[LINK] Equivalency: technology yesterday and today

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm,

"There's an app for that". And much more besides.

And God knows what a single, probably wearable, device will integrate by way of functions and applications in 10-20 years time. If it's something like Google Glass, with inbuilt headphones and other high res output capabilities it could include the dedicated PC with a few terabytes of storage and a heavy duty 64-cored CPU in the glasses rims, a dedicated gaming machine, a high res TV with a far greater viewing angle, a dedicated library and the functionality of any number of other household, education and business devices that suck up power and space at present. We'll probably at once become more connected to the world, and less connected to our immediate surroundings than were are at present thanks to these little wonders.

All of this of course will require personal high bandwidth and always-on connectivity, and it's unlikely that we'll have the network access points necessary to really take advantage of it (and the simultaneous ubiquitous 'Internet of devices') in this country thanks to the somewhat crippled variant of the NBN we're gonna be served with ... but we can thanks the LNP for that.

Not sure if I'd personally like that level of connectivity ... but it won't be my problem - because first, I'm not likely to be around then, and second, those who have grown up with a high bandwidth always-available network will probably adopt same in much the same way the smart phone is now so pervasive.

Just my 2 cents worth
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On 17 Jan 2014, at 6:28 pm, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-cichon/radio-shack-ad_b_4612973.html
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> What you can get on your phone today that used to be sold at Radio 
> Shack separately.
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