Man of Honour
Still waiting patiently for X-Ray specs
Is technology getting a bit boring? (Interesting new tech thread)
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Soldato
It's mostly slightly improved versions of what we already have these days.
But maybe something will come along that changes everything
But maybe something will come along that changes everything
Soldato
Agree with the post above.
Watch The Computer Chronicles on YouTube to see how far we've come.
It's all about the mobile phone for me. To listen to music, to watch films, to get immediate answers to questions such as do swans really break your arm. Online banking, social connectivity, streaming to millions of people.
My grandad, rest his soul, was a lover of technology. He's been dead 20 odd years.
I reflect on what he knew and had. And yes, same stuff now, just in a smaller, neater package.
Work wise, being able to collaborate as easily as we do on MS Teams and Office is incredible.
When the Computer Chronicles did an episode on video conferencing, that must have been immense for the time. We now look and laugh and the poor quality. People will be doing the same to us in 30 years.
The most fortunate thing I did was not invest in the many iterations of TV and Media (3D, BluRay, Dolby). Now, I love my 4K Ambilight TV and streaming from many different platforms. It was that jump from very old to the very new that made things incredible for me.
Watch The Computer Chronicles on YouTube to see how far we've come.
It's all about the mobile phone for me. To listen to music, to watch films, to get immediate answers to questions such as do swans really break your arm. Online banking, social connectivity, streaming to millions of people.
My grandad, rest his soul, was a lover of technology. He's been dead 20 odd years.
I reflect on what he knew and had. And yes, same stuff now, just in a smaller, neater package.
Work wise, being able to collaborate as easily as we do on MS Teams and Office is incredible.
When the Computer Chronicles did an episode on video conferencing, that must have been immense for the time. We now look and laugh and the poor quality. People will be doing the same to us in 30 years.
The most fortunate thing I did was not invest in the many iterations of TV and Media (3D, BluRay, Dolby). Now, I love my 4K Ambilight TV and streaming from many different platforms. It was that jump from very old to the very new that made things incredible for me.
Soldato
Anyone linking up LLMs with voice assistants and therefore home automation?
That I would lap up.
Software, Networks, Compute will be where to look and conject on the next big things.
Also AR fishing games to play in your garden would be pretty cool.
That I would lap up.
Software, Networks, Compute will be where to look and conject on the next big things.
Also AR fishing games to play in your garden would be pretty cool.
Caporegime
Small change. I always wanted Bernard's watch as a teenager at school.
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Soldato
VR and AR are as interesting as it gets these days IMO.
I don't know how sexy ladies' bones really are. Now clothes removing specs is a different matter
Soldato
I don't know how sexy ladies' bones really are. Now clothes removing specs is a different matter
I know you guys are only joking, but the reality of clothes removing specs is really grim. Fat chicks, old women, underage girls... yeah I'll stick to the Hub.
Man of Honour
Now we're talking!
Hoverboard for me...!
Associate
PC and smartphone hardware has got a bit boring and is mainly just small iterative changes every year 
But in other aspects there has been some stuff that goes under the radar:
- Software in general has improved significantly. Can now do full video and photo editing in a browser or on your smartphone. Thanks to SOC that have dedicated areas for video encoding, machine learning etc.
- Everything moved to cloud/streaming, allowing us to have infinite amount of entertainment at our fingertips.
- AI, Midjourney in particular is fascinating to me. You can generate images, then after it’s made move camera angle, change focal length, zoom in and out, remove aspects of a photo or completely change the style. Getty images and other stock photo websites should be incredibly scared.
- 3D printing is improving VERY rapidly, if you’ve been following it in last 2 years the new hardware and software features has been insane. You can develop a new product and have a model of it prototyped and printed in a matter of hours instead of it taking weeks. All tech companies are using this for product development.
Then imagine a future with metal and plastic on demand 3D printing.. you can order a car part and a business locally can print it instead of it being made abroad and shipped all around the world. You also don’t need to hold thousands of parts in storage. China should be worried.
- Apple silicon: people don’t realise just what they did with this recently. They changed ALL their products to ARM processors away from x86. All the while apps from x86 and the new Apple silicone still run and are backwards compatible.. You can also write one app and it runs on all their devices, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV. Their chips are not the most powerful but they are really energy efficient. The battery life on Apple laptops are miles a head of competition.
But in other aspects there has been some stuff that goes under the radar:
- Software in general has improved significantly. Can now do full video and photo editing in a browser or on your smartphone. Thanks to SOC that have dedicated areas for video encoding, machine learning etc.
- Everything moved to cloud/streaming, allowing us to have infinite amount of entertainment at our fingertips.
- AI, Midjourney in particular is fascinating to me. You can generate images, then after it’s made move camera angle, change focal length, zoom in and out, remove aspects of a photo or completely change the style. Getty images and other stock photo websites should be incredibly scared.
- 3D printing is improving VERY rapidly, if you’ve been following it in last 2 years the new hardware and software features has been insane. You can develop a new product and have a model of it prototyped and printed in a matter of hours instead of it taking weeks. All tech companies are using this for product development.
Then imagine a future with metal and plastic on demand 3D printing.. you can order a car part and a business locally can print it instead of it being made abroad and shipped all around the world. You also don’t need to hold thousands of parts in storage. China should be worried.
- Apple silicon: people don’t realise just what they did with this recently. They changed ALL their products to ARM processors away from x86. All the while apps from x86 and the new Apple silicone still run and are backwards compatible.. You can also write one app and it runs on all their devices, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV. Their chips are not the most powerful but they are really energy efficient. The battery life on Apple laptops are miles a head of competition.
Soldato
I used to enjoy seeing what the new tech was in magazines like micro mart and custom PC, now it's all 5% improvements or feels like promises of what is to come that rarely delivers. Nothing feels particularly special.
I still like seeing how small things can be made, and look forward to when you can dock your phone and it be a seemless desktop transition with enough power to do most tasks. Samsung was making good ground on this last time I used one of their tablets.
I still like seeing how small things can be made, and look forward to when you can dock your phone and it be a seemless desktop transition with enough power to do most tasks. Samsung was making good ground on this last time I used one of their tablets.