I saw Tron: Legacy yesterday, but not at the Imax, in the “Disney 3D” or “Real3D” whatever. It was this relatively small theater or at least some of the screens seem kind of small to me. I think it’s a 14 screen or something like that. Anyway it’s a normal theater with a single “IMAX” screen.
I saw it with a buddy of mine who originally wanted to see it on the “IMAX” screen. I assumed he meant the REAL Imax in the local big city, the kind with the ginormous projectors and only two stadium sized seating theaters. The “real” Imax in other words. So I started calling the mini-Imax at the local theater the “poorman’s Imax for chumps” and apparently my buddy is really sensitive about that insisting it is a real Imax with the same sized screen. Load a crap I say. Load a crap. His reactions were really funny for some reason.
Oh and Tron was alright, not great. Really made me wish I could have re-watched the original before I saw it. Haven’t seen it in many, many years. Doesn’t seem like the kind of movie you just rent like Indian Jones or Last Star Fighter. It’s apparently not available any place either. Which is weird. Seems like they were trying a bit hard to avoid any Matrix references or similarities. Actually it didn’t even seem that 3D-ish to me. Like one of those hologram stickers really. And I missed the first couple of minutes also. I would say see it in Imax, see it in 2D or wait for video. It’s one of those movies you’ll either like or not get.
Okay so it’s a new year. Last year I had the thing with the one blog entry a day which I kept up for eight months or so. Still getting comments about nip/tuck for some reason. It’s really weird. Anyway I haven’t come up with anything like that for this year yet. I don’t think I’ll do the blog thing again. Maybe just studying a little every day. Or stretching. Something like that.
I’ve been trying to come up with this theory about where computing could be going in the future. Or I should say one possible course even if it’s not really all that likely to be what will happen in the future.
See first we have small devices like iPhones and the various Android devices with more and more powerful processors and graphics power.
Then we have this new technology called Lightpeak: it’s kind of a competitor to USB 3 I think but it’s fiber optic with enough bandwidth to connect all the devices imaginable: the video, the network, disk drives, everything on one cable.
Then there’s SSDs that are ever increasing in capacity at the same time getting smaller and smaller.
Okay so we take all these things together and here’s my theory: we have our primary device, a PDA/phone type device for lack of a better term. It is what what we would carry around and use away from home.
Then at home some kind of a dock that connects to everything else. Everything else being the mouse, monitor, network, storage.
Okay for the storage, as I said it would be solid state which is getting smaller and smaller. So if it’s so small why does it have to look like drives do now? Why a rectangular box that has to attract attention to itself? There’s no reason really. So lets say the home storage resource isn’t a stack of boxes that look like hard drives. Lets say they’re normal everyday things that are just on your desk already. Pens, pencils, the cup that holds the pens, and…okay I don’t know. But the point is the storage is all tied to some kind of surface, like those charging pads they have now days, that’s connected to the lightpeak hub or whatever. So that’s the whole storage pool, completely invisible and redundant and always there.
Okay so also you have an image of your mobile device always in storage that auto-syncs every time you connect it. Lose the device just get a new one, connect it and it’s identical to the last time you plugged it in.
Also, similar kind of setup in your car. Another connector, goes into car mode and it’s the brain of your car with the turn-by-turn and voice activated what-not. And storage in the car of course. Same sort of mirror and backup.
And for security lets say it’s all encrypted and can easily be made dormant if the device is last or your car is stolen or whatever.
And lets say all the storage is further mirrored online and devices can be easily replaced because it’s all part of a subscription that’s tied to your internet and/or TV, whatever.
Okay I haven’t worked out all the details. I think I have some cool ideas though. Not that anything resembling this is likely to happen. Just kind of a brain storm, that’s about it.