Jim Davis wrote: > What do you think? Have we hit a wall in user expectations/needs? What > tasks will be driving the need for more raw processing power in the next > decades?
Your points make sense, but the one thing I did not see you address, in my admittedly brief scan - I'll read it in more depth during my lunch break, would be new human-machine interfaces. Where I could see home 'desktop' (I use this loosely as what I am thinking about would probably no longer live on a desk) systems using some of this kind of power would be voice recognition, image/video recognition, AI, stuff like that. I.E. the futuristic idea that we talk to our home computer systems, it could recognize visitors at the door, integrated household computer butlers, cooks, domestic systems. But yeah to play our video games and balance the checkbooks, these would be WAY overkill. One of the thoughts of this show, I wish I could recall what it was - a NOVA episode I think, was that if systems like this become common and keep does it start becoming possible to copy a person's memory, personality, self into a digital format. What could that mean. Yeah, I find this type stuff fascinating as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261680 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
