TR Picks 10 Emerging Technologies of 08 76
arktemplar suggests Technology Review for their annual list of 10 emerging technologies that the editors believe will be particularly important over the next few years. Quoting: "This is work ready to emerge from the lab, in a broad range of areas: energy, computer hardware and software, biological imaging, social interactions. Two of the technologies — cellulolytic enzymes and atomic magnetometers — are efforts by leading scientists to solve critical problems, while five — surprise modeling, connectomics, probabilistic CMOS, reality mining, and offline Web applications — represent whole new ways of looking at problems. And three — graphene transistors, nanoradio, and wireless power — are amazing feats of engineering that have created something entirely new."
What's old is new again (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite. (Score:3, Funny)
Encrypted Trunking (Score:5, Funny)
I'm liking where this could take encrypted trunking systems.
Holy Buzzowrds, Batman. (Score:5, Funny)
Surprise modeling?
Connectomics?
Reality mining?
Nanoradio?
You gotta be freakin' kidding me.
Re:Holy Buzzowrds, Batman. (Score:5, Funny)
Look, you may not understand surprise modelling, but there is a whole subculture dedicated to it.
http://www.projectvoyeur.com/ [projectvoyeur.com]
http://www.voyeurweb.com/ [voyeurweb.com]
Just to name a few!
Re:Top 10? (Score:3, Funny)
Reality mining (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently, out there in the so-called "real world" -- you know, the place where the lights are only on for half the day and the heat doesn't work at night -- there's stuff to be found. Valuable stuff like gold, silver, copper, coal, diamonds... and you can just dig a hole to get access to it.
Now you might be wondering why it's called "reality mining" and not "hole digging". Well, it's not quite as easy as I made it sound. You can't just dig any old place, you have to know where to look. And you can't just use a shovel; most of the time you need some heavy duty equipment. You have to sort through all the possible places to dig, filter that information, and somehow figure out which places are more likely to have the stuff you're looking for, and which approaches will work best to get it out. So it's kind of like data mining, but you're using it to get something in the real world.
It's fun, profitable, and best of all: you get to wear a hat with a light on it! Reality mining is the future, folks. Better get on the bandwagon while there's still room.
Re:I agree with your point but (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Holy Buzzowrds, Batman. (Score:5, Funny)
Thank god I don't have a job.
It seems to be missing something (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My favorite. (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot flying car [moller.com](Henry Ford said it would happen!), personal pneumatic transportation [wikipedia.org], cure for baldness [whiteoak.org], miniskirt [wikipedia.org], and communication with animals. [wfmu.org]
Re:Cellulolytic Enzymes = Goodbye Corn Ethanol (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It seems to be missing something (Score:2, Funny)
Obvious new error message (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OK, let's see what we have here (Score:3, Funny)
And George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1948 and first published in 1949, just so you know I'm just joking and not clueless.