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All this innovation stuff just brings me a question I want to ask to you guys. The movies (and books) always tried to "predict" the future, creating some odd worlds and possible new technologies that will be avaible to us in the future. Which movie do you think that have the most close "prediction" about the future ?
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
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Personally I think movies like Gattaca and Minority Report offer a good view of how things will be.
Most movies give too much of either an overly optimistic or over pessimistic view of how things will be. That too and for the most part futuristic movies make things look way too polished and sterile. Everything is while or stainless steel.
I think that no matter how technologically advanced we get here we well always want nature and houses that at least look like they are made of brick or wood.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Unknown wrote:
"I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me."
Paraphrased from TMNT:
"Cricket? You have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket."
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Though I would agree things will "look" like Gattaca and Minority Report, I think things will feel more like today. I think those two movies push hard on the notion that social change is the true innovation and leave technological advances off on the edges.
My vision of the future is one of continual advancement in technologies that make us Westerners bigger consumers and more selfish to boot.
Just my opinion...I could be wrong.
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Gattaca and Minority Report
Yes, but that does raise the question... will we be identified by retina scan or DNA? 
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
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I would hope that security systems stay on the passive side (Retinal) rather that the DNA side.
Don't want to have to give a DNA sample to boot up Windows.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Unknown wrote:
"I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me."
Paraphrased from TMNT:
"Cricket? You have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket."
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Personally I think movies like Gattaca and Minority Report offer a good view of how things will be
My guess is MAD MAX 
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon Walton
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Star Trek Next Generation.
Because reconfiguring your tractor beam to be a repulsor beam really should be as simple as rerouting a diagram visually.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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A slightly more advanced Aliens.
Roger Allen
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The way the state is invading our privacy, my vote goes for "1984" 
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Jon Taylor wrote:
"1984"
quite terrifing... but a good book...
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon Walton
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The original Planet of the Apes. 
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Mauricio Ritter wrote:
Which movie do you think that have the most close "prediction" about the future ?
I hope 'star wars'
I have ever wanted to have a sword like that
Just three words: void main(void)
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Ender series of Orson Scott Card, though I think Gattaca is a good enough guess as well.
At the end of the day, a lot of books/movies might be close enough from the reality. What is almost always wrong is when they give a timeline.
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.
- Carl Gundlach
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"The balance should start moving towards stabilization instead of innovation."
Because I think we generally need more stable products.
I would rather get stable products than new features.
Of course innovation and new stuff is important, but not in a faster pace than we still are able to make it stable.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Totally agree. Plus while not quite there I think we have a good set of technologies coming to the mainstream now which cater for virtually all application needs. If we just carry on with the inovation then those technologies are going to fall to the way side and not get the attention they need to become stable and proven.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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Stablity is going to one of new Innovations.
Deepak
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I think customers are fed up with buggy code and just want stuff that 'just works' more. So it has to be reliable and be easy to use too.
Davy
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Davy Mitchell wrote:
reliable and be easy to use too.
This is one of the factors that limit technology I think. I am not sure if things can be BOTH.
Take Unix for example. Once it is running it is stable as stable can be, but I would not want to have to be the one to get it running, nor would I want to have to use it on my desktop.
In my opinion, one of the reasons that Windows has the level of stability that it does is that it is layer upon layer of things that are meant to make it easy to USE.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Unknown wrote:
"I love long walks, especialy taken by those that annoy me."
Paraphrased from TMNT:
"Cricket? You have to know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket."
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Just a comment but in no way should we make ease of use, GUI and making apps useable for the Little Folk an excuse for the mess of layers we have now.
We should seriously by now have a UI framework that is stable, time is long past that we saw the need for it.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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me too too 
The craze has left left too many with distrust towards updating.
Italian is a beautiful language. amare means to love, and amara bitter.
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