so I just read that it is estimated that in 10 years 4 billion people will have a mobile phone... this is out of an estimated 7 billion people in the world.
given advaces in IP technology, every digital device on the planet will be able to have an IP address.
for those who don't understand the implications of that - it basically means that everything that can send and receive any kind of digital data (so pretty much anything - can be networked.
from a tech arch perspective, I can't imagine how security, asset management, software management, will be handled...
from a eutopian (eu = good) perspective, people will be able to communicate to emergency services, keep tabs on their kids, put criminals on an electronic leash, track any wireless networked device... possibilities are endless...
also everything could potentially be hacked...
but hey, you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life...
given that technology doubles every ten years, every accomplishment we made in the last century will essentially be condensed into the first 14 years of this century.
the only problem I forsee is if our moral and ethical advancement will keep in pace with our technological achievements...
we are in an age where true democracy can be realized... (not a democratic republic - and until we get rid of the electoral college it's like a democratic republic republic)
of course that would mean that everyone would need to be effectively informed of everything on which they would be voting for...
which would mean that the media will have a tremendous influence.
so everyone, start buying up stock in media corporations... and sit on it until 2020.
people are already figuring out how to market digital media, so you can see the curve in the road coming up...
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of course, I could be completely wrong and we could be suddenly thrown back a couple centuries in technology...
think global ice age or ELE...
but that's just the pessimist in my coming out.
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well, back to work.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
at the speed of innovation...
posted @ 10:05 by ryan in [ And the bulb is lit... ]
How nice! Look! 1 response to this post...
03/23/06 at 02:08 PM:
dang. i love reading your blog. Convergence of all these various technology also poses crazy first amendment issues. I wrote my senior seminar paper on it for my telecom seminar....
Oh, and thanks for the alt-f4 trick.....it's sexy.