Utopia

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.

With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.

"We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast ... to boot up like a TV," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google.

The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010, Pichai said. It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you'll have to purchase a Chrome OS device.

Google is currently working with unnamed computer manufacturers to define specifications for these computers, which Pichai said will include larger netbook-style computers with full-size keyboards, large trackpads and large displays.

Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives -- they will rely on non-volatile flash memory and Internet-based storage for saving all of your data.

All the applications will be web-based, meaning users won't have to install apps, manage updates or even backup their data. All data will be stored in the cloud, and users won't even have to bother with anti-virus software: Google claims it will monitor code to prevent malicious activity in Chrome OS web apps.

"Chrome OS is a totally rethought computer that will let you focus on the Internet, so you can stop worrying about your computer," according to a Google promotional video shown at the event, held at the Google campus in Mountain View, California.

As part of its announcement today, Pichai said that Google would be releasing all of the operating system's code and design documents to the public.

Introduced in July, Chrome OS is a Linux-based, open-source operating system centered on Google's Chrome browser. Applications will run exclusively inside the browser, Google said Thursday.

"As of today, the code will be fully open, which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as open developers," said Pichai.

The OS's focus on design is consistent with the company's stance that the future is in the web. In July, Vic Gundotra, Google's engineering vice president and developer evangelist, spoke on a panel about app stores, in which he said native apps (such as those available for the iPhone) would be obsolete in the future, and that the Web will "become the platform that matters."

"Every capability you want today, in the future it will be written as a web application," Pichai said Thursday.

Netbooks -- lightweight, low-powered sub-notebooks -- were the surprise hit of 2008 and 2009. However, with the growth of netbooks sales slowing -- and the prices of some full-powered notebooks dropping below $400 -- the continued viability of the netbook sector is an open question.

Though netbook shipments are falling below manufacturers' expectations, the inexpensive, low-powered devices appear to still be selling well. Pichai cited research figures from ABI research indicating that 35 million netbooks shipped in 2009, more than twice the number sold in 2008.

Manufacturers have yet to announce pricing on netbooks shipping with Chrome OS, but Google expects the cost to be about the same as current netbooks. On average, netbooks cost between $300 and $500.

Videos demonstrating Chrome OS's user interface, security, fast boot and other features are below the jump.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/20/google.os/index.html

hmm, this does sounds familiar..

yes, this is the beginning of a future physical computer just like what I saw in my dreams and I predicted in my writings previously!

Google Chrome OS does removes harddisk from the computers, and relies on web servers as data storage, this is a beginning of revolution in a computer world!

future computers, of which what I saw in my dream, where personal computers in the future would relies entirely on server computers, not only for data storage, but also all the data processing, graphics, drivers, etc. would be done on the servers, and what's in our hands is simply the transmitter and receiver with input and output units that is more sci-fi, either it has the capability to compacting the carbons in the atmosphere as screen or keyboard interface, or maybe it's more to a fluid interface systems, or maybe using sensors.

(read my original post here)

well, maybe now it's all just a dream, but do remember..

just like what Victor Hugo wrote in Les Misérables, "utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow". don't lose the dream! the fact that we enjoy all of this sophisticated technology is because of dreams of those people who had the dream and will to change the world.

in fact, Google had done it well, this is just the beginning, and I believe, not in a distant future, we will experience these things I saw in my dreams, and I had predicted..

but, too bad.. today I am still nobody and no one would listen to me, and I am jealous of Steve Jobs of Apple computers about his statement, how he predict back in 1980s that " all computers in the future would all be like this" (computers with GUI, just like what he saw in Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre).. and yes, he is right, he had done it with Macintosh, and look how proud he was back then..

Past/Present/Future

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Here's some drafts I found just now, and I decided to post it here..

It's about things that I have posted here, including the post about a dream I had (about future computers), my Tea House presentation project, and of course Leonardo Da Vinci..

Well, I remember when I was having a presentation for the Tea Walk project last semester. One of the panelist for my presentation, told me about my plan geometry, that I can only made plan that’s exactly like the star of betlehem.

(since my plan is based on the star of betlehem , but I used rectangles rather than square and I move it so it doesn’t looks symmetrical from the plan).

I asked why can’t I?

She said, it’s because there are some orders that I couldn’t change.

(but this is plan, ma’am, and I didn’t think that my planning doesn’t have anything to do with the ‘orders’ she mentioned)

and she continues, she mentioned Leonardo Da Vinci, maybe because I put the inverted writing (that’s made famous by Da Vinci), which I put intentionally, not because I wanted to imitate Da Vinci.

She said that, “you are not Da Vinci. God has given Da Vinci such gift that his brain is so brilliant that he could create his own or new orders.”

This is actually a public statement and it’s not offensive at all..

But I'm unpleased by hearing her statement.

Which means, I cannot surpass Da Vinci? I cannot create new orders just because I’m not Da Vinci?

I don’t believe in such thing, I do believe that everyone could do anything. Everyone get the same chance!

If it’s about gift-from-God-thing, (I’m sorry if I think too highly of myself) I believed that I’ve got the gift from God as well, I’ve got the potential..! I wouldn’t afford losing just because of that potential thing..

If it’s about hardwork, or maybe environments, etc. that boost his capabilities and made him succeed with all those achievements.. I could accept that..

And after having this dream, about this technology..

Something bothered me, we all know that’s Da Vinci products aren’t only arts.

He’s also a genius philosopher and scientist.

He had this vision of flying machine just like the modern helicopters. But the technology in his era wouldn’t allow him to create such flying machine..

Now I’m asking, isn’t it possible that he had the same vision just like me?

The idea’s just drilled to his brain (of course also after he put some thought on it)..

And he tried to sketch it, to realize it, but unfortunately.. The technology wouldn’t allow me to.. Just like this ring-sized computer I just dreamt of..

Or maybe famous writers of sci-fi books and films like James Bond, with this vision of modern gadgets. And George Lucas, with his vision of a laser blade called lightsaber, weapon of the Jedi.

He imagined that the source of the laser would be a crystal powered by self-charging power cell which is strong enough and small enough to be placed inside the hilt.

But our technology isn’t that advanced yet, and I don’t think that we can limit a light movement (where the lightsaber blade would span up to about 1.2m).

Actually I’ve had my own theory of possible lightsaber construction. It would not light or laser based blade, but rather heat based blade.

The ultilization of the heat isn't like vibroblade, where the blade is heated up with a very high frequency generator (that's why it's called vibroblade), but rather a fireblade.

Because I remember that fire were made of three aspects, oxygen, fuel, and heat (or the fire itself).

Oxygen exist everywhere, all we need is this ‘fuel’ that could easily distributed to 1.2m span requirements that’s fit into the hilt for a very long period of time (and if possible, self-charging like the lightsaber power cell). And all we need is just an ignition button to fire up..!

Well, just to track back to possibilities of a more advanced ancient technology, George Lucas put this line in every Star Wars opening “a long time ago, in the galaxy far far away”.

See the line? ‘a long time ago’.. Maybe he also realized that there are possibilities that super advanced technology does exist in the past..!

Then, what's so special about Da Vinci? He's just an ordinary human, and a dreamer like us..

Soon we'll be living in the future..

Do you believe that some things in life exist because they were meant to exist?

Or maybe, it’s there because it’s meant to be there?

I’ve been taught recently about things called Genius Loci, or ‘spirit of the place’ that somewhat drove people to made a certain space so special in a macrospace.

In other word, the spirit somewhat affecting things and create only an exact condition (of what it meant to be) or something that’s meant to be there or that way.

They’re special because they really are special..

I also understand that sometimes, things become special because of some great achievements, or maybe a breakthrough or something new that’s unconsciously made people to start labeling things to these achievements, breakthroughs or anything else that’s worth, and put them in place in their hearts.

Just like iPod and Walkman, just name about other portable music player that’s sounds so perfect.. Honestly, I can’t think about anything good except these two.

And this is what labels are..

Okay, do you remember the song Yesterday from The Beatles?

Paul McCartney first got the tunes from his dream, and when he woke up, he jumps to his piano and trying to play the tunes he heard in his dream so it won’t just lost away.

Recently, I’ve been having weird dreams for the last few days. And just now, I’ve had a very interesting dream.

A similar dream to McCartney’s.. Well, it’s not about music, but a vision of a future technology.

I dreamt about a future computer, how it looks like, how it works, and the logic behind these.

Here’s what I’ve been dreaming about..

First, I dreamt about watching an ad video of latest Apple Computer product (which only exist in my dream).

Their latest product, if I still remember, it's another MacBook series. Similar to MacBook Air, not in the context of its shape or specs, but rather in the context of it’s portability.

This new product integrates the iDisk system to it's own computing system..

I mean, this latest MacBook doesn’t have any physical harddisk. All the access to the data storage is done wirelessly. Which also means the internet connections are supposed to be incredibly fast.

(And this is in my dream, okay? So just, consider that it is already fast enough, as fast as the internet connections in the future maybe?)

This is just like what Steve Jobs intention by releasing MacBook Air!

A wireless future..

Still in my dream, then suddenly, all the videos I’ve been watching on YouTube are about Apple Computer and wireless technology.

Greater potentials of wireless technology for future computers.

Let’s say, each parts of hardware that runs the computer are connected wirelessly.

Each hardware has it’s own wireless transmitters.

Then, future computer should have been incredibly small, light and ultra portable..

And now, this is my own McCartney’s Yesterday part..

Something suddenly popped out in my head. I talked to myself (in my dream of course), “Ah, I know how the future computers will looks like, it will be as big as a ring in our finger”.

Then suddenly, all the details about this ring computer just came up.

Like it was already there before..

I know all about it, how it’s work, and the mechanism, theoretically..

This ring-sized computer would have a control stick as big as main control stick in Sony Ericssons phones. This control stick can move to all directions (not 4 directions like phones).

This control stick is used to navigate the pointer in the computer screen.

To click, simply click the control stick, just like phones..

Now where’s the screen and the keyboards? The ring is actually projected the screen to the air from nothing. Remember watching sci-fi films and games where computers don’t have any physical screens and keyboards? They are actually projected in the air, but it’s touchable (after projected).

The interface would be like iPod touch or iPhone, where there is only one button. Just push the main button (in this case, the control stick), the computer will be activated and the screen will be projected. To turn of, just navigate through the screen and choose the turn off or shut down option. Or maybe, by pressing the main button long enough to shut the computer down. Simple..!

The ring-sized computer would comprise of ultra fast and ultra small nano-processor, ultra small lens that could manipulate carbon particles in the air to project (or maybe create) the screen and keyboard, and ultra small and strong battery.

Of course they’re all works wirelessly with connection to a server that holds and handle all the tasks and any data processes. The server will handle everything, and we only need to carry this ring-sized computer to do any computing tasks..

And just like McCartney, after I woke up, I went to my computer and start writing, so it wont just lost away..haha..

All of these things I mentioned, maybe are possible in the future, when we achieved a super-advanced technology. I remember my lecturer, Mr. Lim Take Bane mentioned about his own theory of the famous Crystal Skulls.

He said that it’s could possibly a source of knowledge, maybe it’s a crystal based processors, harddisk, etc. which could store much more data than silicone (which we used today).

I agreed with his idea of this crystal-based technology, I even had my own theory if we relate back to ancient technology, which allows them to create such well, designed and arranged structures like the pyramids and great temples.

Isn’t it possible if ancient people are really more advanced than us, that they could use other materials or mediums to transmit energy (like electricity, heat, etc.)?

If our civilization today is more electricity based which transmitted through conductors like steels and other metals, and wave based such as these wireless technology.

Maybe the ancient people had already found the next generation of technology!?

That’s why we never met any metal wiring, or any technology similar to ours today, on these ancient sites..

But sometimes, we do meet some unidentified figures or something in their pictures, glyph, or writings.

What is it? UFO? Extraterrestrials? Or maybe, these ancient technologies that they had to build their structures that we haven't understand yet.

We actually are about to leave the digital era, we’re about to enter the next era of technology, the fluid interface.

Let's just see, students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.

The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done..

This is just like what I’ve been talking about my vision of ring-sized computer!

The future is near. Soon, we'll be living in the future..!

And I refuse to sleep

Monday, January 12, 2009

A little sorry for everyone, actually I'd like to post a continuation of my previous post, because it's not ends there. There are still lot of things to wrote, and I haven't finished it..

And well actually I got little distractions, I experienced a thing called collective dreaming (that's my own). I ever experienced this when I was a little kid where I awoke in dreams as another person, not me, not myself.

I was an illegal immigrant who tried to get inside the ship, Titanic (why Titanic?? I don't know exactly, but I just know that it was Titanic). I hid inside a wooden crate and I lost sense of time when I was there until I heard that people's voices panicking and I understand that the ship's drowning..

I'm trying to find my mom who hid in another crate, and then I saw my mom (and my mom isn't my mother in the real world, she was a different person and she called me not with my name, it's someone else's name but somehow I reacted like it was really my name.

We were trapped inside the ship's storage with other immigrants and I don't recall how we survived. I just remember there are group of small boats with candles at both end of each ships.

We reached the shore and finally a small town, from the people and the shape of the houses it looks like I'm in the 19th century town..

Suddenly after these horrible things happened, there's a running festival in the town, I was one of the participants, as the race goes by, I can recall no more details about the dream..

And it's morning already..

Okay, here are some things that I'd like to explain.

Well I have this dream not because I have just watched Titanic (you know, I was very young back then and my parents wouldn't allow me to watch Titanic), so it doesn't have anything to do with excitements after watching some movies or something like that.

And the era, yes.. It looks like it was in the 19th century, I wore clothes like an English paperboy in the 19th century..

Well, what I'm trying to say that, I experience the same experience in dreaming, where I have continuous conciseness like I was somewhere else and experience those kinds of feelings. But for this one, I wasn't really another person, and I can still feel the dream's sensation even after I woke.

I know you might say it's a normal thing when we experience such different sensation and we can still felt it when we woken up. Well I know the 'normal thing' in dreaming! I have experienced that as well, I ever dreamt about fighting with my brother and I suddenly woke up, with the emotional sensation that's still in my head, I punched my brother who was sleeping beside me.. hahaha..

But these dreams that I was talking about, are different, it's not just some kinds of attached emotions from the dreams. It's like creating collective consciousness in your head..

And how does it feel?? It feels a little pleasant but also terrible.

Dreams have always been like that, it taunts you everyday. I'd like to refuse sleep, but my body won't allow me to..