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Technologies of the Near Future
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In this thread we talk about future technologies that are currently undergoing research and development. Not science-fiction stuff, like "oh it would be so awesome if we had lightsabers!!!11one" or "lez go terraform mars!!" but rather technologies of a more realistic nature, technologies that will most likely come into being in the next decade or two.
- Evolution of computers: new materials, interfaces and designs for computers
- Super cars: greener, safer technology for vehicles of the future
- Home improvement: energy-efficient, perhaps even energy-generating homes
- The Internet: better connections, more personalized content, and what is called The Grid (a.k.a. grid computing).
- Communications: Mobile technologies to satisfy our hunger for immediate information
- Nanotechnology: applications in environmental sciences and medicine, and a lot more
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I mean totally fucking explode.
We are in for so much cool and/or genetic clone wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRCFWdZicOM
It's so overblown and a complete mess.
Nano-biotech will make us immortal gods or mutant cyborgs.
I am pleased either way.
God dammit, either you use voice commands or a touch screen, but not both. Also I fucking hate that couple, but I don't know why.
But can it cure the common cold...
yeah, why cure cancer when the imminent threat of the common cold stalks the streets?
Hearing that thing drone on doesn't sound like fun.
As far as telling me the weather, that's a nice addition but hardly something specific to or even useful in the kitchen.
I would buy it then.
"Ice cream please."
"Affirmative"
That would be glorious.
It would track that too! RFID is fun.
How does having an automated inventory prevent that?
I can see mine now
rice a roni
lean cuisine
beer
pie
Another real advantage is energy saving (assuming it doesnt actually have the massive backlit screen and only has a little touch screen). Rather than checking for milk, heating up the fridge and then having to go and get it, you check for milk and dont open the fridge if it isnt there. Thus you open the fridge less and save energy. Even more clever would be if it automated itself a bit on the inside, with kinda a robot arm internally stacking things in and putting them in a "heat lock" when you said you wanted them so you could get them out and put them in without opening the main cooled compartment.
Of course, all this relies more on technology becoming more reliable than more advanced, you could build such a device today, it would just break down more than could be tolerated and be too slow.
Don't cooks typically have specialized freezers and refrigerators anyway? I think most people are talking about common consumer tech in this thread. :P
This one better be absolute perfection before it goes to market, because if I push the "glass of milk" button and get a "glass of orange juice" or a "glass of fresh cottage cheese", I will be getting the shotgun out of the dishwasher and poking large, energy innefficient holes in the front of my 'I'm smarter than jesus' refrigerator!
Cool idea though, like a vending machine, that is free, and made just for me! Take that office assclown that takes all the twinkies the day after the vending machine gets filled!!!
/shrug
If true, this would basically mean that it would retain the best characteristics of both batteries and super capacitors, which would be pretty amazing. I'm still personally skeptical of their claims because for one, they just sound too good to be true (which means they probably are), and two, the company is very secretive and has revealed almost nothing about their technology, which screams scam to me. That said, they do have a few relatively big names backing them for funding, so I guess we'll see.
Regardless of whether or not their claims pan out, the technology of super capacitors in general is a pretty interesting topic, for me at least. I have a feeling that, for smaller portable electronic appliances like MP3 players and cell phones and stuff, super capacitors may be a good replacement for batteries in the future. Imagine being able to "flash" charge your cell phone in under a minute, and having that charge last you all day long, and imagine never having to replace your battery again thanks to the virtually unlimited number of charge cycles a capacitor can go through. These are things super capacitors can do very well. They still have many drawbacks, but I'm hoping many of these can be overcome as technology progresses.
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as for that GE kitchen... never going to happen, the problem with it is that it trys to do alot of things that it really doesn't need to do, and it doesn't do them any more efficiently than a human does, in the end a few people might have a setup like that, but not many.
I'm waiting for cybernetics, How long till I can replace my arm with a minigun? a full prosthetic body like Ghost in the shell would be pretty sweet, and really not that far off, we're close on the technical expertise to building the body itself, the cybernetic interface is the last major obstacle.
God damn why are we talking about kitchens when we can talk about AI's?
Seriously, AI research has been spinning it's wheels. It seems like "human-like" systems are something we've got well in hand, in that we can trick people into interacting with a machine like it's a human, but actual progress on sentience is really poor.
Anyways, I think decent expert machines will be useful tools in the future. "Virtual secretary" style things, not actually smart, but able to do a job for you the way you'd like it done.
Edit: and people seriously need to stop trying to "cheat" the Turing test. I can write something that passes the test. All I have to do is properly anticipate the questions and give it the knowledge needed to answer. But that has jack all to do with artificial intelligence and everything to do with my intelligence. Eliza works because another human being is tricking you by proxy, not because Eliza is any closer to sentience than your fucking toaster.
God what a waste of time that shit is. No one should be Turing Testing anything for another 50 years.
Well isn't there that AI that they are having learn things like a baby would? If I remember correctly it started off with just the bare basics, light and dark recognition, and last I heard it was able to track items, pick one out of a bunch when asked etc. I am of the personal opinion that processes like that will be our best chance at developing a true Artificial Intelligence, since what is our intelligence if not a sum of our experiences?