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Never mind ten years! In just a couple of weeks, Thunderbirds are go! |
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."
My parents are visiting me and I walk into the entertainment room. Suddenly, the TV changes to that porno flick I saw back in college in 1974.
The problem with a completely computerized home is what happens when the computer crashes? How do you reboot home when it's locked you in the bathroom and locked all the faucets on ultra-hot?
Aside from his "mind-reading" computer scenario, I think what Gates is really announcing
is the arrival of new storage/archival media.
My electrical engineering cousin was saying that IBM sold off all their hard-drive bidness
to Hitachi...then soon after announced that their were going full-bore into
new storage technology that would be faster and more stable than today's hard drives.
As best I could understand, it sounded sort of like we're headed to a sort of "compact flash"
memory with the sort of capacity you now see in a regular (40-120 GB) hard drive.
Jennifer rocks...
Actually the rumors I've heard from inside Redmond is that the mastermind behind Bob was the chick Bill married... so for all we know Bob achieved all it's goals {insert 70s porno guitar riff}
Exercises time...............
"This comes from a guy whose home has ever changing digital artwork hanging on plasma screens throughout his house."
Mmmmm ..... I wonder if he pays a royalty to the original artist each time one is displayed? Bet not.
Throw in some Mail Call and Tech Tuesday and that about covers it for me too! (oh, and in January, Dakar Rally coverage)
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Never mind ten years! In just a couple of weeks, Thunderbirds are go! |
When he stops making more money than all of us put together, every time he draws a breath....
/john
Where can I find a player for my old LP's? My teenage daughter heard me talk about LP to somene the other day and asked "What's an LP?"...........I said it's like a CD only black and 12 inches across.....
Agent Gates is prepping us for our transition to the Matrix!
Yeah - people will really never need a computer in their house... Isn't that what we once told Bill? ;~D
I think he's right.... the idea of cable TV and cable internet, or telephone versus internet being different things, TV broadcasts that are only available at certain times or movies or music only on hard disks? - That will soon be a thing of the past. I am not sure what it will look like in ten years, but it won't look like it does now.
I'm holding out for interactive holograms.
Is that Paul Anka or Pee Wee Herman?
Indeed. If I had gotten rid of my <kerchuk-next track> 8-Tracks when they said to, I wouldn't be able to listen to my old tapes!
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