Day Off Tomorrow…Yay!!!

May 1st, 2008

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God have I been moaning again? Seriously everything’s just fine, I’ve been thinking about the next big thing! How can I predict what it might be and get to the front of the queue to reap any rewards? There’s a lot being written about emerging technologies, Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) will soon replace plasma and give us roll up displays for presentations or portable TV, they will also set alight the imaginations of architects and interior designers when it comes to new buildings, imagine a entire wall that lights up when you flick on the switch in your living room and then gently dim to suit your mood, or even the floor, how about a sound to light setting? Now, as I’m sure you’ve heard, scientists are growing peoples’ fingers back! How cool is that? I can see an opportunity for a party trick there… And of course Rapid Manufacturing is surging forward, BMW are manufacturing prototypes using this technology and swear it saves them an absolute fortune, soon we will all have a 3D printer in our homes to manufacture basic items such as combs, hairclips, party crockery etc. kids could even design their own lunch boxes. Then who knows? There are loads of things being worked on at the moment most of us have no idea about, I do find it all quite exciting, but from where I’m looking, ultimately all technologies will converge and we will basically become part of it ourselves (not that we’re not already). The Mayan’s talked of an eventual global consciousness and it could easily be perceived that soon in the future we will be able to connect our nervous system to the world wide web and experience anything we decided as if it were real, a bit like The Game of Life in Red Dwarf or maybe we could have a spinal socket like Neo in The Matrix. With the way in which technology is progressing, all these ideas are a possibility, but progress needs stability, and the world is far from a stable environment.

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