It's always tough to consider what the future of technology will bring when looking too far into the future, however, when you look at under 1 year or 2 down the line, it's not too hard to see what's been developed and what patnerships are forming and what's next.
As we already know, Google and Sony are teaming up to create "internet TV". However, it is rumored that Sony is teaming up with Google on the Playstation Phone which should debut in 2011. If this is true, it only seems obvious that if Sony wants to compete with Apple along with Google, that the Playstation Tablet is next.
It's unclear whether or not they will call either of these devices the "Playstation Portable 2" or PSP2 for short, or if they will keep that as a seperate device, or perhaps no longer use that term to describe either of their products. Maybe they will even use the names "PSP2 and PSP3" for both of them while using the alternate name "Playstation Phone" and "Playstation Tablet". However, that's minor details that don't concern anyone that is simply trying to envision the future of technology.
It's my belief that the combination of Sony products that have recently debuted, (Playstation 3, Playstation Move accessory for the PS3 and 3d TV, as well as the PS3 and PS3 move allowing gaming that is compatible with 3d TV) along with new advancements in partnerships with Netflix and Hulu Plus making games deliverable to PS 3 consoles, combined with the future release of the Playstation Phone and the partnerships with Google, that Sony is ready to really try to make a crack into the Apple market.
Anyone else, I would laugh, and if Sony wasn't partnered with Google, they still might not have a chance. But Sony, just like Apple is known for it's large loyal customer base that buys the new systems year after year. We're talking about the original sony playstation as well as the playstation 2 selling over 100 million copies world wide. Playstation 3 has struggled to sell that many and as of the end of September is 3rd after the Wii an Xbox360.
However, it seems that with the Playstation Move that it will continue to increase it's sales and the Playstation Portable sold over 50 Million as well. The combination of portable console markets gaining loyal customers that nintendo currently is dominating, but a new innovation will make it possible to gain more customers, along with console gamers that have 10s of millions of customer that will easily eclipse 100 million, despite xbox becoming more of a force... in combination with all of the Sony TVs and the partnership with Google could easily be enough to start giving Apple a run for it's money on smart phone sales. Combine that with Sony building off that success and releasing a playstation tablet or "gamer's ipad" and Sony could suddenly become a huge force and innovator in what is currently Apple's market, possibly leading to apple starting to create TVs and game consoles to start innovating in Sony's market...
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Monday, November 1, 2010
Gamer Of The Future
Hey Gamers,
I know I haven't really updated this blog, unfortunately I haven't been as active as I would have liked. I will keep this blog up, as I think it will be a useful reference to look back on in the years to come. However, in the meantime I have started something that is called Gamer Of The Future... The problem with this blog that you're reading now is that once the playstation is already here, the site doesn't have as much value. Certainly I can still talk about playstation 4 and everything, but what then? What happens in 10 years? I think the important thing is that I build a site with a community that is dedicated towards all the information about gaming of today, and gaming of tommorrow.
I have started to update this blog a little bit more, and I haven't really updated gamer of the future. However, I think you want to bookmark that site as eventually once the playstation 4 is released, the site will only talk about current games and technology. Since you're probably here because you like the innovative thoughts and groundbreakingly new technology information, you're going to have to go elsewhere for that type of content. Sometime in the future, the gamer of the future site will be used for just that, but I have a lot on my plate at the moment. Either way, I thought you would like to here about it. Well, the playstation move just arrived so I'm off to try it out!
I know I haven't really updated this blog, unfortunately I haven't been as active as I would have liked. I will keep this blog up, as I think it will be a useful reference to look back on in the years to come. However, in the meantime I have started something that is called Gamer Of The Future... The problem with this blog that you're reading now is that once the playstation is already here, the site doesn't have as much value. Certainly I can still talk about playstation 4 and everything, but what then? What happens in 10 years? I think the important thing is that I build a site with a community that is dedicated towards all the information about gaming of today, and gaming of tommorrow.
I have started to update this blog a little bit more, and I haven't really updated gamer of the future. However, I think you want to bookmark that site as eventually once the playstation 4 is released, the site will only talk about current games and technology. Since you're probably here because you like the innovative thoughts and groundbreakingly new technology information, you're going to have to go elsewhere for that type of content. Sometime in the future, the gamer of the future site will be used for just that, but I have a lot on my plate at the moment. Either way, I thought you would like to here about it. Well, the playstation move just arrived so I'm off to try it out!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Playstation 4 to read minds, playstation 5 to cure cancer
We already know that the sony has the technology available to make playstation 4 read minds, but just what else could it do?
We've all heard the exagerations of any new product. The old joke goes "if you want to get something to sell, convince people it will be the cure for everything". Mock ads of products that take this line of marketing make fun of them for over promising and under deliver. We've seen fake ads show magic pills that give you instant enlightenment and knowledge, cure cancer, make the fat thin and fit, make the blind see and the crippled walk, give you perfect physical health, increase your sexual performance and helps you to get any man or woman you want to desire you. But what if someday that's not so far fetched afterall?
In a Previous post, back in June of 2007, I talked about how I believed the PS4 would contain what I call "thought process engineering". The idea is that not only would the playstation 4 be able to READ our thought processes, but with the assistence of a PS4 we could actually model our own thought processes in the exact way we wanted.
I'm very excited to say that part 1 of what I call "thought process engineering" is already not only possible, but easily attainable and probable, and we have yet to see the results of emotiv, but if profitable, playstation 4 will probably begin working on it right away.
But part 2, being able to use the PS4 to model our thought processes requires that the machine can not only receive and use this information but also transmit us and allow 2 way communication with... our own thoughts. (Your imaginary friend is back, and this time is just like you, lol!)
Say we wanted to feel more passion, desire, confidence, excitement, joy, etc. The idea is that if we have the technology for a game to READ our thoughts by detecting the vibrations of the brainwaves, why can't we also learn to have the next playstation game console be able to through the use of the console's game controller, it can actually TRANSMIT those desired thoughts and emotions back to us?
Certainly would take a new meaning to "controller" as it literally would be able to control our mind in the way that we allow it to. Obviously that might be a little scary so the user would certainly have to have the option of turning up or down the game's influence, or turn it completely off, but if we could harness this technology, our wildest dreams would only be a thought away from seeming like reality. And since we have to be able to visualize something before we can make it a reality, we could learn to simulate actual careers and train our minds to become better golfers or more musical or mathematical.
Studies show that our DNA can not only transmit light photons, but actually receive them as well. Photons, contain micro bits of information, and that information is constantly past back and forth. It would be great if a playstation 4 or wii 2 or xbox 720 or another future game console could harness this information and use it to advance technology.
Scientist wanted to create absolute zero, the idea being that there is zero movement between atoms and molecules. And so they built a machine that they thought would get them there. But it turns out the closer they got, the more and more energy was needed to get there, and when they got close, photons were still transmitting data. Some evidence shows that information can be sent light years away instantanously. Quantom String Theory seems to show evidence that there are universally long quantom strings that threads make up the entire universe and that information can be past through these strings. The ps4 potentially could tap into this knowledge by directing the flow of this information, the way we do with our thoughts everyday.
All of this information shows that there is at least a potential scientific explination for psychic phenomenon. But we can't tap into it if we continue to use less than 10% of our brains potential. We can't to our current knowledge sort that information very well, and w cant control HOW that information is transmitted and received.
But what if we could?
What if we could fiure out how to specifically direct the flow of information in such a way that we could transmit these messages. Eventually we could learn to pick up this new "language", by reguarly interracting with it, and use the senses we more fully understand (like sight and sound), to let us know what information is being sent to us. We could synchronize everyone to this same frequency so we could better learn to understand each other.
We could harness our own evolutionary power. People with growth deficiency or injuries could have the PS4 to stimulate growth hormones. People that were blind due to eye damage could have their brains receive the same information they would if they were actually seeing. People that couldn't walk, could stimulate signals in the brain to regain feeling, and perhaps advance the recovery. Perhaps cancer patients could even send have brainwaves sent to let their body know not to allow this growth.
This idea to record brainwaves and transmit them back to the same person, or even more advanced send them to someone else, or even more advanced, use a model to change those waves slightly and send them back has not been accomplished yet to my knowledge. The idea is that you use someone's brain waves make a mold of that pattern, and send them back to someone else. This is the reverse of what they do with Emotiv. So far we only have where man can mentally communicate with the game console. Emotiv tracks what you like about a particular game, and it may be able to better change it's game to suit your needs. Perhaps the breakthrough technology of the PS4 will be that we can take someone hooked up to a playstation 4 "controller" or brain remote, and not only will the machine be able to read the brainwaves, and change the game, but it might have a feature where you tell the machine what mood you are in on a scale of one to 10, and the game will use that information to actually record your brainwaves, and "reward" you by resubmitting these brainwaves back to you at a later time. Perhaps you will be able to "upload" your own thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and have them transmitted back to you whenever you choose, or even tell the machine what thesefeelings are, and the game will associate certain thoughts and feelings with actions in the game. So you weren't able to save the new final fantasy character, perhaps you will feel sad.
I could even speculate that perhaps playstation 4, 5, or 6 would tap into a "universal consciousness" by "logging in" online, and then have your brainwaves synchronized with other gamers that have similar brainwaves. Perhaps we could even use this technology to directly transmit thoughts with friends. Perhaps we could "matrix" the information much like Keanu Reaves was programed in the movie the matrix to download the skills to instantly learn martial arts, and to learn to fly a helicopter. Who knows what the future could bring. With a future game console, maybe 2, 3 or 4 game generations away, the information age would expload into a new age as we would not only be able to upload all the information, but have all of the mental and emotional abilities we wanted, and even stimulate our growth hormones to give us over time the physical abilities we wanted.
This all might sound a little weird, especially the whole tapping into "universal consciousness" by having everyone connect together and learn of each other's thoughts, and certainly it would have to be used with great care... But if this could be perfected, we could all better come to a more positive understanding of each other, and there would be no need for hatred and predjudice... so now it could create world peace.
I'm laughing as I type this, because not only does this describe the potential of future PS4s and PS5s, but the power of our own mind, and because of what I'm actually saying the future could bring.
So the old saying is to give them the idea that your product can be the cure for all. I think a better approach would be to actually create something that achieves results. So perhaps the future of gaming, such as future sony playstations, could do exactly like these psuedo-ads of magic pills could do and then some.
Coming soon, the playstation 4 and playstation 5. It will give you instant enlightenment and knowledge, cure cancer, make the fat thin and fit, make the blind see and the crippled walk, give you perfect physical health, increase your sexual performance and helps you to get any man or woman you want to desire you.... oh yeah... and create world peace.
Official PS4 site
We've all heard the exagerations of any new product. The old joke goes "if you want to get something to sell, convince people it will be the cure for everything". Mock ads of products that take this line of marketing make fun of them for over promising and under deliver. We've seen fake ads show magic pills that give you instant enlightenment and knowledge, cure cancer, make the fat thin and fit, make the blind see and the crippled walk, give you perfect physical health, increase your sexual performance and helps you to get any man or woman you want to desire you. But what if someday that's not so far fetched afterall?
In a Previous post, back in June of 2007, I talked about how I believed the PS4 would contain what I call "thought process engineering". The idea is that not only would the playstation 4 be able to READ our thought processes, but with the assistence of a PS4 we could actually model our own thought processes in the exact way we wanted.
I'm very excited to say that part 1 of what I call "thought process engineering" is already not only possible, but easily attainable and probable, and we have yet to see the results of emotiv, but if profitable, playstation 4 will probably begin working on it right away.
But part 2, being able to use the PS4 to model our thought processes requires that the machine can not only receive and use this information but also transmit us and allow 2 way communication with... our own thoughts. (Your imaginary friend is back, and this time is just like you, lol!)
Say we wanted to feel more passion, desire, confidence, excitement, joy, etc. The idea is that if we have the technology for a game to READ our thoughts by detecting the vibrations of the brainwaves, why can't we also learn to have the next playstation game console be able to through the use of the console's game controller, it can actually TRANSMIT those desired thoughts and emotions back to us?
Certainly would take a new meaning to "controller" as it literally would be able to control our mind in the way that we allow it to. Obviously that might be a little scary so the user would certainly have to have the option of turning up or down the game's influence, or turn it completely off, but if we could harness this technology, our wildest dreams would only be a thought away from seeming like reality. And since we have to be able to visualize something before we can make it a reality, we could learn to simulate actual careers and train our minds to become better golfers or more musical or mathematical.
Studies show that our DNA can not only transmit light photons, but actually receive them as well. Photons, contain micro bits of information, and that information is constantly past back and forth. It would be great if a playstation 4 or wii 2 or xbox 720 or another future game console could harness this information and use it to advance technology.
Scientist wanted to create absolute zero, the idea being that there is zero movement between atoms and molecules. And so they built a machine that they thought would get them there. But it turns out the closer they got, the more and more energy was needed to get there, and when they got close, photons were still transmitting data. Some evidence shows that information can be sent light years away instantanously. Quantom String Theory seems to show evidence that there are universally long quantom strings that threads make up the entire universe and that information can be past through these strings. The ps4 potentially could tap into this knowledge by directing the flow of this information, the way we do with our thoughts everyday.
All of this information shows that there is at least a potential scientific explination for psychic phenomenon. But we can't tap into it if we continue to use less than 10% of our brains potential. We can't to our current knowledge sort that information very well, and w cant control HOW that information is transmitted and received.
But what if we could?
What if we could fiure out how to specifically direct the flow of information in such a way that we could transmit these messages. Eventually we could learn to pick up this new "language", by reguarly interracting with it, and use the senses we more fully understand (like sight and sound), to let us know what information is being sent to us. We could synchronize everyone to this same frequency so we could better learn to understand each other.
We could harness our own evolutionary power. People with growth deficiency or injuries could have the PS4 to stimulate growth hormones. People that were blind due to eye damage could have their brains receive the same information they would if they were actually seeing. People that couldn't walk, could stimulate signals in the brain to regain feeling, and perhaps advance the recovery. Perhaps cancer patients could even send have brainwaves sent to let their body know not to allow this growth.
This idea to record brainwaves and transmit them back to the same person, or even more advanced send them to someone else, or even more advanced, use a model to change those waves slightly and send them back has not been accomplished yet to my knowledge. The idea is that you use someone's brain waves make a mold of that pattern, and send them back to someone else. This is the reverse of what they do with Emotiv. So far we only have where man can mentally communicate with the game console. Emotiv tracks what you like about a particular game, and it may be able to better change it's game to suit your needs. Perhaps the breakthrough technology of the PS4 will be that we can take someone hooked up to a playstation 4 "controller" or brain remote, and not only will the machine be able to read the brainwaves, and change the game, but it might have a feature where you tell the machine what mood you are in on a scale of one to 10, and the game will use that information to actually record your brainwaves, and "reward" you by resubmitting these brainwaves back to you at a later time. Perhaps you will be able to "upload" your own thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and have them transmitted back to you whenever you choose, or even tell the machine what thesefeelings are, and the game will associate certain thoughts and feelings with actions in the game. So you weren't able to save the new final fantasy character, perhaps you will feel sad.
I could even speculate that perhaps playstation 4, 5, or 6 would tap into a "universal consciousness" by "logging in" online, and then have your brainwaves synchronized with other gamers that have similar brainwaves. Perhaps we could even use this technology to directly transmit thoughts with friends. Perhaps we could "matrix" the information much like Keanu Reaves was programed in the movie the matrix to download the skills to instantly learn martial arts, and to learn to fly a helicopter. Who knows what the future could bring. With a future game console, maybe 2, 3 or 4 game generations away, the information age would expload into a new age as we would not only be able to upload all the information, but have all of the mental and emotional abilities we wanted, and even stimulate our growth hormones to give us over time the physical abilities we wanted.
This all might sound a little weird, especially the whole tapping into "universal consciousness" by having everyone connect together and learn of each other's thoughts, and certainly it would have to be used with great care... But if this could be perfected, we could all better come to a more positive understanding of each other, and there would be no need for hatred and predjudice... so now it could create world peace.
I'm laughing as I type this, because not only does this describe the potential of future PS4s and PS5s, but the power of our own mind, and because of what I'm actually saying the future could bring.
So the old saying is to give them the idea that your product can be the cure for all. I think a better approach would be to actually create something that achieves results. So perhaps the future of gaming, such as future sony playstations, could do exactly like these psuedo-ads of magic pills could do and then some.
Coming soon, the playstation 4 and playstation 5. It will give you instant enlightenment and knowledge, cure cancer, make the fat thin and fit, make the blind see and the crippled walk, give you perfect physical health, increase your sexual performance and helps you to get any man or woman you want to desire you.... oh yeah... and create world peace.
Official PS4 site
Monday, February 12, 2007
2012 - a date for technology making the PS3 look primitive
*warning: this post (as well others) is extremely speculative, and makes a great assumption, and as such, it is not intended to be taken very seriously, however may express some things that are of great possibility .The year 2012... Significant in many aspects especially towards the end of the year. There are many theories that it will be the the end of the earth... The apocalypse based on Mayan predictions and the bible code. Actually some scholars now believe the Mayan calander is off and the end date actually isn't for much later than 2012, however collectively everyone is still focused on that date. Astrologically 2012 is known as "zero point". However others reason that although it is a significant, it will not be the death of the earth, but simply a new age. Apocalypse simply means "the awakening". A time when the current economical and political states will vanish, and the human race will become more aware of it's potential. Some even say that we will evolve and our DNA itself will transformed. Many say that the "photon belt" an astrological belt of a high frequency of energy and light is approaching. Sounds science fiction? Indeed!
But I'm not here to talk about the theories of humanity's end, or transformation, I'm here to talk about another reason that has not been mentioned yet. The overall knowledge in the world has been doubling throughout history. Not only that, but the rate in which it's doubling is accelerating exponentially. Currently the amount of available knowledge will double once in under 18 months. If the trend continues to speed up the doubling rate, the amount of knowledge at the beginning of 2012 will double every day. Towards the end of 2012 it will double every nanosecond. With this kind of knowledge, one can only wonder what it will do to technology. Moore's law says that the speed of technology (for a fixed size) doubles about once every 18 months. This was not done by looking back far enough to notice it's patterns, but I would guess that technology and knowledge run closely parallel.
Enough with the talk, what's this mean for PS4, which could very likely be released somewhere around that time?
The answer: Whatever you want it to.
Get out your sci-fi books and movies, because if any of this is remotely true, the things we will be able to do in 2012 will be seemingly an infinite amount of times more than we currently can. This means that your very thoughts will be able to influence the design of the game. The games will connect to the network where all thoughts will create additions and "tweak" the game. Perhaps that means the system is not a physical gaming system, but instead a neural network we can tap into with our thoughts, and that way connect with everything and everyone. With this collective consciousness (rather than collective unconscious which is what famed psychologist Karl Jung believed was something that many geniuses tapped into for all major source of inspiration), we will actively be able to access the seemingly infinite.
Believe it or not, but there already has been research study where participants using their thoughts and the type of technology that can detect brainwaves and intention, were able to, with a 70% success rate, move a cursor, grab an object and move it on a screen.
Imagine as you read, the mouse you move to scroll this page down will once not exist. Simply think of the cursor moving down, and it will.
But I suspect a much more intimate relationship of you and your PS4. Not only will you be able to control the games action with your thoughts, but the games actions will influence your thoughts in a way that seems real.
Smell touch taste and feel what you would if you were in the game (of course the pain-threshold would be tuned way down, and the amount of violent games with your entire "experience" would be greatly limited). If you're blind, deaf, or lack any of your 5 senses, you still will enjoy the experience as if you had all 5 senses. It will stimulate the areas of the brain of "seeing", and perhaps through such sensations it may actually be able to simulate sight for people that still have healthy eyes but are blind due to the brain being unable to access the areas of the brain responsible for sight.
Enjoy any experience known to man. Take a magical journey to wherever your mind can take you. In fact, the game may have a mind of its own, learning which experiences stimulates your desired emotional states, and giving you more of it. Instantly learn any skills in the world like Neo when he downloaded a ton of info and suddenly said "I know kung fu" or instantly became a pilot.
But as my imagination is limited somewhat by my knowledge, this is only the beginning.
So prepare yourself to enter the matrix, take the red pill and see just how far this rabbit hole will go. A world of fantasy and a never ending rabitt hole is on it's way.... if of course civilization survives long enough so we can experience it.
Official PS4 site
But I'm not here to talk about the theories of humanity's end, or transformation, I'm here to talk about another reason that has not been mentioned yet. The overall knowledge in the world has been doubling throughout history. Not only that, but the rate in which it's doubling is accelerating exponentially. Currently the amount of available knowledge will double once in under 18 months. If the trend continues to speed up the doubling rate, the amount of knowledge at the beginning of 2012 will double every day. Towards the end of 2012 it will double every nanosecond. With this kind of knowledge, one can only wonder what it will do to technology. Moore's law says that the speed of technology (for a fixed size) doubles about once every 18 months. This was not done by looking back far enough to notice it's patterns, but I would guess that technology and knowledge run closely parallel.
Enough with the talk, what's this mean for PS4, which could very likely be released somewhere around that time?
The answer: Whatever you want it to.
Get out your sci-fi books and movies, because if any of this is remotely true, the things we will be able to do in 2012 will be seemingly an infinite amount of times more than we currently can. This means that your very thoughts will be able to influence the design of the game. The games will connect to the network where all thoughts will create additions and "tweak" the game. Perhaps that means the system is not a physical gaming system, but instead a neural network we can tap into with our thoughts, and that way connect with everything and everyone. With this collective consciousness (rather than collective unconscious which is what famed psychologist Karl Jung believed was something that many geniuses tapped into for all major source of inspiration), we will actively be able to access the seemingly infinite.
Believe it or not, but there already has been research study where participants using their thoughts and the type of technology that can detect brainwaves and intention, were able to, with a 70% success rate, move a cursor, grab an object and move it on a screen.
Imagine as you read, the mouse you move to scroll this page down will once not exist. Simply think of the cursor moving down, and it will.
But I suspect a much more intimate relationship of you and your PS4. Not only will you be able to control the games action with your thoughts, but the games actions will influence your thoughts in a way that seems real.
Smell touch taste and feel what you would if you were in the game (of course the pain-threshold would be tuned way down, and the amount of violent games with your entire "experience" would be greatly limited). If you're blind, deaf, or lack any of your 5 senses, you still will enjoy the experience as if you had all 5 senses. It will stimulate the areas of the brain of "seeing", and perhaps through such sensations it may actually be able to simulate sight for people that still have healthy eyes but are blind due to the brain being unable to access the areas of the brain responsible for sight.
Enjoy any experience known to man. Take a magical journey to wherever your mind can take you. In fact, the game may have a mind of its own, learning which experiences stimulates your desired emotional states, and giving you more of it. Instantly learn any skills in the world like Neo when he downloaded a ton of info and suddenly said "I know kung fu" or instantly became a pilot.
But as my imagination is limited somewhat by my knowledge, this is only the beginning.
So prepare yourself to enter the matrix, take the red pill and see just how far this rabbit hole will go. A world of fantasy and a never ending rabitt hole is on it's way.... if of course civilization survives long enough so we can experience it.
Official PS4 site
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