mutesinger
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« on: July 08, 2007, 08:35:56 AM » |
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...Today we see a computer as something that we sit down at a desk to use. We see it as a machine with a monitor, keyboard and a case.
The computers of tomorrow won't be on top of desks, and they most likely won't have a monitor, keyboard and case. But most interestingly of all, we may stop thinking of computers simply as machines.
As the future comes, the definition of a computer will rapidly change. The computer itself, will disappear. Watches, microwaves, and even doors will be computers. They will have the ability to be controlled from anywhere in the house. Any display that is. We will be able to set the VCRs, or their substitutes to record our favorite show by selecting the machine from the display in the bathroom. Monitors will hang around the house on walls. They will be used for TV, for the Internet and to control everything in the house. They will be used for all our shopping, and for all of our phone calls. Internet, TV, stereo, and telephone, all will be combined in one. One server in each house will control everything. This process has actually started. Any display will allow the user to surf the Net, watch a TV program or make a phone call. In future, there will be just one network. Houses will be connected by the fastest means possible, whether by satellite, cable lines or fiber optic cables. Through this connection will travel everything.
The idea of sitting down and using a computer will be obsolete. It will be almost impossible not to use a computer. Whether we want to lock a door, surf the Net, or play our favorite song, everything will take place through a display or a voice activated control.
The computer of tomorrow will be very different from that of today, but the advances will only make things better for us - the users. We obviously failed to mention many things that will change and we will prove, probably prove wrong on others. This is simply how we see it now. Only the future will show us the true computer of tomorrow.
Similarly, one of the biggest changes in the future won't be in what we are seeing on computer monitors, but in the monitors themselves. Monitors today can weigh up to 50 pounds, and take up a considerable amount of desk space. This is the area where the monitors of the future will amaze us. They will be inches thick and provide picture quality better than anything attainable now.† Companies have already released liquid crystal displays (LCD) though the prices remain very high. LCD monitors do not require tubes, the main space taker in a CRT display.†Instead LCD monitors work by passing a current through an electrically active substance. These new monitors are just inches thick.
Once the prices lower, the average user will have access to flat panel displays. The entire computing experience will be redefined as monitors hang on the wall instead of sitting on a desk. It will be possible to put a monitor in the middle of a room, and put the computer itself somewhere else.
Regardless of the monitor technology that takes over, the monitors of the future will be smaller, and the picture quality will be better. And as the displays change, so will our whole concept of computing.
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