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08-20-2007, 10:44 PM
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Re: Great Ideas of the 21st Century (7 years in...)
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Web-based map programs/sites and GPS have pretty much made physical maps obsolete for me. Sweet. [/ QUOTE ] Oh, good one, completely forgot about that but this is definitely on my list 
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08-20-2007, 10:47 PM
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Re: Great Ideas of the 21st Century (7 years in...)
Shopping on the web. Sure it's been around since before 2000, but there is much more available since then, both in terms of individual sites and in products carried within sites. And types of sites too. And it feels much safer too.
Amazon used to sell books. Then they did tapes and CDs and DVDs. Now they sell all kinds of stuff, and their marketplace lets you get stuff from merchants through Amazon's payment process. It's so much quicker and easier now. And there is so much competition, and they carry so much too. It used to be selection was pretty limited in online versions of stores. Now you can usually find much more in a store's online version than you could get hold of in-store. Now there's very little I need to buy in a store unless I want to go to the store. Although there are still some things that it makes more sense to buy in a store -- groceries, because grocery delivery services are far from ubiquitous or cheap and I like to cherry pick my fruits and veggies, not get stock with bottom of the barrel stuff, and clothes and shoes, because sizes vary so much between manufacturers that buying clothes online seems very cumbersome still.
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08-20-2007, 10:57 PM
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That's true. Although it seems like it was a pretty terrible idea.
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08-20-2007, 11:03 PM
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Invading Iraq. Seriously. Most things listed are ideas of the past century that reached mainstream productization recently. [/ QUOTE ] Including invading Iraq, arguably.
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08-20-2007, 11:08 PM
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Haha, good point as well
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08-20-2007, 11:17 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Invading Iraq. Seriously. Most things listed are ideas of the past century that reached mainstream productization recently. [/ QUOTE ] Including invading Iraq, arguably. [/ QUOTE ] Here I was thinking that was his whole point.
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08-21-2007, 12:39 AM
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Re: Great Ideas of the 21st Century (7 years in...)
Within the next 5 years they will be releasing to teh consumer a new type of "computer screen" that is about as thin as a credit card, and can be made to be as big as you want it to be, and runs off very little power. It bends like paper, and will basically be pretty cheap. This will be the thing that really revolutionizes stuff imo, and I have no doubt the military has already outfitted planes with this stuff, so tehy can project blue sky/rocks/clouds etc to completely hide plans to the naked eye.
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08-21-2007, 12:57 PM
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Within the next 5 years they will be releasing to teh consumer a new type of "computer screen" that is about as thin as a credit card, and can be made to be as big as you want it to be, and runs off very little power. It bends like paper, and will basically be pretty cheap. This will be the thing that really revolutionizes stuff imo, and I have no doubt the military has already outfitted planes with this stuff, so tehy can project blue sky/rocks/clouds etc to completely hide plans to the naked eye. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, this is going to be huge. There are so many uses, plus it's really, really cheap. This article says that a square meter costs only $50.
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