Random thoughts - again, sorta geeky, but readable

[powerrad]

I was doing some thinking about technology, and how it has a habit of saturating its limits until high-tech becomes low-tech (thanks a lot, Moore's Law). For example, in a couple years we're going to be using HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (whichever wins) and musing about how positively atrocious DVDs were at holding all our high def content. But until HD

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[sombrehippie]

What I'm really looking forward to is region-wide WiFi run by the major high speed companies, with the option of using other regions' services while on vacation. Get your monthly subscription. Run your home computers and laptops from it. Have a system in your car for navigation, general web surfing, listening to internet radio, and for on the fly multimedia download with the possibility of engaging in a fast FTP or direct connection to your home computers to get access to more files as you need them. Cell phones, palms, mp3 players, PSPs and other small personal electronics will also be able to use your WiFi connection for these purposes.

With the advent of broadband TV, with television stations broadcasting from an IP address, TV will be available on any device that can connect to the internet, bringing the above to a whole different level. Currently, we've got broadband TV at home, doing beta testing for my mom's company, and it's definately not bad. There's a time zone option which gives us stations broadcasting in their own time zones, so we can watch any of the prime time shows that are normally shown at 9pm PST at 4:30pm if it's on the Newfie channel. If there are 2 shows on at the same time that I want to watch, I can watch one earlier, and one later. It's a pretty sweet deal.

So... I want a big flip down screen in the back of the van, with a couch-like seat in the back, with a wireless keyboard and mouse, with an additional small screen and controls in the front. I'll have a small computer built into the car somewhere with a couple 300gb hard drives and all the multimedia I want on it. I'll have a GPS chip in it, and use it with Google Earth somehow for navigation (I'm sure google will find a way to do this at some point in the future.) I'll be able to watch tv. I'll be able to watch porn. I'll be able to listen to Albanian radio stations. On road trips, I can upload my digicam pics to the car, edit them, and post them to a blog somewhere. I can have a streaming webcam on the dash of my car. I can use a high-def digital video camera, upload the videos to the computer, edit them while driving down the highway (as a passenger, of course) and burn it all to dvd.

The possibilities are endless...