Amazing Technological Advancements Of 2008

You may remember the things that seemedsaying there is juts no way to control it. However,
impossible when you were a child: talking todigital fingerprinting could save the music and video
somebody on the other side of the world, for freeindustries 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 ofdatabase - if a pattern is copyrighted, it can't be
these boundaries have been broken, completely or atuploaded. This information technology infrastructure
least in effect. Surely we will be flying, teleporting andalso has the potential to do wonders for network
living to our two-hundredth birthdays, within the nextperformance management, as traffic levels drop.
century! However, sometimes the simplest advancesSometimes the most amazing advancements are also
are the most amazing, not least because they arethe ones that you didn't realize weren't yet possible.
actually here, now. In this article we look at someOrdinary 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 andthe 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 whererecently been an amazing new development in
messages are projected onto walls, or even into thewireless information technology infrastructure that
middles of rooms like in Star Wars? Well, the firstallows delivery of audio and video content to
steps to that technology have been unveiled bypassengers 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 candata reliably through such a tall, large and dense
turn any surface into a touchscreen, and allow you tostructure, which was also continuously moving.
interact with a central computer, even on theHowever, an IT consulting firm has developed
internet. This information technology infrastructuresolutions which allow just that. Laptops while
means you could be having chat conversations onskydiving are one step closer, at least!
the kitchen bench while cooking, or reading emails inNew wireless sensor technology might also help track
the shower, before long. We aim higher than even Billboth computational loads on large mainframes, and
Gates comment that we should "Think about thethe 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 byused to collect and transmit data, as well as
consumers, but perhaps the savior of the musiccontrolling environments. For about $3 a sensor, in
industry, is a new digital fingerprinting technologythe future you could have an automatically, perfectly
being developed primarily by LTU technologies. Longclimate controlled home. No more chilly hallways and
has law enforcement and information technologydank corners!
consultants thrown their hands up in helplessness atWhile 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.