future of computer

Read Bill Gates book - "The Road Ahead" - It has a cd rom that shows how he invisions the future of compting. Where PDAs tie everything together with wireless technology. Education, purchasing items, tracking criminals, etc.

Or if your more inclined go to www.medialab.mit.edu and take a look at there section on how they see wareable computers will be the norm.

Or read the Tekwars books by William Shatner, on how we jack into cyberspace. And ofcourse the old standby Gibson, I can't remember his first name, but he is the guy who coined the term "cyberspace" and see what his thoughs are. with people "Jacking in" to cyberspace with little jacks in the back of your head that allows you to control and move around in cyberspace by though.

But my thoughs are more towards the Tekwar books and Bill Gates books. Computer access for the masses, using futuristic PDAs. The ability to pay with full electornic money transfers, All data online for anyone to view.

The technology is there it is just a matter of how we apply it.

Actually, the Bible gives you a good picture of what direction we are headed - particularly the Book of Revelation, Matthew 24..

It is very apparent that we are moving to a one world economy and a one world system of which the AntiChrist will beruling over, then the Lord shall come.

How does it affect us today - as you can see we are rapidly in an era of increasing travel and communiction. Places we couldn't even dream of going to in the past, now there's communication. We have the internet as a global medium, and we have global commerce like never before. Most likely we'll progress to a national id card of some kind - and as above we'll progress more and more to mobile devices and voice recognition systems, etc. Then I think you are looking more into mirco-robotics - for inside the body.. and implantable identification into each person - as the book of Revelation states that every person would bear the mark of the beast in his hand and forehead - most likely an implantable identification device. Whoever does not receive the mark will be killed... Read Revelation 13. Although conceptual in nature the Bible gives a good idea as to our direction.

I tend to agree with tjc in the sci-fi route but not Bill Gates, he thought 64megs of ram was more than we would ever require.

If you go back & read some of the earlier sci-fi works. Such as Arthur C.Clarke, Isaac Asimov & Robert A.Heinlein you'll read about a lot of things that have already come to pass. I beleive the same will hold true with todays sci-fi writers.

These writers don't just makeup thier works they consult with scientists, the religious orders, other authors. Although I personally don't feel god will play a role in the future of the PC. The religious beliefs of people will definitely be a burden on it's development. Thats why authors include religion within thier works.

To answer your ? ,I'd suggest reading some new sci-fi works to glimse some of the possibilities the future has instore.

since most science fiction is extrapolation - i.e. if this continues, this might be the end result, and since anybody can write a science fiction story if they put their mind to it, perhaps you could help determine the future of the pc yourself??

since most science fiction is extrapolation - i.e. if this continues, this might be the end result, and since anybody can write a science fiction story if they put their mind to it, perhaps you could help determine the future of the pc yourself??

The Biblical concepts of everyone being marked/identified will be a reality some point in the future, and anything towards a one world system of government, identification, communication, etc is most likely going to continue to be the overall trend. Even the internet itself is a step in that direction. Now you can easly talk with someone in Croatia when you couldn't easily before. It's all headed that way.
More and more each day. Global commerce, Global communications - the world of IT ischanging to accommodate this.

Well for one thing, you are going to see the following:

increase in the use of mobile, wireless devices

increases in processor speed, capability

further development of voice recognition

increase in security related issues

loss of privacy

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