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1 posted on 08/21/2012 2:33:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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That doesn't mean the U.S. won't hold its lead in innovation and manufacturing....

Real knee slapper here.

2 posted on 08/21/2012 2:41:47 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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He is partially wrong on the cameras, But "point and click" models will prbably be overtaken by camera phones. Truth is, my 50 digital camera blows away the best picture from a cellphone. By 2025, that wont be the case, I would hope anyway!

That said, there is still a very large market for upscale cameras, and superzooms. You simply can't pack that kind of camera-ing in a small package, it violates the laws of optics. (That said, there might be some cool stuff coming eventually with thin film wave guid lensing).

3 posted on 08/21/2012 2:42:45 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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Not a bad list. They got 2 right out of 7 guesses: 3D TV and the EU.


4 posted on 08/21/2012 2:44:25 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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I disagree about the 3-D televisions. People are buying them and 3-D movies are being made. What will eventually change is the need to wear glasses. Eventually this technology will be incorporated into the TVs themselves.


5 posted on 08/21/2012 2:45:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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The only one I agree with is the EU, and that is conditional. I think some sort of EU like union will exist but it will be smaller and less powerful.


6 posted on 08/21/2012 2:46:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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“Digital cameras: With new smartphones sporting 8MP cameras, and resolutions increasing yearly, why wouldn’t digital cameras go extinct?”

I disagree with him on this one. The law of physics is never going to allow the same amount of light to be captured by your digital phone as the large lense on a real camera will. There will always be a market for cameras with a variety of lenses.


7 posted on 08/21/2012 2:47:47 PM PDT by MNDude ( Victimhood is the Holy Grail of liberalism)
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Chances are that if you own a smartphone, the camera in your phone has a higher resolution than the digital camera you own.

1) False even as stated.

2) Pixel count on the focal plane isn't everything. If the lens is crap, the image will be crap.

3) I wonder how much this guy knows about optics? Even with adaptive optics and deformable lenses, size matters. Aperture is king.

8 posted on 08/21/2012 2:50:05 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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The stories of US demise are greatly exaggerated. Most of China’s money comes from the US. Without us buying their junk, who are they going to sell it to?


10 posted on 08/21/2012 2:54:19 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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Regular digital cameras maybe (OK, probably), but digital SLR cameras will still be around for professional use.

3D TV: I can believe this one, unless they go to the IMAX type of thing, with polarized goggles instead of those stupid click-shutter need-to-be-connected-via-USB glasses. Then they need to make movies and such that don't try to wow you with the whole "3D experience". Make the 3D more subtle and it will seem more realistic.

12 posted on 08/21/2012 2:54:44 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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He didn't mention flat screens. I don't think they'll exist in another decade, except in the same sense that people still have CRT televisions kicking around in the basement. Holography and iGlasses will be sufficiently advanced that people will want to throw a pair on and go into the frame rather than just view a flat version on a screen.

I could be wrong but so what, wanna fight about it?

http://gizmodo.com/5923321/would-apple-iglass-be-better-than-googles-glasses


15 posted on 08/21/2012 3:04:21 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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Televisions are a passing fad. I’m betting big on radio. I think we’ll all be huddled around large radio cabinets soon.


17 posted on 08/21/2012 3:08:19 PM PDT by youngidiot (The name's Bond. James Bond. James Bond Jovi.)
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For some perspective, here are things that "Those In The know" have decreed will be obsolete by this year.

Here, too.

And here.

18 posted on 08/21/2012 3:08:27 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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“Simply put, people will be looking toward China to dictate global growth in the future first, not the United States.”

B.S.

The only reason such an oppressive slave-state grew in the last few decades is because of traitors transferring wealth and knowledge from “free” states like ours.

Innovation and development are always stifled in a slave state. There hasn’t been a single Chinese invention under communism that even came close to the constant breakthroughs coming from the USA. People can’t invent or think out of the box when they live in a Chinese factory (aka prison) their entire lives and do nothing but assembly line work.

They simply take our designs, processes, machines etc and make slaves execute it. Often times, even their best engineers can’t figure out our machines. Several colleagues of mine were often sent to China for consulting work when their own engineers were stumped.

China, in its present political state, can only become temporarily “first” if the free world rots...


20 posted on 08/21/2012 3:22:44 PM PDT by varyouga
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In addition to what others have already said about cameras, let me add that a dedicated camera will always take better pictures than any multi-use gadget of comparable price, and people will want good pictures. And not just professionals and hobbyists.
22 posted on 08/21/2012 3:27:50 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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Digital cameras aren’t going away, there’s still a large chunk of the population not doing smartphones.

Energy drinks will get tweaked but they’ll still exist. In the end they’re just sugar and caffeine bombs.

Credit cards might change but they’ll still exist.

USPS is in the Constitution, it’s not going away either.


25 posted on 08/21/2012 3:37:58 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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i guess the boy never tried to hook up a telephoto zoom lens to a camera phone then...
33 posted on 08/21/2012 4:03:53 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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With new smartphones sporting 8MP cameras, and resolutions increasing yearly, why wouldn't digital cameras go extinct?

Some people just like to hear themselves talk. Being delusional helps them redefine words and concepts.

Cell phones already went extinct. Digital cameras, just got smaller and dumber, and they happen to have an embedded cell phone function.

Make them with decent zoom lenses and automatic stabilization and flash control, and the digital camera lives! with cell phone and gps attached.

Gheeez Louise!

49 posted on 08/21/2012 6:24:37 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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