I never knew that......

[a-friend]

Kodak invented the digital camera. 

Bankrupt means nothing. How many subsidiaries do you think exist under Kodaks umbrella?

 

[lucky blessed]

The reason kodak is always in a foreign, cause if it aint a foreign then its boring

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

but are those only for those tables? I don't see a regular set having that special cue

.... thats because you dont need to pay on regular tables

not what I'm asking

Right now it's going to be VR (virtual reality) for 3 years. In 2019 holograms are perfected because VR is too intrusive & heavy. Quote me.

you didn't watch Microsofts E3 show last year I take it

 

[DadNboujee]

Are you Ellie?


http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...-real-lyrics-clarified-15-years-later-w206162

 

[tr1ll]

Are you Ellie?


http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...-real-lyrics-clarified-15-years-later-w206162

Irv Gotti in the club getting tipsy.

This just proves people have never really listened to popular music.

 

[Remy LeBeau]

^can't be serious

 

[sgamon]

i doubt we'll all have self driving cars by 2020. What about the car enthusiast? I think there's enough of us that love driving our own cars. You telling me in four years we won't? Nahhhhhh

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

i doubt we'll all have self driving cars by 2020. What about the car enthusiast? I think there's enough of us that love driving our own cars. You telling me in four years we won't? Nahhhhhh

you know they exist already tho right?

 

[tr1ll]

i doubt we'll all have self driving cars by 2020. What about the car enthusiast? I think there's enough of us that love driving our own cars. You telling me in four years we won't? Nahhhhhh

You live in Texas.

You know there less enthusiast than regular people.

 

[andretti]

**** them self driving cars

 

[sgamon]

you know they exist already tho right?

I know they do. But to say everyone will be in one by 2020 or even 90% of people is crazy. Car companies are making improvements on cars now more than ever. I refuse to believe there will be no more driver cars. Not in my lifetime.

You live in Texas.

You know there less enthusiast than regular people.

I know that.


Come back me up car thread

 

[sgamon]

**** them self driving cars

that's what I'm talking about!

 

[sgamon]

You telling me the next James Bond movie he won't be driving his own Aston? he's gonna be in a self driving Prius during the car chase

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

you know they exist already tho right?

I know they do. But to say everyone will be in one by 2020 or even 90% of people is crazy. Car companies are making improvements on cars now more than ever. I refuse to believe there will be no more driver cars. Not in my lifetime.

You live in Texas.

You know there less enthusiast than regular people.

I know that.


Come back me up car thread

Oh everyone? nah, hell nah

 

[shoeking2102]

 
This is mostly speculation on what the future holds with some facts thrown in here and there but super interesting read:

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.  Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.

What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 year - and most people don't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again?

Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and got mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Exponential Age.

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected. In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 time more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver's license and will never own a car. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km. That will save a million lives each year.

Most car companies might become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.

Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear. 

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.

Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes. Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.

At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home. In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.

Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "in the future, do you think we will have that?" and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner? If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.

Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields. Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don't need that space anymore. There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).

There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you are. Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more that one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.

Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education. Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child learns at school in First World countries. We have already released our software in Indonesia and will release it in Arabic, Suaheli and Chinese this Summer, because I see an enormous potential. We will give the English app for free, so that children in Africa can become fluent in English within half a year.

I'm all for a lot of things.

Hopefully in the next decade or two the educational system gets a complete reform. Thanks to the internet, there is literally no reason for School at all.

 

[SC kid]

Tina Fey got the scar on her face when she was a little girl.
She was playing in her front yard when a random stranger came up and cut her face.
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-Crevices and crevasses are not the same.
A crevice forms in rock and a crevasse forms in ice

- i read this somewhere but i dunno how tru it is but supposedly you cannot "make up" a face in your dreams. Every face u see in your dreams is something you've seen irl....movies...tv....or a combination of faces from sources.

 

[kingcurt1]

i can imagine the obesity rates with all the innovation on the horizon.

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

i can imagine the obesity rates with all the innovation on the horizon.

Wall-E

 

[oidreez]

I'm reminded of the Black Mirror episode "15 million merits" where they have to ride on an exercise bike to generate currency in the future.

 

[kingcurt1]

Wall-E

never saw it....can u explain for me

 

[pmpdaddyrobford]

Wall-E

never saw it....can u explain for me

everyone was fat cuz of robots doing everything for them.

 

[kingcurt1]

everyone was fat cuz of robots doing everything for them.

oh...ok...thats exactly what will happen to some. 

 

[God]

everyone was fat cuz of robots doing everything for them.

oh...ok...thats exactly what will happen to some. 

It's already happening. Walk around Walmart or Disneyland and you'll head straight to your local whole foods for some organic berries for peace of mind.

 

[sea manup]

Some people will be like that but others will use technology for a healthier lifestyle.

Imagine if you have to spend 90 minutes driving a day to and from work and now you can have that time to do work while the car drives you, that's an extra hour and a half you now can use to go to the gym or do something enjoyable.

Even for the people who enjoy driving, no one likes being stuck in traffic moving 15 mph for a hour

 

[jpzx]

According to the U.N. - 0.0% of Qatar is forested.

Qatar has some 151 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Of these, 0.0% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 5.3% are threatened. Qatar is home to at least 355 species of vascular plants.


...


Two-thirds of the labor force in the Federated States of Micronesia are government employees. Pop. 105,216 (July 2015 est.), Median Age: 24.2 years old.

Micronesia is a group of Pacific islands between Hawaii/Indonesia that are supported and defended by the U.S. until 2023. They're enrollment in the United States Armed Forces is double that of the continental U.S.

Micronesia maintains an embassy in the United States on N Street NW in Washington D.C.

The position of FSM Ambassador to the USA is currently vacant.