It is unquestionably the future

Post by seldo » Sun, Jan 03, 2010, 4:56 AM UTC

Post by njharman » Sun, Jan 03, 2010, 4:32 PM UTC

wallflower wrote: post #3

trimski wrote: post #2

During a discussion with a friend on future technology, someone remarked that for a few days' wages ($200 for an iPod touch) you can now hold a condensed summary of all human knowledge (Wikipedia) in the palm of your hand, with near-instant access to astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, engineering, mathematics, history, sociology, economics, psychology, medicine, technology, literature, art, drama, rel…

> Yet far more often we use it for trivia and the mundane I play quizzo (pub quiz) occasionally. The winning team usually gets comps for their bar tab. I am shocked at how many teams will surreptitiously or sometimes brazenly pull out their mobile to google an answer. Where's the fun in that? It's not very often but I love when I can on a hunch/recall trivial knowledge like 'Iris' was the name of the woman in 'Taxi D…

Post by cschneid » Sun, Jan 03, 2010, 5:49 PM UTC

sjs wrote: post #7

It's here alright. Until we can communicate telepathically - via our phones I bet - being able to send instant SMS messages around the globe will have to do. When 3G (or 4G, or the next one) is more accessible to everyone we'll have a whole array of ways to communicate instantly with literally almost everybody on earth (for reasonable values of "almost"). Twitter, traditional IM, IRC, Skype, ...