Which technology will be the next to go?

[diduknowthat]

I personally think the next technology to go will be chalk boards. They are on the way out anyway. Either that, or OHV engines (I'm keeping mine as long as there are peanuts to power it).

There's still nothing out there that's as cheap and convenient than chalk boards. Whiteboards are great but they don't write as well as chalkboards. Smartboards are great but they're way too expensive.

you contridict yourself. Your downloading updates from the cloud, yet say cloud access is not available to those with slow internet. You can get the cloud with 56k RJ11.

Yeah but who's going to use cloud storage with 56k internet? It'll take forever to upload and download files with that speed.

I say pay phones are all going to disappear for good by the end of this decade.

Land line phones, I think, will remain in businesses for the time being, but not so much for residential customers.

This is probably still a long ways off, but I think digital broadcasting will eventually replace the FM radio.

I haven't seen a pay phone in Boston for years. Are they still around in the US?

 

[wolfeking]

There's still nothing out there that's as cheap and convenient than chalk boards. Whiteboards are great but they don't write as well as chalkboards. Smartboards are great but they're way too expensive.



I haven't seen a pay phone in Boston for years. Are they still around in the US?

Eh, All of the schools I have been to have already switched over to smartboards and whiteboards. Except for Dr. Alvin Bowen. He has a roll about chalk board at the front of his room for all of his math. And he writes with his right hand while erasing with the left.


Yes. There are payphones here. One in walmart, one outside Kmart, and one, IIRC, at the exxon on ayersville rd.

 

[diduknowthat]

Eh, All of the schools I have been to have already switched over to smartboards and whiteboards. Except for Dr. Alvin Bowen. He has a roll about chalk board at the front of his room for all of his math. And he writes with his right hand while erasing with the left.


Yes. There are payphones here. One in walmart, one outside Kmart, and one, IIRC, at the exxon on ayersville rd.

Yeah almost all science and math teachers prefer whiteboards. All classrooms in the engineering building at Tufts University uses black boards.

 

[wolfeking]

I think i was clearer. Bowen has a blackboard and he teaches math. Algebra 2 and calculus.

either way, I think most primary schools, at least in this area are on whiteboards at a bare minimum.

 

[CrazyMike]

Here, there are very VERY few chalkboards. In fact i can't remember the last time i seen one. Almost all schools and other institutions are using whiteboards. Our Schools here are now implementing smart boards.

I haven't seen a pay phone on the streets in years. Do see them in malls though.

 

[Ankur]

Well yeah. . in my city also teachers are only using smart boards and projectors to teach. I think it is good enough. But I think nothing beats the back boards.

 

[wonderboy1953]

I taught several years ago and...

Well yeah. . in my city also teachers are only using smart boards and projectors to teach. I think it is good enough. But I think nothing beats the back boards.

I think white on black or green beats out black on white.

 

[wonderboy1953]

jonnyp11 tried to post this yesterday, but...

it didn't make it into the thread so I'm posting this in for him:

"---Quote (Originally by tremmor)---
Interesting.
Thought dial up for computers would be obsolete. Not Yet!
---End Quote---
Well obsolete and unused are different, i think it's been obsolete for a while, but some can't afford comcast or whatever internet, so it's still used since everyone has a computer.
***************"

 

[tremmor]

Wasn't cheap either. Depends on where ya lived. It was before the internet and only bulletin boards. Every place i called was a toll call at a bulletin board. I ran up phone bills as high as $300 a month. Stupid but true in its time.

 

[jonnyp11]

Actually i had deleted that post, idk what the prices and all are so i thought it might just be better to delete it, and obviously it isn't always cheaper.

as for the chalkboards, i don't think i've ever had a teacher with one actually. all my school has is white boards and IR attachments that make them into smart-boards when you use a special pen with it, and also basically bamboo rip-offs called mimios where it's a screenless touch tablet and you hover the its pen over it to move the mouse and bear down to write, their tricky to use but fun once you're used to them (or at least the bamboo i used once was). Although chalkboards do have the advantage of (although clapping the erasers suck) sent-less chalk, whereas the school ain't gonna pay for sentless markers or whatever, so if you write on the board....well if you haven't before, trust me, you won't want to. on a side note, we have a small (not mini, like 42 or so incher) white board in out kitchen on one of the walls, and it's never used

 

[Mishkin]

Never saw a whiteboard until I hit university. I don't think I've seen a smartboard period, but it's possible. I grew up in a town of 3k people and I'm 30 years old. Unsure whether I should feel old, backwards, or both.

 

[wolfeking]

I don't think you will have seen a smartboard. They were just getting started when I was in 6th grade, that was 2006-2007.

As for white boards, I have never seen anything else in widespread use, but 30 years ago, 1982, that probably wasn't the case.

 

[Mishkin]

I graduated from high school in 2000, and we had 100% chalkboards from elementary school all the way up through grade 12. At university, from what I can remember it was all whiteboards in all of my classes. At the time, I simply thought it was because it was "a place of higher learning" and so they had better stuff. Looking back on it, the timeframe may have been a factor as well. I'm pretty sure my hometown high school has at least whiteboards now. Unsure about the lower grades though.

 

[Okedokey]

Within the next 5-10 years, computers as we know them, we will have dumb terminals with everything stored on the cloud and only systems that perform specialist tasks and servers will have any sort of processing power

that was what i was going to say

Australia is installing fibre to the home for 80% of the population, making offsite processing a very real option in the near future.

 

[Mattu]

I predict 100 years from now, RAM as we know it will be a thing of the past.

The CPU's cache size will be big enough by then that 'RAM' will no longer be needed.

 

[jonnyp11]

I predict 100 years from now, RAM as we know it will be a thing of the past.

The CPU's cache size will be big enough by then that 'RAM' will no longer be needed.

In 100 years we won't even have computers, it'll be like in Futurama, eyePhones that project the stuff in front of us or something along those lines, and they'll be 10x stronger than what we have now.

 

[wolfeking]

I would guess far north of 10x, just look at the rise in computing power from 2000-2010, that itself is a 10x or more rise.

 

[wonderboy1953]

To throw my two cents in

Thunderbolt, slated to be released in April to the general public, is 20 times faster than USB 2.0 and is expected to get even 10 times faster in ten years (that or vaporware, we shall see).

 

[jonnyp11]

Is that supposed to say usb 2.0 will be gone, even though we already know it's almost non-existant in new computers made this year, or at least new models that have come out this year.

and to reiterate what was said in another thread, NOBODY READS THE TITLES, so posting in that is pointless, i only read it because i noticed it was you.

 

[wonderboy1953]

It's good to be noticed

That's my style as it briefly states what my post is about. In regards to your technology question, you've answered it yourself as this thread is about the next technology on the way out and from your description, then USB 2.0 fits the bill perfectly as it's hanging by a thread.