[extropy-chat] Predictions about the future of technology

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/10/06, Jonathan Despres <jonano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2005 We are approaching the dark ages point, when the rate of
> innovation is the same as it was during the Dark Ages. We'll reach
> that in 2024. (Jonathan Huebner)
>
> 2005 Within five years, every banking customer will have a banking
> terminal in their pocket, drawing on the mainframe. (Arif Mohamed)


Muggers will love that.


> 2004 We're going to have computers, not too long from now, that don't
> have screens and where the information is presented as a hologram in
> the air above a keyboard. (Grant Evans)


LOL!

2004 Ten years out you can almost think of hardware as being free. (Bill
> Gates)


More LOL!
Heard that one first around 1990


> 2004 Off-shoring is just another management fad and we're going to see
> it blow over. (Eric Raymond)


Just as soon as China and India price themselves out of the market.


Dirk
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