[Zugaxxsn]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

I believe car navigational units, such as TomTom, will be the next great big technology. These gadgets have the ability to send everyone to their destination in the fastest possible route. I believe it will add a significant amount to people's leisure time and possibly a nation's GDP.

[gydrorway]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

I believe car navigational units, such as TomTom, will be the next great big technology. These gadgets have the ability to send everyone to their destination in the fastest possible route. I believe it will add a significant amount to people's leisure time and possibly a nation's GDP.

have you heard of maps? I don't think the next big thing will be 'new tools, for old jobs' type stuff it'll be something new and revolutionary.

[portoskins]

In the future, discussion forums will profile its users with enough detail so as to furnish budding futurists with economic insight, among other things. Exciting times ahead!

[welihiedginly]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

I believe car navigational units, such as TomTom, will be the next great big technology. These gadgets have the ability to send everyone to their destination in the fastest possible route. I believe it will add a significant amount to people's leisure time and possibly a nation's GDP.

I tend to agree. As the technology grows cheaper to produce, most every new car will come with a navigation unit. Just like AC, CD-players, and Fuel injection. Why use a paper map when a GPS can tell you exactly where you are and where your going with out having to stop to look at the map?

[OvDojQXN]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

I believe car navigational units, such as TomTom, will be the next great big technology. These gadgets have the ability to send everyone to their destination in the fastest possible route. I believe it will add a significant amount to people's leisure time and possibly a nation's GDP.

Except when the bloody thing sends you down a dead end road for no reason and at the end tells you to turn around when possible, or send you down a nice single dirt track for a mile and at the end it's blocked with bollards and the tracks not wide enough to turn round so you have to revearse all the way back with her smarmy stinking voice advising "turn around when possible"

The thing I look forward to is when I can edit the maps on the fly so when I come accross a one way street that TT is telling me to go down the wrong or a road that don't actually exist (roundabouts on the new A130 that ain't there) I can just edit the map so it don't do this every bloody day

But I couldn't be without my TomTom now, even with the errors[thumbup]

[Zugaxxsn]

When enough people have them you'll be able to find faster ways around back ups. That's what I can't wait for!

[xkQCaS4w]

I tend to agree. As the technology grows cheaper to produce, most every new car will come with a navigation unit. Just like AC, CD-players, and Fuel injection. Why use a paper map when a GPS can tell you exactly where you are and where your going with out having to stop to look at the map?

Yep. When you think about cars of the 1990's vs cars of today, a lot of ammenities have been added. Power windows and locks are standard on the later 90's cars, they werent standard in the early 90's. Then, in the late 90's, we started seeing moon roofs, CD changers, heated seats, and power seats. Now most of those things are standard (2007). Same thing is happening now, we are seeing GPS navigation, bluetooth in cutting edge cars and in a few years it will be standard.

[Zugaxxsn]

have you heard of maps? I don't think the next big thing will be 'new tools, for old jobs' type stuff it'll be something new and revolutionary.

With that sort of attitude, Mr. Cranky, I think you should go back to type writers and slide rules!

And tape players too!

[Tusanoc]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

I believe car navigational units, such as TomTom, will be the next great big technology. These gadgets have the ability to send everyone to their destination in the fastest possible route. I believe it will add a significant amount to people's leisure time and possibly a nation's GDP.

My 02 cents: not a particular technologie but rather the combination off existing one's [thumbup]

[OvDojQXN]

With that sort of attitude, Mr. Cranky, I think you should go back to type writers and slide rules!

Don't forget the abacus[thumbup]

[Zugaxxsn]

My 02 cents: not a particular technologie but rather the combination off existing one's [thumbup]

Any ideas what it would be? I'm curious to hear what others think will be the great impacting technology of the upcoming decade.

[strmini]

imho the next big leap will be one electronic gadget that incorporates them all: communication, orientation, datastorage, entertainment, information gathering, without the limitations of today's "all in one devices" (such as phone-PDA hybrids with tiny screens etc).

[Tusanoc]

Any ideas what it would be? I'm curious to hear what others think will be the great impacting technology of the upcoming decade.

I was to late

imho the next big leap will be one electronic gadget that incorporates them all: communication, orientation, datastorage, entertainment, information gathering, without the limitations of today's "all in one devices" (such as phone-PDA hybrids with tiny screens etc).

Agreed. Think that cellphones will become extinct as will be mp3 players handheld media players off all kind gps navigation internet connectivity and in the end... teleportation capabilities!!!!!

Not kidding, I watch star trek allot

Not talking about the movies, just the series. Think they hit allot off things spot on with their concepts, because they inspired some industries to develop just the things mentioned in the series. Then the series adopt the new existing technologies and projects them being a couple off hundreds years further in development. Which will inspire technological advances which bring that projected future closer to reality.

Offcourse I'm not talking about warp engines and starships. But afaik in the beginning a tricorder was something like a simple scanner, now it's more like a scanner/pda/tablet pc in one. Just showing that technology will likely develop in the direction we envision our own future [yes]

Edit: don't read to much into it, I'm abit off a treky if you hadn't figured that out yet but the general idea I treid to present with it still stands imho

[tearidrusydet]

Robotic Female Replacement obviously

[jagxj12]

sat nav's a tech thats been around for ages, but has only recently become affordable for them to become as popular as they now are. i wouldnt call it the next big tech anymore. to make it compact enough to put in a watch would be cool though.

[bMc8F9ZI]

Civilian level space travel.

[Audi_z]

I kinda want to say: iPhone

*gets under cover*



I think voice commanded appliance could be the next big thing, alongside that uber touchscreen shown in some video.

[cut sifted ephedra sinica]

Nanotechnology. It will have huge effects on material science, consumer technology and medicine

[Tusanoc]

Except when the bloody thing sends you down a dead end road for no reason and at the end tells you to turn around when possible, or send you down a nice single dirt track for a mile and at the end it's blocked with bollards and the tracks not wide enough to turn round so you have to revearse all the way back with her smarmy stinking voice advising "turn around when possible"

The thing I look forward to is when I can edit the maps on the fly so when I come accross a one way street that TT is telling me to go down the wrong or a road that don't actually exist (roundabouts on the new A130 that ain't there) I can just edit the map so it don't do this every bloody day

But I couldn't be without my TomTom now, even with the errors[thumbup]

TrafficMaster FTW

[MediconStop]

What do you think will be the next great and wides pread technology of the coming decade?

Flash memory will replace hard drives (has already started to).

(hopefully) you will be able to get mobile phones with decent digital cameras and decent mp3 players that are more affordable.

New display type (OLED or something?) to replace LCD/plasma maybe.

Flexible display type for portable devices that can be rolled up or folded (dunno what it's called but I've a pic!).

I expect CPU's to go even more multi core. Graphics cards could follow suit too?

Electric cars maybe? Or some other method of propulsion than petrol/diesel engines.

Should be an interesting decade!

At my Uni one of the lectures who is part of the future interaction technologies group has a coffee machine with Internet connectivity. Things like this sound silly but (according to him) could take off!