Technology Trends – It is always Back to the future!

*Picture related :-) if you know what I mean!

Do you remember the first ever available PCs and computers, which YOU used in your schools or colleges?

Have you ever stopped to think if there has actually been a radical techno-evolution in all these years?

And, has the technology really changed that fast?

On a personal level, I feel that the popularization of technology and standards not only helps establish techno-standards, but enables them to undergo the crucial survival-of-the-fittest routine.

This in turn ultimately ends up giving better services to the user, i.e. you and me.

This article at Gizmodo, sums it up really nicely.

It tries to guess the prevalence of current technology 15-20 years into the future.

I feel most of them would still be going strong in the 20 year timeline.

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Mystery Cometh… - Russian Scientists Drilling into 20 million year old Vostok, the Antarctic Lake, Fall Silent….

 

A team of Russian researchers in Antarctica from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) had been drilling for weeks to reach the 20 million years old subglacial water body.

Quoting io9.com:
“Vostok is thought to harbor conditions similar to those of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the discovery of life in the lake's inky depths would significantly strengthen the prospect of discovering life on either of these icy bodies.”

AND Now they cannot be contacted. They have been under radio silence since 5 days (and counting).

The scientists were on the verge of boring the two mile ice surface and breaking in the lake which is as older as the Dinosaurs.

It may seem as a plot of a 2012 sci-fi thriller…. but you never know…. 20 million years is a really long time.

I mean, what course evolution or natural selection took, considering the ecology of something as frigid as this, is anyone's guess.

Countless movies have been made, mystery science fiction has been written, but still we are constantly inquisitive and human curiosity always needs proof.

But now what actually has happened is but a speculation limited only by our deepest fears….

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