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15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
Yahoo/Laptop Mag ^ | 5.14.12 | Avram Piltch

Posted on 05/13/2012 10:12:38 PM PDT by DemforBush

From the moment that I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child, a son, I’ve thought of his development in terms of tech...

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To: Windflier
In the early 1930's, the US Army Air Corp's primary fighter plane was a biplane, the Boeing F4B/P-12

Ten years later, the P-80 Shooting Star became the first jet fighter to enter US operational service (it was based on British technology from the Brit Goblin, and captured technology from the German Me-262):


41 posted on 05/14/2012 5:43:47 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Windflier

I’m 50, so I’ve seen the advent of cable TV, cell phones and the internet. I can imagine life without cell phones and cable, but not the internet.


42 posted on 05/14/2012 5:45:46 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: DemforBush

I disagree with the author on the mouse issue. It’s simply not ergonomic to use an upright display with touch. A touchpad/trackpad/mouse is still a more elegant solution.

Now, if you pair this with the prediction that the desktop computer is going away, maybe it makes more sense, but that assumes the vast majority of users are going to be looking at a smartphone/tablet model rather than a notebook-style model.


43 posted on 05/14/2012 5:45:56 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I suspect that today’s music is recorded to suit only the current listening devices. (I couldn’t say for sure, since my only exposure to today’s music is from vibrating vehicles passing by.)


44 posted on 05/14/2012 5:49:43 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Windflier

——It was fascinating to think that when he first learned the trades, everything was done by hand.-——

That amazes me. I can’t imagine sawing boards all day.

The old finish work amazes me too. Despite all of our mechanization, beautiful finish carpentry is a thing of the past.


45 posted on 05/14/2012 5:50:13 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: kevkrom
I disagree with the author on the mouse issue. It’s simply not ergonomic to use an upright display with touch.

Same thing with the smart phone as a remote control for the TV. Sure, it can be done, but what is the point of it.

46 posted on 05/14/2012 5:50:21 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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To: Cowman
My question is how much advancement has been lost due to the meddling nature of government?

Interesting point. We might each be generating our own electric power, for starters.

I read some time ago about what rural folks did before electric lines had reached them. It was very simple to rig up a generator to the windmill and charge up a tractor battery to power the few household devices (lamps, radio, etc.) Necessity being the mother of invention, there's no telling what folks might've come up with had it not been for government mandating rural electrification.
47 posted on 05/14/2012 5:59:14 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: kevkrom

Cellphones have a big issue with the metal sheeting radiant barrier now being installed in homes. Kills reception, so you have to use a microcell receiver connected to the Internet. As to the mouse, some form of mouse/touchpad will always be around. Not going to always reach out to touch the large display. But, yes, there will be changes. However, with the aging population, you will see a wider range of equipment uses. The author is talking about Windows 8 and there are still companies that use XP and systems that will not run on 7. This will widen. BTW, with 8 you are going to have to get a third-party DVD player. The new version of Windows Media does not have the built-in player.


48 posted on 05/14/2012 6:00:35 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Cowman

-—My question is how much advancement has been lost due to the meddling nature of government? Would we be using the flying car now had it not been for the government.-—

Ha! I remember the debate over telephone deregulation, and how the Left pissed and moaned about it.

Seems like the telecommunications industry has changed a bit since then.


49 posted on 05/14/2012 6:03:05 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: LearsFool

To illustrate how clear their signal was, they showed a pin dropping.
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I remember that ad.
Shot in a bowling alley wasn’t it?

I got my ‘start’ setting pins in a bowling alley.
Complete with treadle and pegs to set the pins on.

The ONLY automaton was the pin setters, usually one to a double lane with a hole between so you could easily ‘service’ both lanes.


50 posted on 05/14/2012 6:04:36 AM PDT by xrmusn (#6/98# Let's start from scratch by voting ALL incumbents out.)
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To: xrmusn
"Complete with treadle and pegs to set the pins on."

Graham Chapman: Trouble at mill.
Carol Cleveland: Oh no - what sort of trouble?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle.
Cleveland: Pardon?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle.
Cleveland: I don't understand what you're saying.
Chapman: (slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent) One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle.
Cleveland: Well what on earth does that mean?
Chapman: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.


51 posted on 05/14/2012 6:16:05 AM PDT by BlueLancer ("No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" (Sulla))
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To: DemforBush

Of course, all this assumes that technology will continue to improve, become more efficient and cheaper — which it will.

That is, unless the collapse of Western civilization happens first, and our children find themselves trying to survive in a world where a functioning electrical grid (and all that it enables) will be a distant memory.


52 posted on 05/14/2012 6:20:51 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Windflier

My Great-grandpa was the same. He was born in 1868, eight years old when Custer got killed, eighteen when Geronomo was raising hell in Arizona, Saw the invention of movies, Tanks, planes, radio, telephone, block long computers, automobiles, Hiroshima and Nagasaki lit up, then died the year the B-52 bomber was accepted for service.

I still remember him and the B-52 is still in service.


53 posted on 05/14/2012 6:48:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: TrueKnightGalahad

I love my vinyl records! I get them cheap at the Salvation Army, some have never been played are in pristine shape!

I am listening to the great old music I missed back in the 50s. Sammy Kay rocks! among others!


54 posted on 05/14/2012 6:50:57 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DemforBush; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ShadowAce; Slings and Arrows
French kids investigate teh Ancient Techs
55 posted on 05/14/2012 6:58:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MediaMole

A lot of the high-speed “wired” networks aren’t really wired at all. It’s fiber optic.


56 posted on 05/14/2012 6:59:42 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Totally agree with ya. Gee..I feel old and sad right now.


57 posted on 05/14/2012 6:59:50 AM PDT by stillafreemind
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To: unkus

58 posted on 05/14/2012 7:03:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: LearsFool
I suspect that today’s music is recorded to suit only the current listening devices. (I couldn’t say for sure, since my only exposure to today’s music is from vibrating vehicles passing by.)

LOL! Post of the day.

59 posted on 05/14/2012 7:05:05 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)
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To: DemforBush

i was thinking 50 years from now they’ll have all kinds of new devices for watching movies and listening to music, and most likely they’ll still be listening to the very same music...The Beatles, Stones, Zep, etc.


60 posted on 05/14/2012 7:05:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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