What does a person need to survive in an internet age of today?

-A Screen
-A Phone
-An input process
-Content

Solution- (Distant Future)-

An implant, or small chip that syncs with your actual brain. What? are you crazy? ripping the matrix? no… let me explain.

-A Screen-
What is better than having a screen? not having one, but using your eyes as a desktop. Basically a “HUD” interface simulated by chip and processed through to your brain like sound waves.

-A phone- or Voice communication-
This can be easily removed where the chip can read your thoughts and actually broadcast your thoughts in your own idea of your voice to others. By simply thinking… “brian, are you available?” he can then thought reply.

When this type of technology is available, you should be able to think of the person, and the person’s thought or smell, or idea will be linked to a human mac address.

Input Process-
No more carpel tunnel, your thoughts will be the input for data as well as voice.

Content-
Could really be anything that is obtainable over the internet, of course if you have access to it.

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I know the whole idea sounds crazy, but that is where i think it will be headed. People will be computers and will store data in their own heads…. privacy issues are always a concern.

Also when the technology gets to this level, scientists will be able to turn on other parts of the brain that have been dormant in mankind. Possible use it for more storage space.

Think, Johnny Nuemonic.
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Lately,

We have seen the quick departure of Pocket PC’s and Palm’s that do not have phones in them. They were quickly buried into a convergence device known as the smartphone.

What does a person need to survive in an internet age of today?

-A Screen
-A Phone
-An input process
-Content

Solution- (Distant Future)-

An implant, or small chip that syncs with your actual brain. What? are you crazy? ripping the matrix? no… let me explain.

-A Screen-
What is better than having a screen? not having one, but using your eyes as a desktop. Basically a “HUD” interface simulated by chip and processed through to your brain like sound waves.

-A phone- or Voice communication-
This can be easily removed where the chip can read your thoughts and actually broadcast your thoughts in your own idea of your voice to others. By simply thinking… “brian, are you available?” he can then thought reply.

When this type of technology is available, you should be able to think of the person, and the person’s thought or smell, or idea will be linked to a human mac address.

Input Process-
No more carpel tunnel, your thoughts will be the input for data as well as voice.

Content-
Could really be anything that is obtainable over the internet, of course if you have access to it.

—-
I know the whole idea sounds crazy, but that is where i think it will be headed. People will be computers and will store data in their own heads…. privacy issues are always a concern.

Also when the technology gets to this level, scientists will be able to turn on other parts of the brain that have been dormant in mankind. Possible use it for more storage space.

Think, Johnny Nuemonic.
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Lately,

We have seen the quick departure of Pocket PC’s and Palm’s that do not have phones in them. They were quickly buried into a convergence device known as the smartphone.

I think an ultra-mobile PC is a great idea, that will soon hit the market. Take the Sony (???) VAIO (I think)… it’s a small portable DayPlanner sized computer with a slide out keyboard. This is a great idea, but $2,000 for something that I can already do on my PC and laptop at home? It adds the inconvenience of a smart phone (i.e. keyboard size, and screen size) to a tablet PC. What makes it so much better? Or what will make the “future” models so much better?

I can essentially do the same things on my Blackberry. So I can’t create spreadsheets or receive HTML email. I can however, respond to emails, and view attachments, and surf the internet. You need time to create a spreadsheet or type a word document. These things are not meant to be done on a handheld unit (IMHO).

Now maybe I am trying to throw some logic in the fact that I have carried around a Blackberry for the last 5+ years, but I have become accustomed to putting events in my BB calendar and having them wirelessly sync to my PC, and creating notes on the notepad etc… If you let a smartphone/blackberry do what it’s supposed to do, and you adapt to it, it can take the place of ‘most’ functions from a PC. It may not do them as quickly or as easily, but they get done.

Just my two cents…

I think an ultra-mobile PC is a great idea, that will soon hit the market. Take the Sony (???) VAIO (I think)… it’s a small portable DayPlanner sized computer with a slide out keyboard. This is a great idea, but $2,000 for something that I can already do on my PC and laptop at home? It adds the inconvenience of a smart phone (i.e. keyboard size, and screen size) to a tablet PC. What makes it so much better? Or what will make the “future” models so much better?

I can essentially do the same things on my Blackberry. So I can’t create spreadsheets or receive HTML email. I can however, respond to emails, and view attachments, and surf the internet. You need time to create a spreadsheet or type a word document. These things are not meant to be done on a handheld unit (IMHO).

Now maybe I am trying to throw some logic in the fact that I have carried around a Blackberry for the last 5+ years, but I have become accustomed to putting events in my BB calendar and having them wirelessly sync to my PC, and creating notes on the notepad etc… If you let a smartphone/blackberry do what it’s supposed to do, and you adapt to it, it can take the place of ‘most’ functions from a PC. It may not do them as quickly or as easily, but they get done.

Just my two cents…