Technology Forecasts by: Annie Jane Nutt the Occasional Psychic

Today, we are doing technology forecasts. Augmented reality is making a small splash above of a tsunami that will eventually occur. Nanomachines will cure most diseases, and then all of them. Houses will be made out of organic materials, such as sod, along with titanium, food will be grown on top of houses, and the dome houses will really catch on, as the base to grow all of this stuff and live in. Solar technology will move into space, which will beam energy down to houses through satellite receivers (like the Direct TV dish). This dish will also be on cars, which can receive satellite solar energy transferred from one of many satellites, as to not be affected by the night. The gas industry will tank, and will be quickly replaced (with the same people) by the satellite receiver station industry, and the convenience store industries.

Tethering the iPad to the Droid.

I recently purchased an iPad (3G 32 Gigabytes). I'm not using the 3G part of it, though. A) it's on At&t network which is horrible and B) I already have wireless internet on my droid. While I've used and really like pdanet, I found it to be just a little limited. Connecting via blutooth or usb is a bit of a hassle, blutooth drops connections left and right and usb requires that you carry around an extra chord all day. So, I looked into alternatives to pdanet. My ultimate solution was to use wireless tether after rooting my droid. This is fantastic. It allows me to connect my iPad and gaming consoles to the internet when I'm on the road. It's basically like walking around with a wireless router in my pocket. It's a useful hack that allows me to use my droid and a Verizon wifi. This should be even easier with froyo. Then I fired up my favorite remote connection program (I use pc2me because it has audio and you can purchase a special service to stream skype calls.) Now my beast of a desktop goes with me everywhere.

Ipad

So I got an Ipad.  The lack of flash isn't such a bitter pill with netflix and crunchyroll on there.

How does free speech die...

With quiet applause apparently.  Sitting on an airplane I noticed a young man spewing vulgarities and singing. Two flight attendants asked him to stop and then kicked him off the plane.  This was responded to via quiet applause.  I

came to the boys defence only to find that people no longer care about protecting offensive speech.   Passengers went as far as saying that cuss words aren't speech, and  that I was the one with the problem for defending his right.  I guess that free speech fell with the Trade Towers....

Virtual telepresence

Here is my contribution to humanity. The idea is simple. Use augmented reality to create a telepresence program. If you had a 3d representation of an actual place people in the actual place could see "virtual people" using their smartphone. It is simply an extension of telepresence for robots.  Instead of a robot though it would be an avatar.  You could even timeshift action so that you could literally be two places at once.  Please dont steal this. I want to do this bad.