and about what we will be doing on our computers ? what OS will we be using ?

http://www.randomhacks.net/stories/the-missing-future.html

just been reading some thoughts here and I must say it never really crossed my mind

Interesting read!

The OS of the future will have Apple's reliability, combined with Microsoft's familiar GUI and open source code sharing! :stickout: ;)

Edit: Forgot smileys!

I wish i wasn`t born until a million years from now.

I bet you anything that by then... seeing how fast technology and science progressess... that people will be half robots or some $#@! and live forever.

You could probably even rent an apartment on mars or something.

And i`ll be a fossil underground :(

you never know, maybe something happens in the future and all the technology gets destroyed and we'll have to start from the bottom again :D

Wonder if millions of years from now they fiqure out how to make people live for a really really long time.

The earth is gonna run out of room.

When i croak i think it would be cool to be frozen. Some people think they can be brought back to life in the future. Ha... even though who would want to bring a bunch of old dead people back to life.

Still beats being buried if you ask me though.

But everyone knows that cockroaches will always rule the planet.

:topic:


Someone told me once that if you cut the heads of 2 cockroaches you could re-join them on the other ones body using a bit of straw and it could still survive.........never was sure if he was bein serious.... :erm:

Gross !!

That`s why they rule the planet. :eek:

I only had time to skim the contents, but I look forward to reading more...

:topic:

Related to another recent thread, I believe that site was based on a design from the http://www.oswd.org/

There will be no hardware in the future...the operating systems will become so advanced that they will be able to turn wood into a 7.0Ghz CPU :D Just kidding...who knows



But about the future....you say in a million years we might not be here.....my theory is the Matrix Theory....we will kill ourselves...its only a matter of time.

Anyone here watches Futureama? I hope i spelled it right :D

yep i do =)

Originally posted by BennyP
The OS of the future will have Apple's reliability, combined with Microsoft's familiar GUI and open source code sharing! :stickout: ;)


It's already out. It's called Linux :stickout:

Originally posted by susannad
and about what we will be doing on our computers ? what OS will we be using ?

http://www.randomhacks.net/stories/the-missing-future.html

just been reading some thoughts here and I must say it never really crossed my mind

Obviously, his view is very simplistic and misses some significant factors. To start with, at the rate that processor speed is increasing (Moore's Law) a standard CPU will be able to process more information than the human brain sometime in 2010. At that point, computers will really be smarter than humans -- which will undoubtedly open up whole new forms of HCI that are not even envisioned today.

Also, I think he is wrong about the small third party developers. They are out there and they are making an impact. In particular the industry I work in is dominated by small software/hardware developers -- and they make a huge impact.

Cyborgs will rule the world

If you took a Roman, let's say Julius Caesar, and shifted him from his time to the late 19th centurty .. he would adjust fairly quickly and start sporting fashionable side whiskers and smoking tobacco in his frock coat and top hat

But if you moved him to now, he would be unable to adjust for a very very long time, if at all, because the world would be just too different to comprehend. He would find it easier to go looney in order to escape from the bewildering perplexity of our world

Now take susannad back to Julius Caesar times and see if she can adapt :P

If you can manage it Tom, I wouldn't mind but please not 80 BC or so

somewhere later like about 60 AD, I have a a friend (http://claudia.susannassoapbox.com/) there I could stay with while I did took a crash course in the language. It would be fine if I had some money there too, I could live quite well with the central heating, the baths, the excellent toilets, the theatre, the food, the beautiful homes and courtyards

not sure about the absence of computers

Originally posted by Hoobastank68
Anyone here watches Futureama? I hope i spelled it right :D

Futurama, and a big YES to that :).