The Digital Information Revolution...ATTN TECHIES!

12/05/2005 02:24:16 PM · #1

so, i'm working on this project about the trends of the digital information revolution.
anything that comes to mind (i.e.: recent cool new technology?)

i'm just trying to find some new technological advances to include.

some of the things/ideas i have so far:
music, limewire, cell phones/PDAs, push email, move to a "paperless" office, switch from film cameras to digital.

anything to add to ideas i already have going, new ideas, stories, suggestions, whatever...would greatly be appreciated!!

12/05/2005 02:25:11 PM · #2

anything with nanotechnology? Does that count?

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12/05/2005 02:26:43 PM · #3

sure, if i knew what that was? lol... i'm googling it now..

i've been reading about it, have read for a few mins, but still have not a total idea of what it is.

Message edited by author 2005-12-05 14:33:19.

Canon EOS-20D

12/05/2005 02:31:18 PM · #4

Blogging and podcasting (moreso the first than the second) are probably fairly significant.

12/05/2005 02:31:40 PM · #5

know anything about convergent devices? (all-in-ones?)

12/05/2005 02:32:25 PM · #6

Originally posted by mk:

Blogging and podcasting (moreso the first than the second) are probably fairly significant.

oh those are good ones! thanks!

KaDi

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

12/05/2005 02:34:31 PM · #7

The "paperless office" is a myth! I work in an office and we are inundated with paper! Everyone prints out their e-mails...both from people and to people....then they copy them and put them in the staff mailboxes just in case you missed the one they forwarded to you.

Our files are burgeoning! Back when people actually typed there was a lot less paper! I know, because the files from the first 20 years are about 1/10th the size of those from the last 5!

If anything, the advent of desktop publishing has created the piled-with-paper office! I see so much literature in a single day it would take the better part of a week to read it!

Here's one link from a quick Google search: Paperless?

On the flip side, we do all "communicate" more and in various ways. We send and receive information in minutes, not days.

Canon EOS-20D

12/05/2005 02:34:49 PM · #8

and tivo. :)

12/05/2005 02:36:23 PM · #9

very good point...

we just switched to a paperless office, but there are only 2 of us, so we scan in our files, but we don't print out emails or anything....

i could see where it could get out of control really quick if you worked in a large office...

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12/05/2005 02:37:53 PM · #10

Originally posted by mk:

and tivo. :)

my list is getting better with every post! :)

NstiG8tr

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

12/05/2005 02:42:40 PM · #11

How about VHS to DVD and the equipment to burn them.
CRT television to Flat screen to LCD and Plasma
Analog TV to digital HDTV
Local radio to satellite XM Radio

12/05/2005 02:51:42 PM · #12

ooh more goodies! :)

12/05/2005 02:52:20 PM · #13

Nanotechnology (from what I understand) is basically a field of making things that are TINY. We're talking invisible to the naked human eye. The possibilities for this stuff are endless, from energy, to medicine, to space travel.

Nano I beleive comes from the prefix nano which is 10^-9 so a nanometer is equal to .000000009 of a meter. Why the new iPod nano is called what it is

Some nanotechnology stuff for you, and it's applications

Nano stuff and solar cells

more stuff

Really cool stuff, but way over my head.

12/05/2005 02:57:31 PM · #14

i think its way over my head too...

12/05/2005 03:05:25 PM · #15

thank you for all your comments and suggestions! i'm off to begin researching all this stuff!

bpickard

Fujifilm FinePix S3000

12/05/2005 03:12:21 PM · #16

The idea that digital information has to be accessed, stored, viewed, heard through a single dedicated device - your PC - will soon be dead. Discuss.

The emergence of a digitally deprived underclass - consequences for the future

Changing social relationships in the internet age

Changing purchasing trends - impact on real-world retailing and implications for town structure.

Impact of immediate and uncensored digital news on political regimes throughout the World

What would Alien anthropologists think of the Human species given that the principal route of data storage and retrieval (the internet) consists of 67.5% porn?

12/05/2005 03:17:10 PM · #17

Originally posted by bpickard:

What would Alien anthropologists think of the Human species given that the principal route of data storage and retrieval (the internet) consists of 67.5% porn?

That they should have lived on earth during the digital revolution?

*runs and hides*

bpickard

Fujifilm FinePix S3000

12/05/2005 03:27:46 PM · #18

Originally posted by pidge:

Originally posted by bpickard:

What would Alien anthropologists think of the Human species given that the principal route of data storage and retrieval (the internet) consists of 67.5% porn?

That they should have lived on earth during the digital revolution?

*runs and hides*

Actually, aliens find us physically repugnant (I know).

I was alluding to the fact that maybe the internet has grown to reflect our thought processes...perhaps this means that the internet is actually male