The Benefits Of Internet Contact Lens

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Internet Contact Lenses
• Internet contact lenses will be one of the many amazing new technologies we are soon to see hit the mass market. In essence, these contact lenses will allow the user to see images and information laid on top of the “real world”. We can picture it like the virtual reality we used in class with our phone, only this time there would be no need to hold up a device in front of you. According to the book Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku, “images will be flashed directly through our contact lenses by inserting a chip and LCD display into the plastic. The task at hand is to display crisp images & future tasks include interaction with the information seen” (2011). Hand motions like the ones seen in the Iron Man movies might be a possibility. However, as of right now the benefits of these contact lenses include their use in the medical industry where surgeons might use them while conducting an operation or even in the gaming industry where players might interact with a game using real life objects and sceneries.

Electronic Paper
• In the future, we will have paper-thin devices that can connect to the internet, display images, video, etc. In other words, electronic paper will replace what we now call laptops or even tablets. So how is this possible? Well, there’s something called Moore’s law and it states that the number of transistors in computer hardware doubles every 18-24 months (Moore, 1965). This law has held up since the 1970’s and as a result, hardware prices have plummeted to the point where it now becomes cheaper to buy a new computer rather than fix it. If Moore’s law holds up, prices for microprocessors might even go down to costing dimes, nickels, if not pennies! When this occurs, electronic paper...

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...ower anymore, information does. Therefore it’s hard to believe that large companies like Google won’t use our information to benefit themselves. It’s almost like having a billion dollars in a safe that you have the passcode for, but can’t open.

Privacy vs. Internet of Things
• Having every object connected to the internet will mean that not only will the information you put online be monitored, but also that of your washing machine, heater, sink, chair, bathroom etc. This information can be tagged to your name and thus used by whomever finds it to be valuable. Businesses as well as government will use this technology together with Big Data to be able to track everything you and your family use at home so that they can make better decisions on how to either market things towards you specifically or in a much larger area. Home might not be as private as it once was.

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