Converging on a sustainable AND user friendly future?
16Jan2007 06:47 AM Sustainability
Yesterday evening, I
watched (after the fact) Steve Jobs' MacWorld Expo 2007
Keynote Address, and was (as
usual) wowed by the breakthrough technology
demonstrated by the visionary engineers at Apple,
Inc. – their new name, since they are venturing
further and further from "just computers." They
have lots of impressive features and technology in
the new iPhone which should be available in a few
months. It's always fun to see what new "how
cool!" ideas they can pull off, and with the
latest and greatest engineering innovation as well
as usability (like "pinching" the touch screen
with two fingers to expand or contract the zoom
level on the web page or photo being viewed).
The John Mayer mini-concert at
the end of the presentation was fun, too!
Another feature of the new iPhone is low power consumption (allegedly, since they're not out yet), but I can imagine it must be rather low to run portions of OSX code and all the other new stuff, as well as being a phone, iPod, and who-knows-what-else is in there
I'd like to be the first person
(on record) to suggest that they integrate
(while they're at it!) a sensor on the back side
from the display for HRV (Heart Rate
Variability, interfaced in devices like the
HeartTuner,
HeartLink, and
HeartMath's products such
as their new emWave) so that the next-gen iPhone
can also give you an energetic "reality check" for
your biological/emotional health and allow you
(via widgets, apps or whatever) to correlate who
you're talking with, what you're saying (and
hearing and seeing) and make statistical
recommendations for your life. If our
techno-crazed culture still needs training wheels
for intuition until our spiritual evolvement
catches up, why not have the best possible (and
reduce the number of gadgets we carry around!
Meanwhile, the "low power consumption" issue (before I digressed with another vision), is another important topic in the spiritual-physical spectrum of important breakthroughs to help with the transition from being "on the edge of environmental/cultural collapse" to "on the edge of environmental/cultural serenity." I have been watching Dr. Mercola's videos on health lately, and today he digressed (from his usual nutritional emphasis) to talk about the "other" important electronics trade show last week, CES in Las Vegas, which I have yet to attend, so I appreciate his vicarious summary. In it, he mentions Organic LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology screens under development – they apparently have "extraordinarily low power requirements" and look even better than the current plasma displays, and can even be made flexible. Now, if we can just replace all those CRTs with pico-powered displays, perhaps develop practical ZPE sources (if what I've heard extrapolated about Maxwell's fifth, under-reported scalar equation are true) for transportation, redesign our communities so we (most of us, at least) can all usually walk or bike to work, put in low energy bullet trains between densely populated areas and implement all the other Ecotopia-like, sustainable ideas that Al Gore alludes to at the end of "Inconvenient Truth", we might REALLY have some technological evolution that reflects significant spiritual evolution!
Another feature of the new iPhone is low power consumption (allegedly, since they're not out yet), but I can imagine it must be rather low to run portions of OSX code and all the other new stuff, as well as being a phone, iPod, and who-knows-what-else is in there
I'd like to be the first person
(on record) to suggest that they integrate
(while they're at it!) a sensor on the back side
from the display for HRV (Heart Rate
Variability, interfaced in devices like the
HeartTuner,
HeartLink, and
HeartMath's products such
as their new emWave) so that the next-gen iPhone
can also give you an energetic "reality check" for
your biological/emotional health and allow you
(via widgets, apps or whatever) to correlate who
you're talking with, what you're saying (and
hearing and seeing) and make statistical
recommendations for your life. If our
techno-crazed culture still needs training wheels
for intuition until our spiritual evolvement
catches up, why not have the best possible (and
reduce the number of gadgets we carry around!
Meanwhile, the "low power consumption" issue (before I digressed with another vision), is another important topic in the spiritual-physical spectrum of important breakthroughs to help with the transition from being "on the edge of environmental/cultural collapse" to "on the edge of environmental/cultural serenity." I have been watching Dr. Mercola's videos on health lately, and today he digressed (from his usual nutritional emphasis) to talk about the "other" important electronics trade show last week, CES in Las Vegas, which I have yet to attend, so I appreciate his vicarious summary. In it, he mentions Organic LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology screens under development – they apparently have "extraordinarily low power requirements" and look even better than the current plasma displays, and can even be made flexible. Now, if we can just replace all those CRTs with pico-powered displays, perhaps develop practical ZPE sources (if what I've heard extrapolated about Maxwell's fifth, under-reported scalar equation are true) for transportation, redesign our communities so we (most of us, at least) can all usually walk or bike to work, put in low energy bullet trains between densely populated areas and implement all the other Ecotopia-like, sustainable ideas that Al Gore alludes to at the end of "Inconvenient Truth", we might REALLY have some technological evolution that reflects significant spiritual evolution!
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