncing will ensure your favourites are available locally on your device / iPod, but why store everything locally? Keep it on a remote server. This will cause less hassle when you lose or damage your device too. Amazed this Google bod was talking the obvious rather than the more imaginative and realistic.
I know plenty of Jews (and other people's) who hate this infringement on our civil liberties as anyone. Please do not group people. It is evil that is at work here, not any specific race, nationality or creed. And evil can lurk anywhere.
...which I believe also runs Series 3 on Symbian. While the phone is mechanically very well made and robust, and the software does everything, the human factors are a joke. Buttons that rely on the touch screen are too small and one is constantly hitting the wrong function. There is little consistency between applications - and of course, the thing crashes all the time. If you want an example of how to do smart phones right - try the latest PalmOS based TREOs. The 680, while lacking a good camera, looks like a good move for sensible business people who wish to avoid the MS rout and don't like Nokias. All said, we many have said on this post, when Apple do a phone, it will be a phone done right. We hope! Incidentally, got any questions on your device, post them at the beta version of FONEBOX.COM.
...per month (or other preferred billing peroid) for unlimited calls, but NO ads. Why always this obsession with ads? I have purchased everything I own after seeing other people with the item(s) in their lives, from my first car to an iPod. The standard of living countries that frown on over commercialisation (such as Sweden) is the same or higher than countries that surround themselves with such crap. Google show such little imagination it's stunning. Watch this space.
...because unlike movies like T2 and earlier films that predicted a society where cold tecnology and a common sense free society exist hand in hand to create hell on earth for freedom loving people - there will be no super hero to come save the day. What Tony Blair is doing in the UK is genuinely terrifying. He wants a national DNA database, rather than putting more real police on the streets. He is so lacking in vision it is very worrying. We have cameras everywhere, dumbed down TV and no really ethical direction. I can tell my American friends that if your country follows mine, we are in for a terrible, cold and ultra constrained future where people will take this all for granted - like the clues souls in Logan's Run. All reading this please remember the words 'Lemon Zest'. I'll be posting a detailed article on the huge threats to our liberty and sense of privacy in due course. want to be notified when it's online? Touch base using the form at http://www.owonder.com/contact I'm one of the few entrepreneurs who is not afraid to challenge the status quo for fear of upsetting those with more nefarious motives such as control of the populace by technology that is primarily installed for profit of the authorities and manufacturer rather than law and order.
Apparently, he had an accident with the targetting mechanism.
Where Apple have gone wrong in the desktop space is in the false belief that people are desperate for iLife applications like iDVD, iMovie, Garageband, iWorks, iPhoto and others. Actually, those are consumer applications with a definate "Steve on the stage" geewhiz but with a limited market in a world of physical media free content distribution (YouTube, Flickr etc) and more. Furthermore, and this is the crux of the issue, MOST people buy computers to solve problems, such as running their business. (Gamers buy consoles or DIY PCs.) And for all it's faults, Microsoft has, even if initially accidentally, created a vast 'ecosphere' of available solutions or tools that make creating turnkey solutions easy. A well organised iT person or team can form a company and then engineer and market solutions to small businesses using available MS and 3rd party MS tools - and very inexpensive unbranded PCs.
Once Apple encourage 3rd parties to put together solutions for those desiring them, then people will flock to the Macintosh's focused industrial design (in particular the Mac Mini) running the stable and virus free OSX.
One more thing, Apple needs to show more confidence in marketing it's really useful applications. I have recently purchased Apple's Keynote. For all it's limited flaws, it is one of the most compelling, fun and usefull applications I have ever had the joy to use. And it's helping me raise money for my company and sell our product! Now that is what I call a solution! (Don't even compare it to PowerPoint!)
(I am aware that Apple are limited in their promotion of Office type apps as part of past agreements with MS. It's time they shook that one loose, else they will always be the superior underdog. Hmmm?
...in the 1970s, with special regard to Pidgeons. With relation to humans, it could explain the link between Lay Lines and those of us who find it easier to sleep and perform in specific locations and/or when facing a specific direction.
The Yoyo adapter for my black Wallstreet Powerbook went bang, as did THREE square white adapters for my 15" and 12" G4 PowerBooks. It was always a bang, a smell of burning and a distinct and permanent loss of electricity. On one occasion, even although a month out of warranty, Apple gave me a new one. It's not their support that's the issue, there is a design flaw. I don't know what that is though, but wanted to mention this here as I am now using a lovely new Macbook Black, but it also has a square white adapter and I'm wondering when it's going to go poof too! (Poof Two, the movie?) :-)
This is different. Whatever 'filmed' me, was mobile, as the image showed the rear of my car, from several locations. Could not have been taken from a camera high up. My view of Britain from having been back here now since 2000, is that the people and government BOTH lack integrity and principle, from the appalling behavior of young people with regard to alchohol, (young girls breeding potentially alcholic children), and the dumbed down television programming (hated by those who 'get it'), which has pretty much reduced the ability for the British to think. They simply consume celebrity and home improvement television and magazines, live a buy now pay later lifestyle and frankly don't give a damn. In a way, this is similar to the period before previous historical revolutions, whereby leaders AND the populace became incipid, and a small but well 'armed' band of revolutionaries set them free - and then opened the eyes. We need this here in Britain. It looks like everything is going well, people are superficially wealthy, but there is something wrong going on behind the scenes. Etc etc!
1) The picture (which can be viewed on the government's website) shows my car driving along a street minutes before the offence.
2) I am a casual photographer, and some people I have met over the last 30 or so years dislike being photographed and/or prefer to be asked. I certainly do not appreciate my every move being monitored! How many other pictures were taken? And over how long a period?
3) Yes. Absolutely. Because the fees are a lot of money, and some of us are honest hard working people. Most people are not so stupid to intentionally violate the law. Furthermore, in the UK, the punishment for relatively minor offences can cause more distress, stress, financialy difficulties than that dealt out to criminals who receive all sorts of help.
An increasingly silent majority (who hopefully will not remain silent much longer) are realising this, and I very much hope there is a major uprising here in the UK.
Our liberal media is also fanning the flames, with it's appallingly dishonest reporting and agenda driven content. Thank g-d some of us have our eyes open! Truth and justice all the way please! With fairness for the well meaning and dicipline for the nefarious.
Am rambling on a bit, but I live here and really want out ASAP. All the wrong people are being punished and being made to live increasingly inconvenient lives whereby we're all guilty until proven innocent. Oh how Minority Report got it so right. Pity no heros in real life.
As a Brit who lived in the USA from 1991 to 2000, I can report unfortunately, that unlike the USA, whose wonderful constitution and congress means that controversial measures are often debated, here, if the PM or PM2B decides to implement a law, he may and sometimes will bring it into being. The collapse of morals, lack of principled leadership, common sense and genuine concern for the populace shown by Blair's government is terrifying. I have had several parking tickets (citations) in London whereby my car was photographed BEFORE the alleged offence, and without my permission. I was stunned to receive pictures of my car and toughly written letters demanding payment of £100 for very very minor and totally accidental parking offences. Once such CCTV systems and linked to the same database as this retail database, we will in fact be living in a world far worse than Owell envisioned because unlike people, technology is cold and unable to make compassionate or common sense based judgements. It's not the Orwellian nightmare we should be afraid of, it's the concept of Skynet and such a system being missued by a corrupt and morally bankrupt government. Or G-d forbid, any terrorists who take over parliament and use it to 'take out' people of a specific ethnic group. It's happened before! People of Britain, open your eyes!
...back in the 1990s, I was helping someone who was involved with a technology called the optical waveguide display, developed in part by Imperial College, London. This had the ability to emit and receive light. As part of my work I was doing some research and came across a patent by AT&T that described a system similar to Apple's. Of course, it is possible AT&T's patent expired and/or Apple are doing something different. Either way, the privacy issues are interesting as it will not be possible to include a physical 'lens cap' for peace of mind. Also, this would be ideal for an 'instant' scanner. IE, lay item to be scanned on your display, and it's 'scanned' in a flash. No more moving scan head! Forget 30fps video, we could be talking 30fps scanning! (Using a commercial application of the technology.) The LCD photocopier? Ooh!
If you live in the UK and have ever received a fine (citation) from a speed camera (everywhere in the UK) or even from a minimum wage automaton (virtually all traffic wardens in the UK are minorities) you will know that no matter how well meaning a person you are, your professional reputation or that you were only 5 mph over the limit, or simply rushing around trying to find some lose change for the ticket machine while the parking fine was issues, when you attempt to challenge 'the system', it is time consuming, stressfull and of course, if you fail in your protest, expensive. Like the introduction of iD cards, all of this simply profits the government, local authorities and the manufacturers of the technology. This is all the realisation of the distopian nightmare of having freedom, the right to make mistakes and the right to revolt ('wither revolution?' taken away from us by a corporate sponsored government who keeps tabs on it's citizens using technology. I'm British and find this far more abhorant than any terrorist threat and prey the people of the freedom loving USA reject the lot of it. The best way to fight terrorism and other crime is for us all to keep a fair eye on suspicious activity. We have souls so can judge accordingly.
One or two applications do quit once in a while, but then I'm using a 2001 model powerbook that with only 384Meg RAM, but the OS never crashes, there are NO viruses and when an app does quit, the others remain active. The issues with the iPod are related to Apple company policy, which can be challenged in the courts. And probably little different to other companies. Apple just gets a lot of press focus, effecively drowning out the behaviour of other companies.
I said, what total and utter bollocks! (And I'll eat my Aug 2001 500Mhz Titanium PowerBook running OSX 10.4.5 if it happens.)
I omitted to mention, a slimmed down (size wize) P990 type device with a Samsung D600 type TV/VGA Output and optional Bluetooth keyboard would be just the job.
...what a P990 could do. In Q2 2004, I spent 10 days travelling the USA and was able to run my business from the P900 thanks to O2's roaming. a) Send and receive e-mail (with attachments), b) Surf the web using Opera c) Update company intranet d) Take (albiet crappy) photos e) Listen to music f) Organise meetings (using excellent calendar) g) Make notes and ideas i) When I really needed laptop power, used Bluetooth to take my 12" PowerBook online, but I hardly used it and only bought it along to make a presentation. j) Make phone calls!
How else would it be written? Ironically, the rest of my post is a bit rushed in it's prose, but I know for a fact that there is nothing wrong with "Minolta have a history of innovation from..." I recall that in the USA (I am British) people may say "Minolta has a history of innovation from..." (Either work. British version implies Minolta own or pocess a history, which is sort of true, while US version implies it currently has a history etc.) I lived in the USA from '91 to '00 and took years to get used to spelling or pronounciation of certain words, from aluminium spelled as aluminum to 'route'' prononounced as 'rowt' (as in, the route to the city etc.) I could go on.
As an avid Minolta and then Sony camera user and saving for a excellent KM 7D (or it's rumored replacement the 7Di) was devastated by this news. But as I posted on www.dpreview.com KM SLR forums, if Sony and KM can do what Sony and Ericsson did and merge their brands, it will retain loyal Minolta followers and give Sony credibility in the pro photography market. Minolta have a history of innovation from auto focus to anti-shake while Sony have a reputation for engineering, so such a merging would be perfect, but ONLY if the branding is right. On a personal note, the Konica Minolta 7D has the best ergonomics of any camera I have ever held (and natural looking photos too), and if it becomes unavailable or hard to service, there will be no camera out there for me to consider. Effectively, I will protest by not buying anything else until a equal or better designed camera is launched by someone.
"The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth."
It would be incredible if we discover that our mind and body records in intricate detail our last moments, and that this information can be obtained / downloaded etc. Perhaps through genetics and/or tapping into the brain in the minutes soon after death? The legal implications would be as controversial as the scientific.
I'm 42, and still have near perfect eye site. Have used computers every day since my Sinclair ZX-81 in 198(1!). My mother always said, leave a balanced lifestyle, and with regards to your eyes, ensure that every day you take their muscles to their limits in both directions. Driving is an excellent way to keep you eyes on distant objects (you are forced into this to read distant road signs, look out for danger ahead etc), while reading a book helps the muscles in the other direction. Diet wise, reduced carbs and sugar and an increase in natural protiens and fruit and veg. When it comes to displays, LCDs are far better on your eyes than a CRT, and in an ideal world, you would only read amber text on a black background! But that's just not going to happen is it? :-) Finally, keep the brightness at a minimum in low light conditions and be aware that poking at the keyboard in a darkened room is terrible for your eyes. Or buy a late generation Powerbook with backlit keys.
Agreed.