Sixth-Sense Technology

[EveningStar]

Really Cool, New Sixth-Sense Technology (http://www.break.com/index/really-cool-new-sixth-sense-technology.html)

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[anarchy2day]

Spooky.

[DoctorDoom]

Remember the 50s/60s covers of Popular Mechanics et al that predicted the future of flying cars, domed cities, moon bases et al?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/MiscStuff/FutureHome.jpg

The future?

Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years (Feb, 1950) (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/05/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/)

Nowhere in those years was there the slightest comprehension of the real future, the Information Age. In fact, the "experts" confidently made statements that in retrospect were, to be very kind, shortsighted.

1949
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics

1957
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall

1962
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
-- Dennis Gabor

1968
But what... is it good for?
-- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the idea of microchips

1977
...there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
-- Ken Olson, President, Chairman, and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp

1981
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates

The one thing that they did NOT predict for the future was the one thing that forever changed the future. The technology that we're using here did not exist even 30 years ago, and no one predicted it. Many of us have computers that are more powerful than mainframes of the 70s. Some USB flash drives have more memory than all of those mainframes combined.

As such, "sixth-sense" technology is fascinating, but not unexpected. My prediction echoes what the speaker said about implants. Within twenty years we'll see cerebral implants that will connect us with the world. After that, there is no limit.

[Gonzo67]

The thing that is REALLY scary....

All these people developing the technology of tomorrow, all these people dictating our government policy, all these people trying to make this a "better world", do you see WHERE all their ideas are coming from?

HOLLYWOOD.

You heard the woman in the video make the comment "so you can look as cool as Tom Cruise in Minority Report". Look at our new President. Not a natural born citizen, our government pushing the "green agenda", all the "let's ban what ever is bad for you" rhetoric. It all sort of reflects the ideology presented in Sylvester Stallone's "Demolition Man". You know, where the constitution was changed so that Arnold Schwarzenegger could LEGALLY run for and be elected President? Where saying "shit" in public could earn you a "1 credit violation of the moralities act".

We have people basing our future and our lives on what HOLLYWOOD says the future will be like. There is no "predicting" going on, unless it's by Hollywood.

And even then, I do not say they are "predicting" so much as they are filming their "wish list" and Santa Claus Government and all the little tech-heads and obediently stepping in line and trying to bring the magic they see on the screen to life.

Get ready for your future. Conceived in the minds of the Hollywood writers and Directors.