Wired's Wish List For 2013 349
jpt.d writes "Wired has a nice article on what they wish to be for 2013. It is not too far fetched either! My personal favorite is the roll up television screen made of light-emitting-polymer. How about another Apple gadget? Their first item is an iPhone bracelet, including the functionality of a 'PDA, wireless Internet, a mini iPod, and, of course, a phone.' Notice the Apple logo in the picture." I'd settle for ubiquitous unmetered wireless network access.
April 2003 (Score:3, Funny)
X^2 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:X^2 (Score:3, Funny)
"Yeah, I was purely organic, and it was alright. I was weak though, and I needed rest. And then I switched, to Apple cyborging. Then and there I was benching 1000 lbs, I could run forever, and I could do any activities without error. The only feedback is I can't go out in the rain. But oh well, I never liked the rain anyways. And at least I don't get the blue screen of death flashing in front of my eyes like those windows cyborgs!" Apple.com/switch
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Utility Run Internet Access (Score:5, Interesting)
Let the gov't run the backbones.
Re:Utility Run Internet Access (Score:2, Interesting)
Companies like Sprint do not artificially limit bandwidth. Have you ever price a T3 that crosses a state line? The high cost of long-distance data lines is most of the cost of bandwidth. As long as the Bell monopolies can charge huge prices and states can add huge taxes, bandwidth will remain expensive.
Shurely Shome Mishtake (Score:4, Insightful)
Net access is a commodity already - pretty soon it will be a utility in the same way petrol stations are. Think petrol stations - not roads. I dont have to sign an exclusive lock in 12 month deal with shell to fill up my tank - and soon enough I wont have to sign up to a long deal for access either - hopefully.
The question is - is 2013 soon!!!
Re:Shurely Shome Mishtake (Score:2, Insightful)
I would think though, that by adding more pipes throught the U.S., would just create more tech jobs and that internet would eventually come to the point where phone service is now, that companies actually start to compete over high-speed lines (in
yes, your mistake (Score:4, Interesting)
All the time. For example, Medicare/Medicaid is far more efficient than just about any privately run health plan, and government research is highly efficient and has been responsible for most of the real innovations over the last 50 years.
When it comes to big organizations and big projects, the government works very well. The real question is: what big private company has been better, cheaper, or quicker than the government? Enron? IBM? AT&T? Don't make me laugh. Big corporations are command economies but without the transparency and checks-and-balances of governments, and the often do their business free of they kind of competitive pressures that make markets efficient.
I am all for a private sector and free markets in telecommunications. The trouble is that we don't have it. And if the choice is between unregulated inefficient corporate behemoths and public utilities or strongly regulated private utilities, the latter is much preferable and likely to be more efficient.
Re:yes, your mistake (Score:2)
The government has one advantage that (most) corporations cannot match: a near-perfect credit rating. It can take on massive debt, secured not on existing collateral but future taxation. That's why it can afford to take on large projects.
As to your question, it cannot be answered because the lines are too blurred. Whe
Re:yes, your mistake (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh boy, there speaks someone who has never worked for a Government doing research.
Really, you seriously think so? Want to back that up with some specific cases, I really doubt that is the case.
Al.The Internet (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:yes, your mistake (Score:2)
Oh boy, there speaks someone who has never worked for a large company doing research. In the end, it's not the funding source, it's the size that makes it suck. And big industry is every bit as sucky with respect to efficiency as is government.
Re:yes, your mistake (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, I have. As have many graduate students.
Really, you seriously think so? Want to back that up with some specific cases, I really doubt that is the case.
The Internet, most basic computer science research, a large fraction of medical and drug development, most of the results in basic physics, etc. A lot of those, are, of course, in collaboration with industry, but the projects are selected and financed by the US government through institutes like (D)ARPA and NIH.
Re:Utility Run Internet Access (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Utility Run Internet Access (Score:2, Interesting)
OK, I'll provide you with unlimited internet access, all the bandwith you can handle. All you need to do is pay the 100 unionized (read: expensive) workers and 10 internet backbone qualified (read: very expensive) techs it will take to build and maintain the connection.
Oh yeah, don't forget, if you want your traffic to leave my network you have to pay the backbones that carry your data to its destination.
Or, you could just quit whining about something you know nothing about and continue paying the $40 a m
By the year 2013, I want (Score:2)
1)not to deal with the scourge of spam as we do today. By that time, we will have better email systems. 2)An alarm clock that had a sensor(infra-red) that would check if I am out of my bed and would continue to ring until I got up even after hitting the snooze button.
3)Really cool dual-headed displays for PDA's and other electronic devices. 4)Sale of only flat panel displays to be allowed. CRT displays should be banned.
5)The present ratio of desktop:laptop 70:30 should be reversed. 6)AMD to have
Re:By the year 2013, I want (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want a LCD for a desktop that's used for anything besides text.
Re:By the year 2013, I want (Score:3, Insightful)
Hear, hear!
I can't belive my ears when I hear a salesperson pitching an LCD as a gaming display, and I can't believe my eyes when the sheep actually LOOKS at the LSD-flashback-inducing thing, nods, and shells out the $700.
Some people would mortgage their house for razorblade underwear if someone told them it looked sexy.
Re:Utility Run Internet Access (Score:3, Informative)
The free market cannot, by strict profit motivation, fiber up the nation. Corporate nature will go for maximum profit for minimum rollout costs -- which is why power grids and phone companies are regulated monopolies. And those regulated businesses do just fine, and everyone gets electricity and
Internet access (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Internet access (Score:2)
apple (Score:4, Funny)
instead of using "sound recognition technology (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh.
Re:instead of using "sound recognition technology (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:instead of using "sound recognition technology (Score:4, Funny)
Robot Slave (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Robot Slave (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, wheres the AI programs that can run errands for me, like pay the bills online, record my TV shows, remind me about important dates. Oh, an AI lawyer and account would be nice too.
The cars that can drive themselves, and let me read a book on the way to work.
With dual incomes becoming the norm just to live in the USA, where are the time saving robot/AI programs to give us more time to spend with the family. Work a ten hour day, commute for 2 hours, sleep for 8, doesnt leave much time to eat dinner with the family and and wind down from work.
Re:Robot Slave (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, I've got an 'AI system' which records TV shows for me - even suggests new shows it thinks I may like, based on what I've recorded before. It's called TiVo [tivo.com]. And I've got an 'AI system' which reminds me about important dates. It's called a web calendar [utexas.edu]. Oh, and apart from a very small number of bills, I pay everythin
Re:Robot Slave (Score:2)
There is a chain of restaurants in London called Yo! in which there are robots that bring you beer. And it could be argued that dishwashers, washing machines and microwaves are "robot servants".
Also, wheres the AI programs that can run errands for me, like pay the bills online, record my TV shows, remind me about important dates.
Direct debit, Sky+/TiVo and Outlook.
With dual incomes becoming the norm just to live in
Re:Robot Slave (Score:3, Interesting)
I want my - (Score:4, Funny)
- flying car, dammit!
Earplugs (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Earplugs (Score:2)
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Re:Earplugs (Score:2, Interesting)
Being an acual Dave Matthews Band fan I would like this for the bootlegs though, screeming teenage girls are much more fun when you're dancing with them, but are an unwanted aspect of bootleg recordings.
tell ya what (Score:2)
Seen on t-shirt at the side gate NO HEAD...NO BACKSTAGE
Re:Earplugs (Score:5, Funny)
All I want by 2013... (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:All I want by 2013... (Score:2)
An alternative to paper-magazines (Score:5, Interesting)
I mean, yes, it would be tragic for those journalistic egos to be deflated by the fact that Joe-shmoe could now publish his thought and be judged based on the quality of work alone, rather than his ability to schmoose editors and such-like.
But either way, I am sure that a forward-thinking publication such as Wired News would certainly advocate publication over such a system, and would quickly realize the futility of wasteful and ugly paper-based approaches.
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Re:An alternative to paper-magazines (Score:4, Funny)
But I don't think Joe Schmoe would be ready to use that yet; you're way ahead of time, Sanity!
Where are the flying cars? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Where are the flying cars? (Score:2)
That said, before flying cars, we need some more efficient public ground transportation, such as hop on hop off light rail networks in major cities. Another venture we're considering.
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Duke Nukem Forever... (Score:5, Funny)
What Wired will really get... (Score:5, Funny)
Combination devices... (Score:5, Interesting)
These two things work against each other.
The display on my phone is not important (especially if I can use it as a simple modem for my PDA), but the button size is. I do not want a combination PDA and phone (think Treo and others) since I want a small phone (since I carry that on me at all times) and will take a somewhat larger PDA since I can choose to carry that or not.
So I want a small display phone with non-small buttons.
I want a PDA with a large color display (I currently have at Clie 665c to give an example).
I want a small watch with small buttons (I have a Nike Triax 42)
I want a small camera with a decent display and good optics (I have a Canon S200)
I want a MP3 player with a decent display and small size (I have an iPod)
One thing I really want is a Bluetooth-like personal network. If I pull out my PDA, I want it to sense my cell phone in my pocket and use it to connect to the internet. I want my PDA to recognize my camera and download pictures from that. if I have a laptop with me, I want it to do the same thing.
So available wireless internet is one thing, but I would rather have workable, wireless personal networks (meaning on my body).
Even better would be the ability to have a neetworked storage device somewhere (wallet, etc) that could work as a networked storage device for everything else I am carrying at once. No more carrying a 10gig iPod, a PDA with a 128meg MemoryStick and a camera with a 128meg CompacFlash card. Ideally the iPod would simply be used as storage by all devices without wires.
This would allow easy modularity without trying to pack everything into once device.
[If someone tries to patent this idea in the future, I suppose my idea cannot be used as prior art. I think I have to actually implement the idea, right? Any non-lawyers out there want to comment?]
Possible iPhone Interaction Methods (Score:4, Interesting)
In 10 years Apple (or someone else) might be ready to pioneer the holographic interface [slashdot.org] to work with this iPhone.
Possible Output Methods
Possible Input Methods
So in closing... everyone complaining about the size of the iPhone being to small to see anything on, is being short sighted.
Rod!
Re:Possible iPhone Interaction Methods (Score:3, Interesting)
Here's a possibility you missed: retractible touchscreens. A button on the watch could cause four 1x1 screens to extend in all directions, giving you a plus-shaped pad.
You could fit four buttons on each section and they'd be large enough to easily press with your fingers. For a phone, you'd need 12 buttons, which would be 3 panels. That'd leave enough room for a 2x1 display, which seems pretty decent. In the mp3-player mode, you'd need maybe 8 buttons, giving you a 1x3 playlist. A PDA could give you 4 but
Drawing on your retina makes a lot of sence (Score:3, Interesting)
But it's not just for athletes. Technology like that is already being used in medicine (look up stuff while you operate), and I believe that when you couple it with GPS navigation you could do way cool navigational aids (think drawing arrows on the ground, you just follow).
I've been waiting for this a long time already... why can't it be ready now?
How about.... (Score:5, Funny)
Pets that eat poop instead of make it (Thus creating a circle of life between real and artificial pets.)
A 300 GHz computer with 64 GB of RAM that won't skip or delay even if it wanted to.
Reassurance that 1 term of a Bush in charge and bad economic times can equate to 2 terms of some other guy in charge for 2 terms and good economic times, and an occasional scandal that keeps things interesting.....
Oh yeah, world peace and smell-o-vision.
hey now (Score:4, Funny)
Moore's Law. (Score:5, Funny)
I think Moore's law will put you around 1.5THz in 2013.
But your system will still skip and delay because you'll be running Windows 2013.
Re:Moore's Law. (Score:2)
Don't hold your breath (Score:4, Interesting)
OK, Internet is a bigger BBS, my modem is 4x faster I've got a 17" monitor and my PC is 50x faster.
In ten years expect things will remain much the same but bigger again. Maybe I'll surf Internet2 at 250k, have a 24" monitor? My PC may even run at 20GHz
iPhone user interface (Score:4, Funny)
Also how do you speak? Do you have to shout at the braclet or will you have to hold it up to your ear and look like a prat? OK it does have an earphone but its still a fun image
Rus
Re:iPhone user interface (Score:3, Informative)
What the iPhone i
Re:iPhone user interface (Score:2)
Man, you need a PocketPC/Phone.
It's a:
- Pocket PC, the 2nd most popular PDA on the planet
- GSM phone
- MP3/WMA/WMV player, with an SD memory slot
Not quite as cool as a phone on your writst, but much easier than carrying both a phone and PDA.
Re:iPhone user interface (Score:2)
Seriously, the problem isn't so much the size of the thing but the fact that the form size required fot both equipment and a good interface is still too large to be wristwatch-carryable. Having to put the device in your pocket means that the device is dependant on what you wear having pockets (or a proper belt for the belt clip, for that matter). The interface is what's preventing this from happenin
OS X in 2013?! (Score:2, Funny)
Hopefully (Score:5, Insightful)
Sigh..
Re:Hopefully (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hopefully (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hopefully (Score:2, Interesting)
-Buying SUVs supports terrorism in a BIG way since those gas guzzling mosters put money in the hands of the criminals doing horrible things worldwide. If they were true patriots, they wou
Re:Hopefully (Score:2)
They can still nuke us off the planet, though - that's (purportedly) why we're going to war. If we weren't buying their oil, they might be even more likely to do something that could otherwise damage business relations.
And of course we can't just stop the auto industry. We can make them want to change, or we can pay Congress to force them to change. Except that they're busy
Re:Hopefully (Score:2)
1) I have a Jeep Wrangler. I've had it since 1995; it's the 3rd one i've owned.
2) It's considered a SUV, but it gets in excess of 30MPG.
3)I don't live in a City. I live some place with weather, and marginal roads.
4)On occasion, I go places that are even LESS city, and have even MORE marginal roads.
5) I would not object, whatsoever, to a hydrogen power plant, or similar technology, as long as I can reasonably USE it. I doubt very much anyone else would either.
wrap-around tv is already here (Score:3, Interesting)
isn't history supposed to be repeating itself? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:isn't history supposed to be repeating itself? (Score:2)
Re:isn't history supposed to be repeating itself? (Score:2)
self-darkening contacts won't work (Score:5, Insightful)
Old and bitter (Score:5, Insightful)
1) A mobile phone that works properly;
2) Digital TV that works properly;
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
4) Good health;
5) Peace and quiet.
I must be getting old before my time.
Now where's my cocoa?...
Re:Old and bitter (Score:4, Insightful)
1) A mobile phone that works properly;
Our mobile phones work flawlessly for at least 10 years now. 100% coverage and full interoperability between the diferent providers. And of course SMS and MMS.
2) Digital TV that works properly;
I'm using digital TV for at least 5 years now. It is fully standarized and works flawlessly including an electronic program guide on all channels.
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
You can get DSL nearly everywhere in Germany, and the drivers while not exactly works of art work quite well. I prefer hardware routers with buildin modems anyhow e.g. Draytek Routers [draytek.de]
4) Good health;
Well our health service is quite exellent.
5) Peace and quiet.
No problem either.
Re:Old and bitter (Score:4, Insightful)
As someone who moved from the US to Germany, I feel I need to point out a few things about your claims. Don't get me wrong, I like living here, but flawless it's not.
1) A mobile phone that works properly;
Our mobile phones work flawlessly for at least 10 years now. 100% coverage and full interoperability between the diferent providers. And of course SMS and MMS.
And you pay out the ass for it. Phone service here is ridiculously expensive compared to that of the US. For 30$ a month in the US you can call anyone anywhere for some huge amount of minutes (when I was there it'd by you 2000 minutes) compared to here where you get charged extra when you call someone on a different provider. Hardly anyone uses text messages there because it's so damn cheap to just call the person and have a quick conversation. This carries over into the normal market here where deutsche telekom bends you over the desk every chance they get, compared to the US where *gasp* local calls are free.
2) Digital TV that works properly;
I'm using digital TV for at least 5 years now. It is fully standarized and works flawlessly including an electronic program guide on all channels.
I haven't really seen much digital tv here, perhaps because it's not very widespread, or perhaps it's so widespread that nobody notices it. Maybe I even have it because I've got the teletext electronic program guide you're talking about (which sucks btw-looks like it was written for the Atari without the fun and even worse 'playability' even though there are a lot more buttons on a remote than the original joystick). If this qualifies me as a digital cable subscriber, I can tell you that it isn't flawless. Several of my channels have varying degrees of fuzziness (snow) at varying times throughout the day.
3) A DSL modem where the drivers have not been coded by sadists;
You can get DSL nearly everywhere in Germany, and the drivers while not exactly works of art work quite well. I prefer hardware routers with buildin modems anyhow e.g. Draytek Routers [draytek.de]
The original poster was complaining about the quality of DSL modems, not the availability. I agree that it's available here, but it's still expensive in my opinion (55$ for 1.5 down, but only up to 5000MB, and then you start paying by the MB), thank you Deutsche Telekom. The quality of modems shouldn't really be limited by geography, so I'll just move on to the next point.
4) Good health;
Well our health service is quite exellent.
For how long? The social system here is almost to the point of no return. Granted, a large majority of the problem isn't directly related to the health care, but mostly due to unemployed people taking advantage of the system. I pay roughly 50% in taxes so people can sit around on their couch and watch TV. I support health care and wouldn't mind if that was the only place that the money was spent, but in the future the Germany economy and social system as a whole will take it on the chin. The population here is getting smaller which could result into a collapse, as the base of the pyramid gets smaller than the top.
5) Peace and quiet.
No problem either.
I agree with this. If you want peace and quiet, this is the place to come. Don't even think about going shopping after after 8pm during the week, 4pm on Saturday or at all on Sunday. Everything's dead because all the stores are closed, so peace and quiet is not a problem, but not very convenient.
I have a few other problems with this country as well, but there are a lot positive aspects too (good beer, driving as fast as you want on the autobahn-2 things not to be done together, btw). I enjoy the country on the whole and plan to stay another 2 years or so, but I just figured if the original poster was actually going to consider moving to Germany, he should get both sides.
Re:excellent health service (Score:2)
though I have second thoughts about MY TAX DOLLARS (erm, euros) funding it.
Just think of that part of the taxes as mandatory health insurance
And don't forget that in the US the insurance companies and private hospitals have to earn a profit. With government health care funded through taxes that's not an additional cost for you
Paper (Score:4, Interesting)
But why paper? Because, unlike any kind of polymers that we'll know of in the near future, paper is cheap as heck. Paper also provides excellent contrast and is pleasant to read off. Not to mention the ability to draw stuff on top of it with a regular pen.
I would personally not be surprised if paper-based computer displays rule the earth in ten years.
Re:Paper (Score:2)
I'll show you a vision of the future (Score:4, Funny)
Apple? 2013? (Score:4, Funny)
where are the enabling technologies from? (Score:3, Insightful)
And I don't actually foresee all those things coming about so fast anyway. Small OLED screens will hopefully be widespread in 10 years, but they'll still be expensive as wall covering. Noise cancelation of non-periodic signals is hard. And the market for mood-ring-contact-lenses seems even smaller than the market for mood rings.
Two words... (Score:3, Funny)
Hold up. (Score:2)
Here's what I'd like to see by 2013 (Score:2)
2. Alternate fuel technology which is less polluting
3. US stops deterring democracy in the third world
My wish list for the world 2013 (Score:5, Interesting)
2) A method of world governance that rids us of rogue states that persecute their own populations (Saddam, North Korea et al) and also curbs rogue states with semi-democratically elected leaders who want to attack other states on dodgy pretexts (GWB I'm looking at you)
3) An end to the tech slump, sustained growth in IT sectors, more coding jobs for me!
4) Moore's observation to continue to hold true, more better toys getting cheaper.
5) Following on from that, widespread internet rollouts in the third world. The street finds it's own uses for technology, and the villages will find their own uses for information and commication.
6) Open source software to keep getting better, no more constrictive tech monopolies, and end to DVD region coding and hard crypto staying legal.
Re:My wish list for the world 2013 (Score:2)
There are already several treatments for HIV and the symptoms of AIDS that are quite cheap - that is, cheap to produce. However most (but not all [wangonet.org]) of the western pharmaceutical companies refuse to license them at discounted rates because they're such a cash cow. Which means that tens of millions are facing death simply because drugs company execs are unwilling to sacrifice their bottom lines.
Which is sickening.
Some links: South Africa fig [guardian.co.uk]
Re:My wish list for the world 2013 (Score:2)
nevirapine et all, as I understand it, can supress the effects of HIV, perhaps even indefinitely. However they do not cure the disease, which will resume when treatment is stopped.
I'm not a medical expert, but my "cure" I was envisaging a therapy that would end in the patient being HIV free with no ongoing treatment. Similarly, a "vacine" would prevent a person from infection. A person on Nevirapine can still tran
Re:My wish list for the world 2013 (Score:3, Funny)
That problem will be solved by 2013. Or 2016 at the latest. It's called "patented".
Unli
Contradiction? (Score:3, Insightful)
This contains everything that seems to be wrong with people's concerns about war -- please explain it if I'm misunderstanding. You seem to believe that Iraq is a rogue state, the gov't does slaughter its own population, and that it would be generally a better world should Saddam et. al. be usurped.
Bu
Gooracle (Score:2)
Imagine if google news don't return several link to the "same topic" article, but an article of their own, objetive, something made taking in account what say every source and makes its own version. And then, imagine that at internet level, not just for news (of course, giving they own version and links to the s
Hopefully the end of SMTP to reduce spam (Score:3, Insightful)
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Contacts? (Score:3, Interesting)
Contacts require:
- Prescription fitting (you definately should see an opthamologist before wearing them)
- Careful application
- Rewetting in dry climates
- Cleaning/disposal
Sunglasses will always be cheaper than sunglass-contacts because of those reasons.
The Goggles (Score:2, Interesting)
Dick Tracy, cultural meme (Score:2)
Wrap-around television... (Score:2, Interesting)
How about... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Whoopee... (Score:4, Interesting)
I also noticed a PC in the dumpster one time but I decided to pass on thatt one.
Actually . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Were is my... (Score:2)
Re:First Prime Factorization Post (Score:2, Offtopic)
{
if (!is_prime(num))
err(1, "Number is not prime");
printf("Factors of %d: 1 %d\n", num, num);
}
Re:First Prime Factorization Post (Score:2)
int factor_prime(int_num)
{
assert(is_prime(num));
return num;
}
And since we know there will be only one factor we can simply return it. (Your function should have the more appropriate name print_prime_factors_of_prime() ). Using inlining and a good optimizer that eliminates unnessesary subexpressions the implementation above should be incredibly fast, when compiled for