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Re: More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era

2-Jan-14 8:20

Infoworld[^]:
With Jon DeVaan and Grant George officially retired and most of rest of Windows 8 team out to pasture, Microsoft silently acknowledges complete lack of faith in Windows 8.

"Exit, pursued by a bear."

PIEBALDconsult2-Jan-14 8:39

PIEBALDconsult

2-Jan-14 8:39

"And there was much rejoicing."

Microsoft needs to get back to its roots; stealing developers who wrote robust and usable operating systems -- as they did for NT.

Re: More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era

Kent Sharkey2-Jan-14 10:10

Re: More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era

2-Jan-14 10:10

Microsoft needs to get back to its roots; stealing developers who wrote robust and usable operating systems -- as they did for NT.

Absolutely! Back to when devs ran the company, as opposed to legal and marketeers.

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MacSpudster2-Jan-14 11:08

MacSpudster

2-Jan-14 11:08

as opposed to legal and marketeers.

Like the path Apple is currently trompling down.

Re: More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era

Kent Sharkey2-Jan-14 11:18

Perspective: Microsoft's CEO pick will be dubbed a dud, bragged as brilliant

2-Jan-14 11:18

Definitely starting to look that way (e.g. them vs. Samsung)

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Kent Sharkey1-Jan-14 12:29

Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

1-Jan-14 12:29

Computerworld[^]:
History shows that no matter who gets the nod, some of the commentariat will cry foul.

Sometimes, the easiest predictions are the most accurate

Kent Sharkey1-Jan-14 12:16

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

1-Jan-14 12:16

Open Culture[^]:
When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence — assuming the world survived the nuclear threats of the Cold War.

Thank goodness for those long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes

Ron Anders1-Jan-14 16:39

Ron Anders

1-Jan-14 16:39

Wow, Stunningly close.

I can't tell you how much my wife would like to be able to cycle through wall colors.

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 7:20

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 7:20

Ron Anders wrote:
Stunningly close

You've got to be kidding me!

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 7:19

2-Jan-14 7:19

Most of his predictions were absolutely wrong:

Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’
Wrong (Sorry, TV dinners don't count, they were available in 1964.)

heating water and converting it to coffee
Wrong (Alchemy? WTF?)

Breakfasts will be ‘ordered’ the night before to be ready by a specified hour the next morning.
Wrong

electroluminescent panels will be in common use.
Wrong

The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords
Wrong (Note: some battery-powered appliances are available, but it's neither common nor reliable.)

long-lived batteries running on radioisotopes.
Wrong -- no such thing, and Thank GOD! WTF was he thinking? Why would anyone want radioactive batteries???

ground travel will increasingly take to the air a foot or two off the ground.
Wrong (Except in Star Wars!)

[V]ehicles with ‘Robot-brains’
Wrong (yeah, yeah, Google is working on it, but it's not here unless it's in my garage and your garage)

[W]all screens will have replaced the ordinary set;
Wrong (Sorry, LCD screens don't count until they're built-in to the home and cover the entire wall)

but transparent cubes will be making their appearance in which three-dimensional viewing will be possible.
Wrong (So-called, 3D LCD screens notwithstanding.)

And later he warns that if the population growth continues unchecked, “All earth will be a single choked Manhattan by A.D. 2450 and society will collapse long before that!”
No way to know now, but probably wrong as well.

“Ordinary agriculture will keep up with great difficulty
Wrong (Individual and coporate farms are doing quite well thank you very much.)

and there will be ‘farms’ turning to the more efficient micro-organisms.
Wrong (LMFAO!)

Processed yeast and algae products will be available in a variety of flavors.”
Wrong (Thank GOD! WHO TF wants to eat algae?!!!??)

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine
Wrong (Maybe in another 100 years... LMAO)

Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.
Wrong

Schools will have to be oriented in this direction….
Wrong

All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology
Wrong

will become proficient in binary arithmetic
Wrong

and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages
Wrong

[M]ankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom,
Wrong

psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014.”
Wrong

[T]he most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!”
Wrong

in our ”a society of enforced leisure.”
Wrong

2-Jan-14 8:01

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 8:01

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 8:13

2-Jan-14 8:13

LOL! You're just Wrong!. Poke tongue | ;-P

2-Jan-14 8:15

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 8:15

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 8:41

2-Jan-14 8:41

Collin Jasnoch wrote:
Have you been talking with my wife?

Didn't need to! It's all over the social web! Aren't you the famous last-to-know dude! Poke tongue | ;-P

2-Jan-14 8:51

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 8:51

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 8:56

2-Jan-14 8:56

LOL. Just trying to get and give a smile!! But you're probably write, I needs me some edmucashun.

2-Jan-14 9:51

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 10:11

2-Jan-14 10:11

Collin Jasnoch wrote:
that

Or who can use proper grammar! Poke tongue | ;-P

2-Jan-14 10:16

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 10:47

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 10:47

$Shucks | :-\$

ZurdoDev2-Jan-14 8:15

ZurdoDev

2-Jan-14 8:15

Quote:
and there will be ‘farms’ turning to the more efficient micro-organisms.
Wrong (LMFAO!)

Today we would call this organic farming. Why do you think he is wrong?

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 8:39

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

2-Jan-14 8:39

RyanDev wrote:
organic farming.

No, he's not referring to "organic farming", he's referring to farming micro-organisms, such as algae...

ZurdoDev2-Jan-14 8:47

ZurdoDev

2-Jan-14 8:47

Interesting. Every couple of years it seems like you hear some story about how algae can be farmed for making gasoline or some other thing but as far as I know it hasn't happened yet.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: Isaac Asimov predicts in 1964 what the world will look like today — in 2014

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz2-Jan-14 8:54