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Iced_Eagle
Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
<div class="IPBDescription">What's coming in years from now</div> Well, this thread will be talking about technology that is coming in a few years.... The thing the average person doesn't understand is that we have EXTREMELY advanced technology.... just no hardware to run it.. for example I include this pic which will show what players will look like in years to come... Some things such as A.I., computer-generated Ecosystems that create own live, etc... Go here for graphics which will soon be in some advanced FPS... <a href='http://www.3dtotal.com/home2/gallery/getgalleryitem.asp?id=749' target='_blank'>Realistic Graphics</a> that is photo realistic if you ask me... and with the Source engine's eyes it would rules... Also this site shows A.I. that learns to walk using artificial evolution A.I. technique... creepy stuff <a href='http://www.naturalmotion.com/index.htm' target='_blank'>NaturalMotion</a>
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Heres my input. You all know about the 'downloadable hardware' joke? A technique is being developed that allows you to do just that!
The idea is that you download a image of the board, probably a blueprint of somesort except much more complex. Then you print it off on special paper. I don't know if the printer has to change too. The main problem with this is that the board is much slower than traditional silicone based boards.
"tennis" man falls over "baseball" man falls over
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gree, I'm so glad you're well-informed about the current Computing Industry. /sarcasm
were you quoting something, or spouting some form of luddite propoganda?
they must have taken a picture of a real boy and then compared it to some 3d model of a a boy.
Yeah thats why my school bought a new super computer, ooh wait I mean for meterology and genetics.
The power supplied in your house isn't made by a guy biking in a dynamo. Your computer won't be built or designed by a craftman with a pen and a pencil and a box of tools.
Weather broadcast isn't predicted with a frog going up and down a ladder. Those are only 3 examples, but I would link you to that post on the Mars race to show that space programs are still around. And guess what, they involve computers as well.
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Pssh, come on, that's not SO amazing. Half the crap you saw in Episode 2 was digital. Ewan McGregor wasn't there 1/4th the time. You don't realize it, but if ILM had done as much work on making a realistic looking human as they did on Yoda or The Hulk, we wouldn't need actors for their faces anymore.
<b>Quantum Computer</b>
<a href='http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html' target='_blank'>http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html</a>
The future of manufacturing?
<b>Nanotechnology</b>
<a href='http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/FIFAQ1.html#FAQ1' target='_blank'>http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/FIFAQ1.html#FAQ1</a>
The future energy source?
<b>Nuclear Fusion</b>
<a href='http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fusion_controlled/fusion_controlled.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0709' target='_blank'>http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/...1=1&tqtime=0709</a>
One CC of nano tubes processed the right way will give one terabit of data storage O_o
Edit: BTW some thing i just remembered... did you know John Carmack was a rocket scientist and is making a space rocket that can be used for tourism... its for a contest and can be found in popular science... anyways i want true A.I. such as artificial bio-ecosystems... i saw one on the internet but i dont feel like buying it... also AI could be so advanced that if you possibly knocked it on the ground or tripped on a pipe and sat there and begged for it's life... that would be scary since AI never begs for it's life if not programmed too directly...
... link digging.
<a href='http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html' target='_blank'>Project Orion History</a>
<a href='http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/OrionProj.htm' target='_blank'>Orion, Project</a>
<img src='http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/Orionspacecraft.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Right then. Tell me which shots Ewan McGregor is digital in in Episode 2. Go on, tell me. Watch it 4 times. You'd be amazed at all the times you thought he was real.
But this is the internet and i only really remember the fight scene in the stadium and thats the scene that everyone knows right and its very obvious he was in freakin 3d so hmpf!
<a href='http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html' target='_blank'>Project Orion History</a>
<a href='http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarling/OrionProj.htm' target='_blank'>Orion, Project</a>
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and they covered the story up by telling it was a search for planets <a href='http://history.nasa.gov/SP-436/sp436.htm' target='_blank'>http://history.nasa.gov/SP-436/sp436.htm</a> oh yes they do !
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a picture is different than a fast-paced action passage from a movie.
It can be distinguished, but if it's well done then it would be very hard. You can still see on this picture that it is a CG. But isn't that done by a single person? Imagine possible qualities when it's done with much better equipment, time and professional handling.