Posted on 07/13/2004 12:39:39 PM PDT by YoungHickey
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FRANKFURT (AFP) - DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years at
the latest, Microsoft boss and founder Bill Gates
(news - web sites) predicted.
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Asked what home entertainment would like in the future,
Gates said that DVD technology would be "obsolete in
10 years at the latest. If you consider that
nowadays we have to carry around film and music on
little silver discs and stick them in the computer,
it's ridiculous," Gates said in comments reproduced
in German in the mass-circulation daily Bild.
"These things can scratch or simply get lost."
Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that
will simply show what we want to see, when we want
to see it. When we get home, the home computer will
know who we are from our voice or our face. It will
know what we want to watch, our favourite
programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to
see."
As someone semi-professionally involved in photography who spends thousands per year on equipment and processing .... this is not news.
Photographically I've gone digital ... and now gone back to film and transparencies. I will go back to digital when the prices of professional level devices comes down.
But my factoid I wish to impart is that there is a burgeoning business of late taking digital photographic files and transfering them to film. Ponder that.
The reason for this is illustrated by the fact that Ansel Adam's and Weston's heirs are still making prints from decades old film. Whereas digital storage ..... is a joke. Kinda like the books sitting on the shelves of the Library of Congress, the 'modern' ones that is, that will crumble if touched because they were printed on cheap paper.
Time is a bitch.
My dad sure did.
I knew somebody would come up with something.
But you get the point.
How about Bill predicts when IE will become a secure browser? That would be risky!
Dad, nothing! I have a copy of that album myself! I guess I inherited it?
DVD will be replaced with a memory stick. No surface to scratch. Small as a large chewing gum pack. Save alot of room in storage. Box art will be very challenging.
So when I have watched every one of my 72 Cary Grant DVDs two hundred times each and they are wearing out, I will just replace them in the new format instead of getting new DVDs. It will be no biggie; they will need to be replaced anyway! Heheheh!
You really think Robert Byrd is going to make it to the year 4545?
Zounds!
(Serious expression. Tents his fingers. Adjusts glasses. Brushes clump of lint off of five dollar sweater purchased from Seattle flea market.)
You'll regret that. Don't say I didn't warn you. Jeeves, RELEASE THE HOUNDS! GATES WILL NOT BE COWED!
Next I'll be told my D-basic duel floppy computer with the 1200 baud modem and no hard drive are starting to get old.
Like the godilla and linus people say, we don't get attacked by viruses, we are too obscure for them to write for them.
There is a growing number of folks that used to have a computer in their house.
BUMP
Bill Gates predicting 10 years out - funny. The boy (and ms) never invented anything, they just buy or copy it. So I think his divining is suspect. Now Jobs - that whole iPod/iTunes thing was pretty creative. Wonder what he thinks?
10 years????? a lot of things will be obsolete in 10 years
Well that's a no brainer. I think the last time I turned on the tv was because there was a tornado warning for my area (which I heard about on my weather radio).
I'm just glad we're not all required to wear spandex.
My fondest hope is that in ten years we won't be sitting at home waiting for the UPS guy to show up.
Yeah! I'm listening to my 8 track tape & it still
looks modern to me! Sounds awful, but looks okay.
And yet, I still don't have my flying car...
I had a couple of cars that thought they were flyers.
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