Archive for the ‘ Technology ’ Category

Technology – Meaning and Effects on Life

By Emmanuel Damisa

How Technology has evolved in the past

Technology is something that makes our world change in ways it hasn’t before. Science isn’t just a job, or profession. It’s something we all have deep within us. As we continue down our path of evolution, science begins to change our life in greater ways, our abilities and capabilities evolve, and our goals change. Modern science is changing the world we live in just as it has in our history, and soon things will begin to change at a more rapid pace. Take into account how it was only a few decades ago that people grew up without a telephone, without a car, and without a computer. When humans took science by the reigns and accomplished so much within decades, everyone and everything began to change for the better. These life changing moments, these inventions, these gizmo’s and gadgets are the very stepping stones that fueled us for the science we do today.

Where it’s heading today

So we’ve taken leaps through evolution throughout the last ten decades, but what about the world today and what’s going on to take us further? Maybe these inventions are more subtle now that we’re accustom to a quickly changing world, but they’re still very present. Take the recent production of the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPad. They were both so life changing, so powerful, that other companies started to follow Apple and it has started a race to the top. Now businesses are fighting to produce the next best copycat, or the next better device that rivals Apple’s products.

Read more

Technology in the Year 2020

By G Perna

Imagine this for a second. The year is 2020 and you walk into an office, similar yet different to the one you may be in right now. Structurally, the features are similar to your 2009 office, there’s a desk, a chair and a window with a view. Yet, there are noticeable differences. Gone is your clunky PC. The telephone is also nowhere to be seen. Books? Nope. Newspapers? Magazines? Nope. Nope. Instead, using a wearable device on your finger, you conjure up a hologram of a blank screen above your desk.

“Computer on,” you state. Appearing before you is a virtual computer. You use voice demand technology to bring up documents, email your friends, write reports and check stocks on the internet. Then you decide to read a copy of the January 2020 issue of Exec Digital and relax. Welcome to the not so distant future.

WEARABLE COMPUTER

The above scenario is an idealistic view of the future created from the mind of a 23-year old science-fiction fan (yours truly). While predicting future technology is never an exact science, I went to the minds of people who might have an idea of what technology might look like in 10 years.

While my potential technology may be a bit idyllic, it is not far off from MIT’s Wear Ur World. The WUW is a perfect example of potential future technology, very much inspiring my own tale. Developed by the MIT Media Lab and simply known as ‘Sixth Sense’, the wearer uses a small projector, a webcam and a mobile phone, ultimately allowing you to turn any flat surface into a computer.

Using hand gestures, it can do anything from tell the time to make a phone call. (For example, drawing a circle will prompt the WUW to show a clock). To get an idea of WUW, just imagine Tom Cruise using the Standard User Interface in Minority Report. Of course, WUW is a bit more high-tech than Cruise’s SUI.

Smaller, faster and much more efficient is very much the ideal of tomorrow’s computers, as is mobility. A number of industry experts say the idea of increased mobility technology is nearly certain in 10 years. A report from Pew Internet Research polling 1,000 technology execs indicates by the year 2020, mobile technology will be our main access for the internet. Furthermore, the same experts say most communications appliances will come with voice-demand technology.

Read more