Christmas and Tech

What will they think of next?  Furby, tickle-me elmo...  All big hits for the Christmas holiday for consumers to buy.  Whats next?  Technologies are becoming more and more advanced.  They are also becoming cheaper and cheaper.  Apple is seemingly beginning to take over the market by marketing common products that most have such as ipods.  Almost everyone has an ipod but does everyone have a green or blue one.  Surprisingly, people are now beginning to buy them more than once for means of fashion.  People will own multiple ipods for the means to be more fashionable.  This is the type of markets that companies such as apple are attacking.

     These companies create the need that you need to fill with their technologies and they aim to do it at Christmas time when everyone is willing to splurge a little bit more.  With people more and more willing to splurge at this time, this is the ideal time for a new technology to attempt to break into the market.  Extremely high priced gaming systems are coming out around this time because this is when people are willing to buy them. Everyone is willing to spend a little bit more in the merry season.  Moreover, everyone is willing to spend a little bit more on some technologies that others such as children or spouses want.

     What will be next though?  Twenty years from now will we be shopping for spaceships come Christmas.  Sounds foolish, but who knows?  I would never imagine that we would be shopping for 3-D gaming systems and television about 5 years ago.  Technology is advancing exponentially, and it is almost a task to try to keep up with it.  I don't know what is yet to come but I am looking forward to finding out.  We are on the brink of the technology age, and it is exciting to be here.

Military Tech

Back in the day, if you wanted to physically fight someone, you had to approach them in person and fight them in hand to hand combat.  The new technology from there was simple weaponry such as spears and bow and arrows.  Well we have come a long way since then.  Smart technology is now highly integrated into weaponry.  The new XM-25 is now being deployed, for example.  This is a new computerized grenade launcher.  What will be thought of next?  Is someone going to invent an iron man suit?  Will someone invent the cure, as it was invented in a clockwork orange, to stop others who are malicious from attacking others?  Who knows?  Obviously, technological advances are being made all around us.  The way we fight, communicate, and think is no longer the same way it used to be.  What if a technology was invented to tap into the minds of many and quell that certain part of the brain that drives us to fight.  Now that would be a revolutionary technology that would be truly beneficial to the human race.  Only time will tell.  With technology advancing the way it has been, anything is possible.

3D is becoming more realistic

Back in the J, 3D was a matter of science fiction.  3D was not all that realizable, but in our generation it will soon become the norm.  Seemingly everything is shifting to 3D.  First, you can see movies in 3D.  Then, you can buy 3D tv's and watch programming that was done in 3D.  Well whats next?  From an AD I saw in popular science magazine, they are coming out with a 3D camcorder.  You will soon be able to make home movies in 3D as well.  Interestingly enough, this was merely a science fiction concept not too long ago.  Movies such as "Minority Report" portray this science fiction 3D recordings at parts of the movie to express a futuristic feel to the society in the motion picture.  Apparently gaming systems are coming out from producers such as Nintendo that are intended for household use that are in 3D.  Soon enough, everything that can be in 3D will be in 3D.

The real question is "How far will we go?"  Technology is always pushing the limits of reality to become reality, but will there become a point when we can no longer tell the difference from true reality and this "illusion"?  I would imagine that the day we could not tell the difference is when reality becomes a reality that is much like the one in the movie "Total Recall."  In the movie, the main character is unable to differentiate whether or not he is living in reality or if he is dreaming.  Likewise, the "Matrix" portrays a similar idea.

I feel that technology will either never bring us this far or will not bring us this far in our lifetime.  Surely, the 3D television broadcasting looks more realistic than it previously did when broadcasting was done in black and white.  What the next step toward this realizable reality?