3d printing becoming widescale and affordable, would be my guess.... one would think that this would revolutionize the way industrial business is carried out.
3d printing becoming widescale and affordable, would be my guess.... one would think that this would revolutionize the way industrial business is carried out.
Meh, I wasn't 100% sure what the English word for "Verlust" is, so I had to look it up. Dict.cc offered me 5 different translations and I kinda picked that one at random...
Anyway, I kinda agree with you on the television thing. I didn't turn on my TV in ages now... I use it only to play FIFA on my PS3, that's it.
It's still more important than smartphones, since (you may now know that) more people own TVs than Smartphones and they use it as their primary source of information.
3-D printing is on its way now. It will cause a third industrial revolution. Among other bizarre impacts, it will eliminate the efficiencies of scale achieved by shipping jobs over seas.
Google an article by the Economist on this. They've written many and they are fascinating.
I still like TV nice for background noise. And even newspapers are nice. Just something about ink and paper that feels so nice.
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The invention of a VISUAL medium is more what was the game changing aspect. It didn't just improve/modify it reinvented.
The internet did this smart phones for those campaigning for them. They metely merged and shrunk preexisting things.
We've mainly worked lately on making existing things smaller, safer, and more convenient. The technology that used to require a computer the size of a room now fits in the palm of your hand. They could make it smaller, but don't because you wouldn't be able to press the buttons.
Hasn't every one of those inventions really just been extensions of existing ideas though? Cars and trains were new, more efficient horses, television is a more efficient form of entertainment, the printing press was more efficient than having a man manually copy the manuscript repeatedly.
Our new frontier seems to be mainly fueled by our desires, and our desires are entertainment. We'll be seeing video games become cheaper and more popular exponentially as time goes on, maybe even go as far as a brain implant that you can just close your eyes and boot up Mario 64,000.
Well yeah...But for people like me bringing things like giant robots into the real world..Or transdimensional travel....manipulation of matter....and various other Hi technologies are TRUE entertainment. I mean just seeing how they even COULD work is fun in and of itself....But sadly alot of people don't seem to think that way. They;re too comfortable in what we have now or obsess over the potential problems with said technology...Heh most humans are no fun...
I think the side that has a friend term me a "Mad Genius" is showing again LOL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One
Here, enjoy. That is the next big step. I saw a video with a nobel price winner talking about the subject, he looked and talked like it wasen't a Aprils fool kind off joke. It seems like funding is already being looked into, witch is the first step considering how exspensive this is, and why space exploration goes so slow.
Reality TV on Mars gogo! Can you imagine all the commercial money? I bet Coca Cola, Apple/Samsung/Google/Microsoft, car manufactors and oil companies are already inn an open bid-war for commercials.
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I'm not entirely sure if you know of this, but in my view it is 3D Printing.
3D Printing allows companies to print directly from a specification the product. Imagine how that would change the world we live in.
No more need to have stuff delivered, you can just get it printed in your home, and then put it together if it is a big item. Shops are then redundant as you can get what you want, when you want it. The money saved from businesses would mean they could ship more products at a higher quality.
One of the other big things about it is organ printing. Taking a few cells of yours, as a foundation and then printing you a whole new kidney when yours fails. Imagine the extension of life that'll bring, and what it means for the medical world.
Also, the big news about this is, it is already happening. A Blood Cell has been 3D Printed and successfully implanted into a Rat. And 3D Printing of items is hue already, as some car companies already are using it in their production line.
Various ways though the gravity never occurred to me...Hmmm gotta be a way...Still isn;t that over half the fun. Trying to figure out how to make the supposedly impossible possible.
Though gravity aside i develop ways to help create a base ozone and utilize plants such as trees to create a breathable atmosphere for humans at least...Although if we discover any indigenous life no matter how basic and rudimentary everything would have to be reconsidered IMO...
But hmmm your point about gravity adds some more fun into it...I wonder....See THIS is what i call fun. Figuring out ways to achieve this sorta thing.
And i should really add "Nothing is impossible merely improbable" to my sig.