Futuristic Technology By Zhun Liu Period 8

What are futuristic technologies?

• Futuristic technologies are items and products that will be become available for purchasing in the future.

• Their features are our

current imagination.

BEYOND

Volvo plans self-driving cars in 2014,

envisions accident-free fleet by 2020

• Self-driving cars will let you sit back and text your BFF all you want without worrying about a totaled car.

• Think of how much more of your friends you'll be able to see now that your see-through smartphone won't block your field of vision while you're texting!

Your fun moment will never

disappear again in a blink of an eye!!!

Google Glass will give you the ability to say "Glass, record a video" and have video be recorded without ever clicking a button.

Interview

Q: What do you think the next big changes will be?

A: Well, I think one huge change that we’re really just beginning to look into is mobile devices. America is the last country to figure out that mobile devices matter. And, over the past 10 years, if you take a look at what counties really adopted — mostly mobile phones, but other devices —  it was pretty much the entire planet except the United States. And the [United States] really didn’t jump on until the iPhone took off and then Android phones. So, we are just beginning to see some of the really big transformations and I think that really potentially disrupts just about any part of education as well as civic life. …

Responded by Steve from AIG Tech. Department

Q: Looking 10 years into the future, how do you see mobile technologies being used in higher education classrooms and courses and how do you see them changing the way that institutions go about teaching?

A: In a classroom, discussion really extends it through space and time to cover the entire campus. If we use technology such as augmented reality, we can go even further. So, for example, if we’re in an art class and working on a project, we could install that digital project on location in campus so that our prof or the other students or that so anybody could notice that object once they reach a certain location of the campus. Meanwhile, if you and I are working and want to find a third person, we could use augmented reality later to discover where that person is so we could meet him or her. We’re just beginning to look into what this means.

Q: How do you see the future in terms of personal data - it's collection, use, and who should control and regulate this on behalf of internet users?

A: There are some nuanced differences between how European and the US government think about certain kinds of data, such as biometric. In Europe it is more regulated. But there is a bigger question here. The majority of the world's countries are described by Freedom House as autocratic. As their populations come online, it is unlikely that the citizens will find much protection from their governments. This means we have to fight hard to help safeguard their privacy and security.

Barnes & Noble Shares Jump on Sign of Microsoft Interest in Nook

• Shares of Barnes & Noble skyrocketed in early trading on Thursday after a report said Microsoft was offering $1 billion for the digital assets of the bookseller’s e-reader business.

• Shares of Barnes & Noble closed up 24.25 percent, at $22.08.• Investors appeared encouraged by signs that there might be a

deal for the digital arm of Nook Media. The report appeared on the technology blog TechCrunch, which cited internal Microsoft documents.

• Microsoft already owns about 17.6 percent of the Nook division, having paid $300 million last year. According to TechCrunch, the company would seek to take over the unit’s e-books and devices operations.

• The Nook business would then focus on selling through apps on “third party” devices.

• A person briefed on the matter confirmed the authenticity of the documents, but added that they appeared to be at least several weeks old. It is not clear what Microsoft’s current thinking is or whether it will reach a deal with Barnes & Noble.

• This person cautioned that any such transaction was at least several weeks away.

• News of Microsoft’s interest comes over two months after Leonard S. Riggio, Barnes & Noble’s chairman, disclosed his effort to buy the bookseller’s 689 stores.

• By consummating deals with Mr. Riggio and Microsoft, Barnes & Noble could effectively sell off its most viable businesses at a time when both face significant challenges.

• A spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble declined to comment. A representative for Microsoft was not immediately available for comment.

• In December, Pearson, the British educational publisher and owner of The Financial Times, agreed to acquire a 5 percent stake in Nook Media. That investment valued Nook Media in its entirety at nearly $1.8 billion.

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Questions What are the relationship between virtual reality

and social networks? How long till we have a computer like

Ironman's? Why are Billion dollar tech companies investing

so heavily in mobile? What will future robots look like? In what

directions are scientist working and thinking?

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