So here is a novel idea for the new Ultra notebook class of computing:
1. laptop design with keyboad that is detachable
2. Super slim design of ultra notebooks
3. multi-touchable screen
4. Keyboard is the fancy seperated key design you see on all the new laptops
5. The keyboard doesn't have a touch pad. Why would you ever use the touchpad?
So in essence think of the Asus Transformer, slim it down a bunch, take off the touch pad mouse on the keyboard and you got the new wave of computing.
I personally think we need to find a new way of inputing to a computer. The keyboard is great and I don't see it leaving any time soon for normal computing but there needs to be a new way with the way our computer devices are changing. A keyboard isn't fitting in with tablets and phones sense it is just to big. The touch screen keyboard is nothing like a regular keyboard and you end up pecking out your words.
Speech is looking promising since it can be done easily and without any extra device other than a tiny microphone in the device. I think a grand hoop from keyboard to voice was what Apple was imagining with Siri...It just didn't explode like the smart phone or tablet did. I imagine this is because no one wants to be seen talking to a phone telling it what to do in a public area.
So that leaves mind input. We have been able to control station changing with mind control, why not look into text input and "mouse" scroll movements. I think just as we looked into seriously making a smart phone smaller and better that with the same focus mind inputs would become readily available and easier for the mass public.
The new Google glasses look somewhat promising to the new computer device and is a step towards the grand view of contact lenses the government is trying to figure out.
Before I get extreme I would think the future of computing lies in BYOD. Bringing your own device that becomes your corporate computer and personal computer. This is an IT nightmare but is easily handled by instead of locking down each individual device, the lockdown has to happen on the network side. There also has to be a IPS/IDS system in place for anything unwanted that comes in from a device doesn't spread and IT staff are notified and asked to clean up the mess. With this in place then it makes it easy to impliment the corperate network outside of the building since everything is in place.
Now to state the extreme. I can see future computing edging towards implants. Devices that our body excepts and gives power to. With new devices in our bodies taking power away from normal functions the body and mind must be fit and well.
check this link out for more info on this idea:
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dDoHDXukdwewfKhQfDajegcOUrLX?format=standard
Think of just some of the implimentations of genetic computing: a computer that knows what you eat and how it is affecting your body. Browsing the WWW with just the swipe of your eyes.
Think how that would change our learing atmosphere. General learning is no longer needed. A computer inside of us already knows it all and can show us whenever wherever. Is this a bad thing? If everyone has all the knoweldge then it comes down to making right decisions with the knowledge. Instead of needing to spend our young years learning the general knowledge we start were the last of us ended, not needing to catch up. We just sped up elementary through college learning to seconds instead of 2 decades. We don't have to repeat any learning. We get relevant information to the task at hand when we need it, not needing to learn useless information in what we want to go into.
Is this scary? sure I have focused on the good, but is the bad really relevant? is whomever saying this is bad just scared of what will happen? All I can say about the fear of unkown is look at Columbus or any adventurer. They had fear. They conquered their fear and look at where it got human life.
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