Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Thursday, November 06, 2003 Dick Tracy has a fit Does it seem like some gadgets try to do too much? Then read about this: "Just got word of a new camcorder phone from Samsung that can record up to two hours of video. But it gets even better. The SCH-V410 can also double as a remote control for a TV or DVD player, take still digital pictures (with flash), and play music stored on it without having to open up the phone. It also has a 262,000 color internal LCD screen, an external OLED screen, and support for video-on-demand services. " Does anyone remember Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? One tale of it involves a man visiting a primitive planet with a gadget that was simply a slab of metal. Its electronics were built into the molecules of the metal. It could become just about anything. A radio, a computer, a video computer, and so on. But like Arthur Clarke said, it would be magic to the people he was seeing, although if they captured it, they'd never have a clue as how to operate it. Well, we're getting there. They used what I'd call a Tricorder in Iraq in the search for WMDs. It was a handheld device that could analyze for chemicals in the air, and perform five spectro-analyses at once. Cellphones are, of course, the classic Trek "communicators". MRIs are Trek Sick Bay beds. posted by Mark Butterworth | 12:03 AM | |
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