May 21, 2009
In the large industries were genuine innovations in decades nil; supposedly new products presented merely variations or modifications already on the market, it is technologies is, I read the other day and had the - largely - agree. It really should be once questioned why it was developed for electricity, light bulb, steam engine, car radio and nothing really new anymore? Do we really have a shortage inventor, just here, in the (former) country of poets and thinkers? Have we become sluggish and lazy?
Or is it more like the market power of large companies? Why even corporate executives themselves should fall into greater investment, as long as the "cash cow" can still be milked? Would we go long three-liter car, if it were not for the oil lobby - or perhaps even use completely different energy forms a broad impact, such as the water drive ? Or is there even they, the revolutionary new discoveries? Deadlines only a shadowy existence in the drawers shareholder value impaired investors? Or at least in the minds of suspected brilliant researcher? Idle to speculate ...
A sector at least has innovative content: information technology. Mobile computing, networking via the Internet, artificial intelligences - and of course robotics. As far as the technology is there already, surprised again and again: machinery getting increasingly humanoid traits prove to be helpers of humans (eg. autistic children ), and even make inventions (at least the robot to do this, though the people not come in the corridors - see above). The regularly scheduled Robot soccer tournaments demonstrate the state of international research in a fun way.
In general, the games industry is a welcome-terrain test, also for Virtual Realities. The dividing line between the apparent and the real world will be blurred in the near future. The relevant progress can be seen on the big Hollywood productions. Eagerly awaited for example, the new film by James Cameron, the title "Avatar" will wear and is set to revolutionize the 3D technology.
Another example is the so-called "Augmented Reality", melt together at the z. Computer generated objects as with real video images. How something like this can look, you can see in subsequent film:
Some companies make this an advantage, such as the US-based General Electric. On their website you can also make your own experiments with augmented reality, provided you have a webcam.
And how now is the conclusion: art as a mirror of society - or society as a mirror of the art?
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Hello,
I really like your blog. Cute and tidy.
The innovation fatigue I see, but I see above all that many devices are simple yet sophisticated, and tried doggedly by the industry simply is to explain to the consumer nor why he still needs a new phone / a new flat TVs / a new MP3 player . Somehow, the industry has become accustomed in recent decades, this rhythm, in which a device allserspätestens applies after two years as outdated. And the current innovation frequency is this rhythm just not her. And will probably not even give him among the targeted products - here is rethinking mE asked.
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Tilman