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Sci-Fi Made Real: The Next 5 Years in Technology
Jack KingSystem Administrator
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Where were we?
Where are we now?
Beloit College Mindset ListClass of 2014
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
31. The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi (SYFY) Channel.
State of the Internet 2009
http://vimeo.com/9641036
Mobile Phones
• QR Codes are now commonplace
• Other methods or directing people to URLs (like Shazam)
Texting
Why is bandwidth more important than processing power?
•Internet usage is up worldwide 64%•Mobile data bandwidth usage up 68% in first half of 2010• Applications make up 50% of all mobile bandwidth
What IS the “cloud”?
Cloud Cloud!?
100 Million/day Downloads BBC- youtube mentions 70M/dl/day on their fact sheetbut youtube also claims it growths exponentially so 100 M/dl/day is reasonable.
3.35 min/movie Average Movie Size Based on the average length of the top 100 downloads of all time.
2.5 MB/min Average datarate per movie/download
Based on 5 samples of the most popular downloads. There was almost no variation in the datarates between the movies.
8.3MB Per download
24980858378.92 MB Per month = 8.3 times 100Mdl/day times 30 days/month
24980858.38 GB Per month Using decimal aka harddisk standard
24980.86 TB Per month
25 PB Per month or 1250 "Library of congres" collections per month; an increasingly meaningless unit of size
or 77 Gbps sustained datarate over one month
Internet on TV
Google TV Apple TV
Motion Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsiFjeRWjw#t=1m14s
Microsoft Kinetic Demo
3D Displays
How does 3D work?
Glassesless 3D
