Have you heard? there's a new apple

they call it the IPad. As well as a new breed of gadget. bigger than a smart phone, but more portable than laptop with a 10 hour battery life. What about the memory space you ask? It has a range of 16, 32, and 64 GB of internal memory. I'm not sure about you, but that sounds fairly like an over-sized IPhone. Now I say IPhone because if you pay a monthly fee, you can access the internet and call your friends, instead of bashing it, I will say its worth it because you can get extra memory (online of course) between 250 GB and unlimited, dependant on of course, how much you want spend. They claim it not to just be nothing more than an over-sized IPhone but it does pretty much the same thing! Though after reading about it and having my IPod stolen only a week ago, I'll probably buy it when it hits shelves in March. The price of it really is whats really making me consider it. For less than $900 you can get this tablet with At & T. If you look at the hp touch pc, costing $1500, and it's tablet laptop at $1200, I say it's worth the investment.
Just think about it.

The matrix entry

How had the movie 'The Matrix' affected how we've developed in technology? Two words, Virtual Reality. We live off of computers, so why can't we live in one? Today, there are so many different virtual worlds, that so many people spend countless hours playing. We don't live in the real world, and to some, it doesn't exist at all. We live on, off, and through our computers. 'The Matrix' isn't so far off where we are in the world. And the whole cell phone that once amazed everyone, is so old and obsolete, no self-respecting teenager would be caught dead with it. We're starting to blow past what they came out with. We're advancing at an incredible pace, that can either be viewed as a good thing, or a bad thing.
It's a good thing because then we can better understand our world, as well better communicate with those around it. It's a bad thing because, we'll fat, lazy, constantly run on energy drinks, and if our computer crashes, it seems like the end of the world, which really, it's about making sure you have everything backed up, and taking it in to get it fixed. NO BIG DEAL! That, and the fact that if we are all fluent in tech talk, then hacking into another computer, stealing everything that person has, and crashing it beyond repair is as simple as breathing.

And that's my opinion.

How does Sci-Fi effect how we develope technology?

The Sci-fi film that I chose is Star trek. Though, we don't have to ability to travel @ warp speed, and we can't beam ourselves down to planets, we're working on it. Humans have always loved space travel, we've always wanted to be a apart of it, always will. We have entire government programs dedicated to developing space shuttles, and trying to make them more efficient so we can sustain life and go further and deeper into space. Though, I'm really hoping there isn't any creepy aliens who are hell-bent and taking over the universe, there may be. We're working on jet packs, we have them made, but they're so big. we could never really use them in space, well, we could, because of the whole weightlessness of it all, but still, the more compact, the better. I think, when we find/create red matter, there's going to be a huge controversy because of who gets to use it, and how it's used, so we're going to need to live in space, especially if a country decided to red-matter another country. I honestly think that some scientist, somewhere, who has gone completely mad, has attempted to make red-matter based on the new star trek movie. Good luck to him.

My favorite artical....

My favourite article/video is 'Sixth Sense'. Though, it would be insanely problematic with identity theft and cheating in class, it would seriously make everything easier, and we wouldn't need to use several devices to do what needs to be done. We make a box with our fingers, it takes a picture. We could open up google as soon as we have a question. we can copy and paste things straight out of a book. With this technology, we wouldn't need laptops, or digital cameras, or any serious hard wear we would just need that little camera/projector, and it's all good.
This is my favourite article/video because it shows that all it takes is a simple idea, a little time and money, than you have something amazing that soon, everyone in the world is going to want. We are moving forward in the world, gaining momentum as we go.

past, present and futer trends

Past Technology:

We call them Dinosaurs. Mostly because they're old, but also because they're an eye sore. They're old and chunky, and above of ugly. The they I talk about are the computers that come out several decades ago, and the cell phones that came out about one and a half decades ago. I'm also talking about the Internet, Internet 1.0. The heinously slow, and boring Internet that could only be used for school. The one where only doctors, and universities could make posts. Sure everything got better, and faster, but where are we now?

Present Technology:

We got slimmer, and better looking, that's for sure. We have Mac book Airs, and phones that are smaller than credit cards. We have smart phones that can do everything you could ever want. You can send emails to any one at any time, or, for a more immediate response, you send them a text. You can watch videos and TV shows, listen to music. pretty much everything, with a touch of a button, or it you have a touch screen, a touch of an icon. There's a constant battle between companies to have the better, faster, sexier, phone. The greatest battle, The I-phone vs the Palm pre, but it's also the I-phone vs blackberry. I have one thing to say to this, THE I-PHONE WILL NEVER LOOSE. Every time the other phone companies think they have it, BAM the i-phone gets a new app. And you know what, these app are made pretty much for free, but it'll cost you if you want it. Sure, phones are better overall, the same with computers, but do you know what got the major overhaul? The Internet. We moved from Internet 1.0, which was sluggish, and only used for school work. Now we have this crazy thing, called Internet 2.0. Social, it's all about the user. Social networks galore, I mean, this blog is a form of social networking, Face book, is the ultimate social networking, everyone has it, that's how people keep in touch with old friends. "Oh, hey, you want to come to the concert?" "Yeah, just face book me the details." We use a URL as a verb. And, because so many people have it, it has been debated whether or not that it should be allowed in school. It would enable for teachers to keep in touch with their students to make sure they understand the material being taught, you could have entire school clubs, like a leadership tea, all as one face book group. And now, you can get a court order over Twitter. It's all about the user with Internet 2.0. The youth have grown up around computers, and around smart phones, and around the Internet. It's come to the point where it seems like the youth could not, and probably would not live with out, if given the choice.

Future Technology:

It's going to be extremely thin, fast, wireless, and most importantly, fast. We aren't going to have to give google exactly what we're looking for anymore, we can just type in something that has to do with what we're looking for, ta-DA we found it. It's going to be about syntax, what we mean when we type something, and not exactly what you said. I think we're going to go more into AI as well, like with the asimo and how he can learn to recognize items, just as a child would. We're moving to a place where we're going to get machines to do all our work for us, and, just like in Wall-E we're all going to get really, really fat. It'll be fun though, the crazy movies, but instead of watching them, we'll be in them, virtually, and it'll be interactive. And the crazy graphics that we can create, soon, we won't need actors.