Instead of putting people in jail just mark them with embedded RFID chips.
It can be more then just a convinient surveillance, if you were involved in a really bad crime, everytime you go to public place you'll get red lights turn on whenever you pass by the scanners, and people pointing fingers at you. And therefore a hope for more appropriate social adjustments then the one you got in jail can exist.
Sure it's a useful marketing prefix, not always used appropriately, but there's a reason behind its popularity.
Advanced semiconductors today printed with 90 nm (Latest Intel and AMD CPUs for ex) and carbon nanotubes can be grown at 1 nm diameter. The silicon is already very problematic, Moore's law, heat and other $hit.
Carbon nanotubes are tubes from single moleculs of carbon that can be shaped and form exteremely strong structures(ropes), can be conductors or semiconductors, light sensitive, light emitting and more(changing angles and diameter). All in all it's very small and highly usefull. Give it ten more years and you'll see dreams come true. There're some sparks already.
Multiple times longer battery life combined with much less power consuming devices is under way.
Finer ever displays and sensors and whoever knows what else. We just need to remember to behave ourselves.
..but well you're right, symbian seems to join the race, thx for the correction.
the last time(~3 months ago) I've seen docomo recomendations for design of foma phones, it was like this: baseband - usually with mITRON and application cpu(omap, sh) with general purpose os, and the only mentioned one was linux.
Out of six manufacturers in Japan making WCDMA phones only NEC, Panasonic and Fujitsu are successful.(in the order of appearance)
NEC have choosen linux and recently joined 3g R&D with Panasonic.
Use of Symbian is probably to ensure europe as a future market for japs.
Today: Recommendations(read "a must have") made by Japanese NTT DoCoMo, made embedded Linux the OS of chiose for all 3g Foma phones manufacturers for 2004. Some other handsets run Linux as well. And one day everything will migrate to 3G...
Tomorrow: As for PDAs and phones, IMO there should be no such thing in the future. First it was cellular comunication integrated in PDAs and some basic applications on handsets. Then 802.11 and VoIP, and then "nomadic" networks.(802.16 and such)
You'll have one device for all your communications and productivity needs. And I strongly believe that the market share of future devices like this, running under Linux will be very high.
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Instead of putting people in jail just mark them with embedded RFID chips. It can be more then just a convinient surveillance, if you were involved in a really bad crime, everytime you go to public place you'll get red lights turn on whenever you pass by the scanners, and people pointing fingers at you. And therefore a hope for more appropriate social adjustments then the one you got in jail can exist.
Your quote is a bit out of context. Please ellaborate on the issues.
Sure it's a useful marketing prefix, not always used appropriately, but there's a reason behind its popularity. Advanced semiconductors today printed with 90 nm (Latest Intel and AMD CPUs for ex) and carbon nanotubes can be grown at 1 nm diameter. The silicon is already very problematic, Moore's law, heat and other $hit. Carbon nanotubes are tubes from single moleculs of carbon that can be shaped and form exteremely strong structures(ropes), can be conductors or semiconductors, light sensitive, light emitting and more(changing angles and diameter). All in all it's very small and highly usefull. Give it ten more years and you'll see dreams come true. There're some sparks already. Multiple times longer battery life combined with much less power consuming devices is under way. Finer ever displays and sensors and whoever knows what else. We just need to remember to behave ourselves.
..but well you're right, symbian seems to join the race, thx for the correction. the last time(~3 months ago) I've seen docomo recomendations for design of foma phones, it was like this: baseband - usually with mITRON and application cpu(omap, sh) with general purpose os, and the only mentioned one was linux. Out of six manufacturers in Japan making WCDMA phones only NEC, Panasonic and Fujitsu are successful.(in the order of appearance) NEC have choosen linux and recently joined 3g R&D with Panasonic. Use of Symbian is probably to ensure europe as a future market for japs.
Today: Recommendations(read "a must have") made by Japanese NTT DoCoMo, made embedded Linux the OS of chiose for all 3g Foma phones manufacturers for 2004. Some other handsets run Linux as well. And one day everything will migrate to 3G... Tomorrow: As for PDAs and phones, IMO there should be no such thing in the future. First it was cellular comunication integrated in PDAs and some basic applications on handsets. Then 802.11 and VoIP, and then "nomadic" networks.(802.16 and such) You'll have one device for all your communications and productivity needs. And I strongly believe that the market share of future devices like this, running under Linux will be very high.