Do you ever feel a bit overwhelmed by technology? Sometimes I think the world may actually soon start looking like it does in old movies and TV shows set in the distant future. You know, the ones in which people ride in flying cars, talk to holograms, and have computer chips inside their heads?
Well, we don’t have flying cars yet, but in many ways I think we have technologies today that are far more advanced than any movie director in the 1960’s could have ever thought of – just look at the internet, and the iPhone!
And on the topic of smart phones, it looks like they’re about to get a lot smarter.
This week, the geeks at Google unveiled some of the new tech ideas they’ve been working on behind the scenes. Apparently we could soon be having live phone conversations with people who don’t speak the same language by using a phone app that will translate our speech! If you’ve ever read ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’, by Douglas Adams, you might be thinking that this sounds far more appealing than sticking a Babel fish in your ear!
We will also be able to take a photo of a restaurant menu written in German and have it translated into English within seconds. And what about this – an app that can diagnose your cough?!
Personally, a lot of this makes my head spin. Don’t get me wrong – I grew up with new technologies, I love my iPhone and I use social networking sites regularly, but there are times when it feels exhausting just to try to keep up.
For us living here in Bangalore, of course, this is all good news. The IT era of Telco’s and technology is well upon us!
Honestly though, I think that Google should put their efforts into creating a flying skate board, just like the one that Michael J Fox rides
in the film Back to the Future 2.
Contributed by Jeremy Veitch
