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What do you think is the next big thing in technology?

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stuporglue | 1 year, 10 months ago
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The all in one home entertainment center will become a commodity.

Right now if you want a nice setup you need a blu-ray player, a Tivo, a big hard drive to play your home videos, stored videos (like ripped DVDs and purchased iTunes shows) from, a computer to watch Hulu and other online streaming services from, a slingbox to watch TV on the go, and probably a game console too.

For years geeks have been able to roll that all into one system (eg. MythTV) and device makers are starting to go in that direction. See the Apple TV, the couple of TVs that run Android, Roku boxes and the appearance of Netflix streaming on gaming consoles (and a few TVs). It's still a patchwork of mediocre combinations and products that do one or two things very well.

Sooner or later someone is going to package it all up nicely in a format that cable companies will hate but end up selling, and which your average parent can manage to plug into their TV and setup without breaking a sweat.

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smabres | 1 year, 9 months ago Report

Thanks all for you insights, I have a lot of info for my research, with yours and the one I got in Yahoo answer I can start my paper
Thanks so much to all of you!
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josey4628 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I think the next big thing is 4G wireless / cloud computing. Once 4G wireless technology matures and is widely available (hopefully by around 2014 or so) cloud computing will be ridiculous.

Think about pulling up any media - book, music, video - anywhere, any time on any device. Or the opposite - sending something you've written, created or recorded to anyone anywhere anytime. You won't need physical media like blu-ray and you won't even need a relatively large harddrive. This is actually why Apple is reluctant to add blu-ray to Macs and why Microsoft is reluctant to add blu-ray to the xbox... they're pushing the cloud for content delivery... once 4G wireless is reliable, connectivity will be through the roof and I'd be really surprised to have a need for physical media under most occasions.

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arien | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I think the combination of smartphones with Augmented Reality has a good chance to be the next big thing. Information about anything you see, within reach of your hand? Simply amazing. And useful for once!

The technology is already in early stages and looks very promising. Once the big companies come up with ways to monetize it, they will further develop and mainstream it.

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bklynjs | 1 year, 10 months ago
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The next big thing in technology will be robots that are interactive. Not just the repetitive programmed ones. But ones that can take your order or posibly work as a maid in a home. Thiss is where we are heading.

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cdfan76 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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The biggest thing in technology now, and in the future will be e-readers. The 2 biggest on the market are the Nook and the Kindle. I have the Kindle, and absolutely love it. Millions of people love to read, but it can be a pain with having many different paperback books. Having an e-reader makes reading simple and fun!

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