Tech Visions - 2

Almost forgot that I own a blog!!! Heard about the gun shooting in Dawson college last month? Killed 1 and injured many others. Well, there have been so many posts over this topic anyway, people have written so much.... especially after it all happened, people came up to say, "You maniac, go shoot yourself and don't kill innocent people" and stuff..... man, whats the use commenting on it after everything is over Prolly people think by criticizing it they may prevent such incidents to happen again. But, do you really think it works??? I think on the contrary. But well, who cares.

One of the most amazing theories which came up was the guy couldn't fit in the society because of the Quebec culture and attitude of people here towards non-Quebec people, ie, rest of the 50% population of Montreal. Well, I kinda disagree to this one too.... how about the shooting in Concordia few years back, or the our favorite Columbine shooting??? Well, may be lets not discuss it here anymore, you never know who is reading it and who gets offended and then who tracks it down, and then they deport me to back to my homeland :( Anyway this was not supposed to what I am discussing here, I was supposed to write about those dreams I had where I had these visions about the technology ;)

Before I start, I would like to know, why is it that writing a blog in a "blog window" feels so cool and writing it in doc file and doing copy paste feels so stupid??? (does it? or is it just me?) Given that the 'save', 'spell check' and many other options are much easier to use in MS word. But I guess, blogging is supposed to be a "cool" thing. You just do it as a time-pass, its not very "serious" thing. Ohk, back to technology (geeeeeeek). I just realized that I already mentioned about the MP3 players. So lets start with something different. Business cards! or to be precise business e-cards. You receive that 2 line email with an attachment which is nothing but senders e-card, which could have been written in plane text..... NO.... we need colors!!! Well, how long do you think people are going to use the paper business cards? How about this small pager looking like e-card gadget, which can store just your business cards?

Ohk, here is goes. So MS corp comes up with new gadget, which looks like a pager, but thinner, comes in white or black, has screen as big as your business card and 4 navigation keys and 1 on/off button obviously, with a bluetooth connectivity (infra red is old fashioned...c'mmon). Now, your MS office comes with another utility to make e-cards, with a million basic templates and of course if you are not yet satisfied you can make your own! Prolly import a pdf or jpg and convert it into a e-card, lets call it the '.ecd' file. So the device, name it 'ECD 2000', can store one of your own business card and may be a zillion cards from other people (don't need more that a Gb I guess to do that, iPods got 60Gb these days, c'mmon). Ya, so what you do is, connect your ECD 2000 to your comp and transfer your own e-card to it and you are good to go! Now assuming that every 'rich' guy has got one of these ECD thingie, only thing you have to do is place 2 ECD's in front of each other and push 'Send' on one and 'Receive' on the other, and your e-card is transferred!! Cool? But obviously it has some limitations, like browsing through the cards etc. So 1 month later Sony comes up with a model of its own, 'Sony Eio', comes in silver, thinner than ECD 2000, metal finish, feather touch buttons (like the one on your microwave oven). Eio lets you browse through the cards alphabetically, so if you are looking for Mr. Xin Yan Zou (that is a REAL name), you don't have to start from A, B, C.....X. So life is peacefull, although you pay almost twice for the Eio compared to ECD 2000. But.... but, after 2 months Samsung comes up with 'SGX-A210' which has the capability to store upto 3 business e-cards of your own!!! Now that's COOL!! So you can make different type of e-cards and chose which one to give to whom! Later on with further improvements, you have ECD's which can not only transfer your own e-card but can send any other card from your database, given that the .ecd file is not 'locked' or 'protected', in which case only the owner can transfer it!

Well, not very exciting, but just wanted to get it off my head.... man can't sleep (well that has a different reason though). At 5 in the morning, writhing this dumb blog, only thing I wish is that somebody makes a gadget which could finish your thesis :((