Knowlede is Power and WWW is the Fuel

There is an old saying that ‘Knowledge is power’. When we talk about knowledge presented in structured format (text and media), we face an interesting development in very recent human history which has revolutionized our perception about knowledge banks. For all practical purposes, now a days, we can access most of the structured knowledge through a single repository (WWW).

I just came across one piece of that knowledge Is Your Username Taken? Usernamecheck Will Tell You. The most astonishing thing was the number of ’social’ sites targeted by this service. All of these sites are technically outstanding and have quite a decent number of users. I really have to ‘digg’ into these sites to know about their usefulness (and most of these are in fact useful).

In fact, it is not possible to do ‘interactivity’ with all these social networks. Its just like interacting with whole world. Its really hard what to choose and what not to. But one thing is sure that we have to interact with the world [in a real swift manner] and equip ourself with emerging trends [in a flash]. That is going to be the only way to survive in near future. Thats the kind of misery WWW has added into our lives.

10 Supertechnologies of the future

10 – DIGITAL LIBRARIES

You might want to check out Google Book Search, its a very good example. There will come a point in time when any factual based question can be answered online.

9 – GENE THERAPY AND / OR STEM CELLS

A lot of deseases involve inherited conditions – as they are pass through your genes. Good news, scientists are working to change those genes and trick defective cells into growing correctly.

8 – PERVASIVE WIRELESS INTERNET

That implies the possibility of full connectivity between any two random devices. Want to check your burglar alarm from your cell phone? It’ll be easy.

7 – MOBILE ROBOTS

We may see convoys of robot trucks on the highways. Admittedly, they’ll probably have more initial acceptance in warehouses, handling pick-and-pull chores.

6 – BETTER CHEAPER SOLAR CELLS

In less than ten years the cost of solar energy could be at parity with the cost of electricity from the grid, and solar cells could be standard features in new residential construction.

5 – LOCATION BASED COMPUTING

Instead of clicking an icon on a browser screen, you can walk outside, point your cell phone at an actual three-dimensional thing (presumably, a building that houses a business), click the phone, and get information about (or jump to the Web site of) whatever you were pointing at. As well as servers with Internet address, there will be servers with geographic coordinates.

4 – DESKTOP 3-D PRINTING

Instead of going to the store for your next gadget, you might download a design of your choosing and generate it in your desktop 3-D printer. The next step will be to design your own gadgets, post the designs, and sell them, etc. Toys, kitchenware, and decorative household items should be fair game, at least. Cottage industry, here we come!

3 – MOORE’S LAW UPHELD

The law, stated by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in 1965, implies that available computer power can be expected to double every other year. For at least two decades pundits have been pointing out barriers to the law’s fulfillment, and the chip industry has been smashing those barriers. Currently they can’t agree if the law has a couple of more decades of life left, or 600 years. Either way, in terms of available computing power, it’s clear that we ain’t seen nothing yet.

2 – THERAPEUTIC CLONING

Forget the stories about generating identical copies of a particular sheep or person. The whole idea behind cloning all along has been to grow replacement organs or tissue in a vat, which the body would see no reason to reject. Cancerous or damaged organs could be replaced by new, disease-free clones of themselves.

1 – THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY

Instead of guzzling imported oil (and being at the mercy of oil suppliers) we could turn water into hydrogen and burn that (or use to charge fuel cells.) Meanwhile, the only byproduct of the combustion of hydrogen is … more water! However, hydrogen storage remains a thorny issue, due to its low density, and hydrogen may end up being only one of many interlocking components that replace the current oil economy.