While reading Everyware, I can't help but imagine what the "Web" will turn into. I think we are seeing a shift from just personal computers to many other important services being accessed through the web. Everywhere I turn I can not help but see a commercial for Vonage, the newest commercial enterprise to use the web to offer service for cheaper. It only costs $24.99 at Vonage for unlimited calling and free long distance. The war of long distance rates is over. The only thing for other companies to do is move to digital phone as well.
Integration can also be seen in TV's. TVs with the Internet were a gimmick about five years ago. They were a computer with only the web. That didn't work. Instead they seamlessly integrated On Demand services on TV. Now you can pick what you want to see at a certain time. The future of this technology is that we will never have to watch anything we don't want. Every show will be on demand. The future of Everyware in terms of screens for watching can not be cut short at just television. Full walls of LCD monitors adjusting to the mood and changing colors with the touch of a button are all a very real possibility. I could see a room in which the light fixtures were non existent, instead bending to the light given off by soothing fixtures displayed across the ceiling.
The future of fully integrated Internet into our everyday lives is a very real possibility in the future.
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It seems crazy to think about Everyware as realistic, yet every little gadget that comes out seems to prove that otherwise. The new technology that is coming out is stunning and amazing, like logging into your computer with your thumbprint, eyeglasses that turn into sunglasses depending on how much light is in the room, sex toys that allow real time cyber-sex to be more physical, and even wheelchairs that move by thought alone. We’ve all seen it in the movies but great contemplation on the issue has not come to me until now.
Admittedly though, we sometimes do tend to blow things out of proportion and not take everything into consideration. Just remember how we’re supposed to be on superhighways in the air right now, or so said the technology timeline of the past generations.
I think that our lives will become extremely connected soon, and with the amazing amount of gadgets “we can’t live without”, why shouldn’t they be? Ipods, computers, game systems, cell phones, palms, can all sync and share information. I think it’s safe to say most in developed nations own very connected technology.
But the interesting part of connectivity will be when those “everyday” objects are in the picture. Imagine if your tv had to ability to change the thermostat, ceiling fan settings, or just run a hot bath 10 minutes before you wanted to take it! While these things would be connected, they would not necessarily have to be connected to the internet.
In a lot of ways I hope that the internet will never be fully intergraded with the networks our future houses will be, a hacker laying siege to ones thermostat settings would be the sad for us all.
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