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2020 Vision
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by kenco.carnage
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Following a couple of articles in Word 16, I thought a few things had
been missed out and I have a few ideas of my own...
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TVs - New technology today means televisions are able to become less
bulky. Plasmatron technology has defined a new era for the humble tv.
Picture quality is enhanced by the use of plasma - gases pass over the
plasma to create different colours and the right amount of gas forms a
picture. What this also means is that the "tube" can be done away with,
enabling the depth of a tv to be about three inches, rather than a foot
or so. Televisions hanging from walls isn't that far away now. Only
problem is the price of the new technology - £11,000... which will drop
to £800 for the basic model by 2020.
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VCRs - SuperVHS will eventually take over, preceding DigitalVHS. The
new digital format will offer perfect image capture and perfect copying
features. Piracy will still be rife. Modern VCRs will offer a full
editing suite built in, providing a gui accessed by a light pen directly
on the tv or via a graphics tablet.
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LCD - Because of a startling discovery in 1995, the blue crystals of an
RGB LCD screen used in most laptops can be made at a fraction of the
price. The blue crystals were notoriously the most expensive part of
the LCD screen to manufacture, but with the cost of production slashed,
laptop PCs will be offered at the same price as a desktop PC.
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Internet 2 - The new internet will embrace the new digital fibre optic
technology, enabling almost instantaneous data transmission. By 2020,
three quarters of the worlds population will be "connected".
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PCs - Love them or loathe them, PCs will stick around for a very long
time. Intel and AMD will be in direct competition, driving other chip
manufacturers out of business due to low costs. In 2020, a
Pentium233MMX with all the trimmings will be available for only £250.
The benchmark, however, will have reached the limit of fibre optic
technology. Instead of the normal PCBs we have today, PCBs will use
fibre optics, enabling bus transfers at almost the speed of light.
Which is pretty quick. The Intel DoDecrium4 will run at a blistering
100THz. However, this technology will at first be too expensive for the
public and will be used only by government agencies and scientific
laborotories. For home use, the Intel DoDecrium 1THz will retail at
around £400, and with prepackaged deals you could probably pick up a PC
for about the same price as today for high spec PCs. Silicon Graphics
will offer 10THz machines, just to keep the ante up :)
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Wetware - every baby born will have a unique id tag implanted deep in
the brain. This will enable anyone to know where anyone is, using the
satellite global positioning system. This will undoubtedly eradicate
almost every crime but the unforseen danger of prison overcrowding would
see the introduction of the death penalty. To ensure that no-one
"steals" anothers id tag, the only way to get to a persons id tag would
be to kill them, and if they die, the id tag dies as well.
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Well, I hope that more people write in on this subject, I found it quite
fascinating to read BootBlock's and Kei's insights and I hope that my
article fires some response too. Tara chuck!
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Coloured by BootBlock/Terraform's The Word Colour Inserter
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