Ping for Android Ping List and general interest.
What continues to amaze me is that my bare-bones flip phone can send and receive audio, send and receive texts, be used as a digital camera for both still and moving pictures, has volume control, has a number of screensavers available, can access the Internet, and send and receive email. It probably has other features I have not figured out yet, like separate ringtones for everyone on my contact list, and instant messaging, all for the low, low price of $35.00 a month.
Even the most basic of hearing-aids, which I need badly, cost 15x that amount, and does little more than amplification, volume control, and noise-cancellation if you’re lucky.
My medical insurance does not cover this, and there is no way I can afford it, so I continue being a nearly deaf musician.
At least I am in good company...Beethoven was deaf too!
They will use entanglement phenomenon.
With all that power...
I read a thought that just about sums it up. Goes something like this...
If I told you fifty years ago that man could have a device he would carry around in his pocket that would give him access to all of the information in the world, yet he would use it to watch cat videos and argue with people he did not know, would you believe me?
I have a Snapdragon in my Galaxy Note 8. I’ve had the original Note, the Note 3, the note 4 and now the 8. All of them have done essentially the same thing they just keep doing it better and better and faster and faster.
I am a hobby photographer, I shoot with a Nikon D810. What my Note camera does is amazing me. I’m starting to wonder if I should stop spending so much on good camera equipment. I went somewhere recently to a evening display of Nativity Scenes, only tiny Christmas tree lights and my Note 8 took wonderful pictures.
I have watched with interest the evolution of computers since the early days. I cut my teeth on an IBM 34 and then later an IBM 360 (70 mod). I have in my pocket so much more computing power than any of those, my head is spinning just thinking about it.
We have only just scratched the surface of what computers will do for us. Man has used machines to get ahead of the other animals on earth for a long time but in the near future things will change in a way most people have no clue of. Who will work when nobody needs to? The transition to this period will not be pretty. Imagine in just a few years that there will be no truck drivers, no farm help, clerical workers, no construction workers, it will be a brave new world for sure. If you wonder where all the manufacturing jobs have gone now just wait a few years when our factories will consist of mostly robots.
There will be good to come from this for sure, imagine that there is no labor tied to any manufactured good. Imagine that there is no labor in mined goods. The property owners will still get rich but the cost of minerals will drop dramatically.
You want a car? They don’t cost nearly anything to make. the government will eventually step in and guarantee that everyone has a basic income and basic standard of life. That standard will be pretty high because unlike any time in man’s history there will be little or no cost to housing, food, clothing and transportation. It will be wonderful when professors cannot spout their political views while getting paid a quarter million for allowing interns to teach their classes. The best schooled people in this country now are home schooled and they get their schooling from computer programs.
Different times are coming.
The 800 series chips are great and all, but I’ve moved everyone in the house to phones with the 625 chip. No perceptible difference in speed and all our phones last twice as long on a battery charge.
No more battery anxiety.
Science fiction of our youth has become reality.