
Welcome to the world of high technologies!
Predictions become prophetic when they are rather deep to be remembered and when they are confirmed by history.
Moore's Law published by Gordon Moore in 1965 as an ordinary observation absolutely corresponds to these conditions: it was prophetic foreseeing of integrated circuit development, which became true due to innovation production electronic technologies, investments and world corporations’ researches.
Technologies have already served billions of people for forty years. In fact they have changed the style of life, work and entertainment.
Innovations and various gadgets follow us everywhere, the speed of their appearance increases swift. If you try to remember the appliances of elder generation, you’ll begin to smile – they used TV-set with ordinary kinescope and today you watch your favourite films on the plasma panel, yesterdays monitor had electronic ray tube and there is a LCD monitor at your home, acoustic system occupied half a room and supported a few formats, today it is tree-four times smaller and with using a computer supports almost every existing music format. There is a great number of such examples and every day this list extends.
The developing technologies create a new lifestyle: more modern, ultra compact and very fast.
There appeared people mad about modern technologies and computers. They can monthly change TV-set, microwave oven or notebook asserting that these electronics is obsolescent and doesn’t suit their life tempo any more. Getting rid of an old thing they immediately buy new one. Their houses full of different gadgets seem like spacecrafts, where all the things conform to the latest tendencies – from refrigerator with built-in TV-set to small microphones in the walls, which allow talking on the phone without using receiver or headphone from every corner of the flat. These people are so called "people of 22nd century" because they cannot imagine their lives without high technologies.
The technical progress never stops and nowadays it comes into the level of nano particles. The scientists have learnt to pass the full spectrum of color range by so called photon crystal.
Very few people have heard of electronic paper so far, but it is evident that this invention can cause the revolution on the market of computer technologies, which will lead to the appearance of absolutely new solutions based on cheap devices, such as plastic or polymer.
Electronic paper, also called e-paper, is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike a conventional flat panel display, which uses a backlight to illuminate its pixels, electronic paper reflects light like ordinary paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity, while allowing the image to be changed later.
There are several different technologies to build e-paper, some of which can use plastic substrate and electronics, so that the display is flexible. It is considered more comfortable to read than conventional displays. This is due to the stable image which does not need to be constantly refreshed, the large viewing angle, and the fact that it uses reflected ambient light. It has a similar contrast ratio to that of a newspaper and is lightweight and durable, however it still lacks good color reproduction. (Wikipedia)
The growing popularity of color e-paper provides facilities for the next repartition of the computer technologies market. Flexible electronic will open the opportunities of producing new generation of computers.
In a few years there will appeared the commercial series of computers built-in into clothes. New systems must be able to create the effect of total perception or presence giving not only video- and audio-information, but also an opportunity to "touch" and "smell".
High technologies have taken their place in human’s life and it was imminent. The question is: will you be able to adapt to them or they will just pass by.
We are trying to go with the times watching technologies development and being aware of appearing gadgets. We live and work in High Tech style.
December, 2007
