> Re: [LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Stilgherrian]

On 22/6/07 12:24 PM, "Stewart Fist" <stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 25 Megs is enough for most HDTV, (times two or three for the kids TV) and a
> couple of Megs is enough for videoconferencing (times two for symmetrical)
> 
> Add in some future possibilities of:
> * smell-a-vision 
> * room shaking for adventure films and
> * Barbarella-style orgasm box that allows your daughter to have unprotected
> sex with some remote boyfriend,
> 
> and you've gone pretty close to the limit of the senses -- and therefore of
> the requirments, in a 2.4 person household.

Um, HDTV is some sort of ideal maximum? Seems terribly limited to me. I
mean, HDTV is "only" the size of my PowerBook's screen or so.

How about display technology which is (1) better-than-eye resolution, e.g.
glossy magazine style 200 lines per inch halftones, (2) the size of the
entire surface of my desk, and the wall above it, so all my work is spread
out on it, (3) 3D holographic.

Someone mentioned "vision" the other day, thinking 20 or 30 years ahead.

Well, to give an example, look *back* 30 years to 1977 and 80-column dot
matrix printers and microcomputers with 16k of memory. Back then, could you
really have envisaged "everyone" having access to broadcast-quality video
editing on a laptop, or World of Warcraft?

Now take that kind of leap and jump *forward* and you'll have ways of using
computers which you hadn't thought of yet.

The more I think about it, the more I think we need to be Thinking Big.
Really Big.

Like Helen Coonan's mascara.

Stil


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