What do you expect for 2019?

[amiga_3k]

By then, I sadly expect all computer monitors must be placed such that the users will be facing Mecca :sealed: sitting on their knees on a red carpet.



Nah.... just kidding :-).

I'm about to move to a new house. I plan to have like two LCD monitors mounted to the wall, each with a EeeBox style computer piggy-back-mounted on them. Like that, silent computing would be available in the living. While those EeeBoxes are not the most powerful machines, choosing the correct file format for multimedia content these little boxes could easily double as media playing devices. So no more stacks of devices like it is now. Not a separate machine for radio, video, music, web-browsing, game-playing and so on.

Of course, the central wireless router of the house would be nicely put away into a cabinet, not visible to everyone and it would have some mass-storage device of a couple of TBs to store all the music, movies and documents.

What I also hope (but don't see happening) is virtual intelligence with the devices. It would be fun to have the computer shouting back when it is shouted at :-).

[Zac67]

In 2019 I'll go to Los Angeles and expect to see Rick Deckard hunting down the streets. *SCNR*

[dammy]

by AeroMan on 2009/1/2 21:50:40

Sorry, no hopes or dreams allowed.

Oh, you expect a miracle to happen this Monday in court? :lol:

Dammy

[Manu]

I predict by 2019 we have even more computing power in our homes than before. Windows is still the leading one. We all own our hardware because it's so cheap. Processing power is way beoynd what we need if we don't do games etc.
Operatingsystems runs as virtual machines and when infected by a virus or trojan a last-known-good image of your OS starts in the background and transfers your desktop and data into the new one and puts the infected image in the thrashcan, everything done without any reboot and without you noticing much.

Oh and Amiga like OS'es do well in the open source world, and
closed source ones are struggling quite like today with a very
small userbase and old technology.

[AeroMan]

dammy wrote:

Oh, you expect a miracle to happen this Monday in court? :lol:

Dammy

:lol: I expect them to fight until they are dead. My grandsons might see the end of this (maybe...)

[persia]

2019?

AROS will be finished pretty soon.

Anubis is still trying to build on kernel 2.6.28, and it's real soon right now.

There are some people who say if an Amiga is produced it'll sell millions and millions.

Amiga Inc announces 16 new products produced by a company who's entire staff are foetuses.

Most large cities have an Apple iMall where they can by iClothes, iGroceries and iKebabs, with plenty of parking for their iCars.

[Fransexy_]

I predict by 2019 we have even more computing power in our homes than before.Windows is still the leading one

And Windows 2015 (yes, the 2015 version will be out in 2019) will run even more slooooower than now  :-P

[ZeBeeDee]

And Windows 2015 (yes, the 2015 version will be out in 2019) will run even more slooooower than now  :-P

But not as slow as Vista, even on a quad-core based PC :lol:

[Fester]

The beginnings of the world wide mind?

We might not be preoccupied with computers by then. Who knows?

Perhaps our metabolic rate will be part of some sort of taxation scale?

I might have already decomposed by then.

Amiga SolarDE panels with intent.

[Sig999]

Microsoft, in an attempt to keep up with Apple's 'hip' advertising takes to naming its operating system after Hollywood celebrities... all goes well until 2018, when they suddenly go bankrupt after releasing 'Windows Kevin Costner'.

[arkanoid]

You guys seem to have a very optimistic outlook for our way of life in 10 years time.

Personally, I predict the complete transfer of wealth and power from the West over to the Asian continent to be pretty much complete by then. Our contrived economic meltdown will long since have been completed and the life style and liberties which we have struggled for over the past couple of centuries will have been gleefully dismantled by our treacherous rulers.

Even if we did have enough leisure time between the 5 low paid jobs the average man will have to work in order to eat and keep a roof over his head, our Amigas will have long since been sold in order to fund the bare necessities of life. If we're lucky, our new ultra socialist governments may have installed "Public Computers" which we can use for a maximum of 30 minutes per week in some designated public place, under strict supervision - in order to prevent "terrorist" communication (of course).

I'm pretty sure we will still be surrounded by computer technology, however not much of it will be for the purpose of "entertainment". They will be used more to manage and feed huge centralized social databases and keep tabs on society; more Linked-CCTV cameras, RFID chips, ID Cards, biometric scanners, intrusive "security" AI, GPS tracking tech. (linked to authorities) in every personal item, etc. If you are allowed computers or are fortunate enough to be able to afford one and the electricity require to boot one up, then the most you can hope for is a dumb terminal, with all your data held in "teh cloud", so that your government can monitor data flow and protect you from your own desire to seek truth, justice and knowledge. Computing will be designated a Public Activity, where (for security reasons) you will have no rights to privacy.

You will be in an orchestrated living hell by 2019, but the strangest thing is that few will even realize it. Our children certainly wont.

But that's just my rosy take on it - hopefully I'm wrong, or at least it wont all happen THAT soon. :-)

[arkanoid]

Oh, btw. If none of what I mentioned above comes to, We/Internet V2.0 almost _certainly_ will be in place by then. Which means absolutely no anonymity on the net.

Not that us Amigans need to worry about that stuff, none of us are interested in downloading (strictly illegal) "abandon ware" for our Amigas. :-o

[Rob]

@arkanoid

Let's all get Face book accounts, yay!

[arkanoid]

Rob wrote:
@arkanoid
Let's all get Face book accounts, yay!

lol, sure why make thir task difficult. Let's just clutch hands together and jump willingly into the inferno! :-D

Eweryone should have a Facebook account...it's so trendy and fashionable - the media says so!  :crazy:

[Rob]

Priceless

[orb85750]

No worries.  decline X for the West results in decline 2X for Asia.  Of course, the downside already is that electronics today last only years instead of decades, food is poisonous, and kids toys come with tasty lead paint too.    

arkanoid wrote:
You guys seem to have a very optimistic outlook for our way of life in 10 years time.

Personally, I predict the complete transfer of wealth and power from the West over to the Asian continent to be pretty much complete by then. Our contrived economic meltdown will long since have been completed and the life style and liberties which we have struggled for over the past couple of centuries will have been gleefully dismantled by our treacherous rulers.

Even if we did have enough leisure time between the 5 low paid jobs the average man will have to work in order to eat and keep a roof over his head, our Amigas will have long since been sold in order to fund the bare necessities of life. If we're lucky, our new ultra socialist governments may have installed "Public Computers" which we can use for a maximum of 30 minutes per week in some designated public place, under strict supervision - in order to prevent "terrorist" communication (of course).

I'm pretty sure we will still be surrounded by computer technology, however not much of it will be for the purpose of "entertainment". They will be used more to manage and feed huge centralized social databases and keep tabs on society; more Linked-CCTV cameras, RFID chips, ID Cards, biometric scanners, intrusive "security" AI, GPS tracking tech. (linked to authorities) in every personal item, etc. If you are allowed computers or are fortunate enough to be able to afford one and the electricity require to boot one up, then the most you can hope for is a dumb terminal, with all your data held in "teh cloud", so that your government can monitor data flow and protect you from your own desire to seek truth, justice and knowledge. Computing will be designated a Public Activity, where (for security reasons) you will have no rights to privacy.

You will be in an orchestrated living hell by 2019, but the strangest thing is that few will even realize it. Our children certainly wont.

But that's just my rosy take on it - hopefully I'm wrong, or at least it wont all happen THAT soon. :-)