Ahh technology, what will come next?

**myk02k** · 07-24-2007, 07:03 PM

So I'm sitting here about to install my secondary hard-drive thinking of my first laptop made in 98. Just 9 years ago, that laptop cost as much as this one and had 4 GB of hard drive space, 32 MB RAM, a 8 MB graphics card, and I used dial-up. 9 years later, I have a new laptop that cost just as much with 350 GB of hard drive space, 2 GB RAM (2000 MB), a 512 graphics card, and a wireles LAN connection...

Then I thought like this. 9 years ago for the same price the best I could get was 1.1% of this hard drive space, 1.6% of RAM, and 1.6% of graphics memory that is offered today. Just 9 YEARS and we grew this much in computer technology.

I gotta say that on a day-to-day basis we forget how we take these things for granted. 4 years ago I had a measly 20 songs on 1 CD for my car. Now I can have 20,000 songs with my iPod...approx. 80 minutes of music vs. 80,000 minutes in one unit.

What will be next? I think if we could just see 10 years from now some of us would be in awe. With stem-cell research on the medical frontier, the human brain just beginning to be manipulated as seen with curing tourrette's syndrome with manipulating electric currents inside of the brain, and cars going ohhh sooo faster all the time with less energy necessary to keep it going(keep in mind in the 20's max speed was like...45 MPH? I bet you it guzzled more than a Hummer too!)

**Hot Black Trans-Am** · 07-24-2007, 07:09 PM

You really need to cut back on the ganja.

**eddierox** · 07-24-2007, 07:14 PM

Next up is Satellite Broadband Internet Access via ISAT LAN probably laser.

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 07-24-2007, 07:17 PM

I just worry that one day we'll stop advancing...that'll be a shitty day.

**Hot Black Trans-Am** · 07-24-2007, 07:18 PM

That satellite looks like a penis on top of that truck!

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 07-24-2007, 07:18 PM

Think about penis much do ya?

**myk02k** · 07-24-2007, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by eddierox

Next up is Satellite Broadband Internet Access via ISAT LAN probably laser.

How about Vonage? Cutting the costs on phone bills by utilizing the internet to make calls....I could be wrong but I think they use WIFI for calls and transmit them via internet to a tower for the reciever.

**Hot Black Trans-Am** · 07-24-2007, 07:20 PM

I've been reading to much of Burn's posting lately.

**Hot Black Trans-Am** · 07-24-2007, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by myk02k

How about Vonage? Cutting the costs on phone bills by utilizing the internet to make calls....I could be wrong but I think they use WIFI for calls and transmit them via internet to a tower for the reciever.

Vonage is a huge rip. Skype is the way to go.

**myk02k** · 07-24-2007, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by SeVeReDiStOrTiOn

I just worry that one day we'll stop advancing...that'll be a shitty day.

I don't think that's possible in our lifetime at least. I look at my grandparents and they don't have a dishwasher, water-cooler, electric coffee-maker (they use stove-top coffee pots), a pc, and my grandfather still pulls weeds by hand! My mom had to buy them their first microwave about 8 years ago and their first DVD player 5 years ago...

When I visit I feel like I'm walking on a "That 70's Show" set.

**joerockhead** · 07-24-2007, 08:26 PM

When I began to work for AT&T, the offices I worked in had 1MB STARLan (Shared) and most of the PC's had 10MB hard drives, with some 20 MB and 40MB for the managers.

then in the early 90's they moved to 10MB STARLan.