| You may remember the things that seemed | | | | saying there is juts no way to control it. However, |
| impossible when you were a child: talking to | | | | digital fingerprinting could save the music and video |
| somebody on the other side of the world, for free | | | | industries millions of dollars every year. Key identifiers |
| and anytime you like was probably one of them, | | | | in a file are pattern matched against a central |
| along with a cure for AIDS, and being invisible. All of | | | | database - if a pattern is copyrighted, it can't be |
| these boundaries have been broken, completely or at | | | | uploaded. This information technology infrastructure |
| least in effect. Surely we will be flying, teleporting and | | | | also has the potential to do wonders for network |
| living to our two-hundredth birthdays, within the next | | | | performance management, as traffic levels drop. |
| century! However, sometimes the simplest advances | | | | Sometimes the most amazing advancements are also |
| are the most amazing, not least because they are | | | | the ones that you didn't realize weren't yet possible. |
| actually here, now. In this article we look at some | | | | Ordinary people have heard of wireless technology, |
| amazing advancements in technology from 2008, | | | | and immediately assumed they could be surfing the |
| specifically with regard to computer hardware, | | | | internet from their laptop while skydiving, travelling |
| software, network performance management and | | | | the countryside, or out in deep dark forests. |
| information technology infrastructure. | | | | The reality is a lot more sober - however, there has |
| Do you remember the science fiction movies where | | | | recently been an amazing new development in |
| messages are projected onto walls, or even into the | | | | wireless information technology infrastructure that |
| middles of rooms like in Star Wars? Well, the first | | | | allows delivery of audio and video content to |
| steps to that technology have been unveiled by | | | | passengers on the Singapore Flyer, the world's tallest |
| Microsoft at the CEO Summit in Washington recently. | | | | observation deck. It was previously impossible to get |
| Microsoft has developed laser technology that can | | | | data reliably through such a tall, large and dense |
| turn any surface into a touchscreen, and allow you to | | | | structure, which was also continuously moving. |
| interact with a central computer, even on the | | | | However, an IT consulting firm has developed |
| internet. This information technology infrastructure | | | | solutions which allow just that. Laptops while |
| means you could be having chat conversations on | | | | skydiving are one step closer, at least! |
| the kitchen bench while cooking, or reading emails in | | | | New wireless sensor technology might also help track |
| the shower, before long. We aim higher than even Bill | | | | both computational loads on large mainframes, and |
| Gates comment that we should "Think about the | | | | the heat distribution of your house. Microsoft has |
| whiteboard in your office becoming intelligent". | | | | developed very cheap wireless sensors that can be |
| Not likely to be hailed as a genius breakthrough by | | | | used to collect and transmit data, as well as |
| consumers, but perhaps the savior of the music | | | | controlling environments. For about $3 a sensor, in |
| industry, is a new digital fingerprinting technology | | | | the future you could have an automatically, perfectly |
| being developed primarily by LTU technologies. Long | | | | climate controlled home. No more chilly hallways and |
| has law enforcement and information technology | | | | dank corners! |
| consultants thrown their hands up in helplessness at | | | | While we aren't teleporting or outliving turtles yet, it |
| the problems of piracy of music and video content, | | | | seems that it certainly won't be long. |