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When were you last truly amazed by technology?
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RobinOfLoxley
25-12-2016
Originally Posted by JimothyD:
“I work in automotive technology and am amazed by how connected car traffic management will completely change in the next 5 years. We'll have self-driving cars that can talk to each other, download information about the road they are on and behave in a way that is quite alien to how traffic operates as we know it. In the 2020s, cars will travel in platoons, nose to bumper at high speed like trains to increase efficiency. They'll be constantly talking to each other every millisecond, informing each other about hazards, optimum gear ratios etc...it'all be a complete revolution.”

That's what you want to happen because you are in the Industry.
I have my doubts that it will ever be feasible, or at least it will be a long way off.

Maybe we ought to finish the Paperless Office Project first.
JimothyD
25-12-2016
Originally Posted by RobinOfLoxley:
“That's what you want to happen because you are in the Industry.
I have my doubts that it will ever be feasible, or at least it will be a long way off.

Maybe we ought to finish the Paperless Office Project first.”

No, I couldn't care less if it happens. But I know is that all the major manufacturers are of the same line of thinking and are investing heavily in road tokenisation.
plymouthbloke1974
25-12-2016
If I look back to 1992 and when I had my first mobile phone... a Motorola Personal on Cellnet Analogue... £15/month but 50p/min for calls... even having calls diverted to your voicemail cost 30p/min! Sky only had 6 channels (Sky One/Sky News/Sky Movies/Sky Sports/The Movie Channel/Sky Movies Gold)... terrestrial tv only had 4 channels, Radio 1 still rolling out on FM... Cornwall got its first commercial radio station (Pirate FM), dialup internet that cost a fortune and didn't work...

If I went back to my former self and told him what we have now (Digital TV, Fibre, DAB, 4G etc) I think he'd pass out!
nvingo
28-12-2016
Definitely the smartphone.
Simply because, it is the size of a matchbox;
Almost half its volume is battery;
Its top surface is the primary user I/O device;
But mostly because the rest of it contains FIVE radio receivers and four radio TRANSMITTERS;-
GPS receiver+transmitters for wifi, bluetooth, 2G/voice+3G/data.
RebelScum
28-12-2016
I was going to reply to a post about the Amazon echo but itt seems to have disappeared.
Laurel1ne
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by WombatDeath:
“It will sound like a small thing but I'm amazed by google phrase search. I understand how individual words are indexed, but it can't possibly index every sentence fragment on the web, so I have no idea how it returns results for phrases so quickly.”

Similarly how Shazam identifies a particular piece of music from a 10 seconds soundbyte, I have a degree in Computer Science but still am impressed by that
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