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Moores law applied to Batteries.
We already have that, but probably not in the way you mean. Lithium Ion batteries -- the current king of the hill -- are pretty much the same today as when they first came into use in the 1970s. We've been seeing longer lifetimes and shorter charge times because device manufacturers can afford to throw in more hardware to control discharging and recharging.
Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
I think it's rather probable that speakers of different languages think different. So a unified language might lead to (more) unified thinking. I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad thing.
Something I thought of when I was studying engineering at Uni (I dropped out) was to fit a small device onto the accelerator cable of a car that can apply varying degrees of tension to the pedal. This device would be moderated by the computer in the car to "condition" the driver to adopt a more fuel-efficient driving style. If you drive in a non-fuel efficient manner, there would be more "drag" on the pedal, thus req…
Just a small problem on macs, when I switch from single monitor to dual and visa versa I want the previous state restored. I want it to store the state of the windows and restore as many as it can from the last state... It would be great to keep all my terminals in the same location.
If you're not going to be using the windows you have open on the external monitor you can minimize them before you unplug it. If you open them later when you're plugged in again they will pop up where they were before.
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We already have that, but probably not in the way you mean. Lithium Ion batteries -- the current king of the hill -- are pretty much the same today as when they first came into use in the 1970s. We've been seeing longer lifetimes and shorter charge times because device manufacturers can afford to throw in more hardware to control discharging and recharging.
"We already have that, but probably not in the way you mean." Please explain
If I were a conspiracy nut, I'd suggest that perhaps companies have made massive advances in Batteries, but they would make far less money from them, so have hidden them in an underground lair.
Universal language...there's no reason why people speak different languages anymore, they only create barriers now. In our newly technologically connected world, our languages we speak should not be getting in our way anymore...
We already have English.
Real estate is something of an amateur gig where the "transaction costs" have been ridiculously inflated through obfuscation
A web based programming IDE.
Longer lifetime...200-300 years. There is just too much to do and time flies way too fast. One minute you are a 20 year old college student, the next minute you are 40 years old, running out the clock.
P=NP