During the presentation, he shared his experience in the past and he also talked about the future. Here, I am quoting his word: "We drive into the future using only our rear view, so the best way to predict the future is to invent it." Our teacher Dan is a inventor, maybe it's because he got the influence form him, maybe I should become a inventor too.
Nowadays, computer power double every 24 months, form 1980 to 2008, we have four million times more memory, it's a remarkable growth.
Wayne made some comparisons, digital vs film photography, desktop vs press publishing, Leds vs lights. Not long ago, Leds is slow power, low quality control and expensive. Now it become more reliable and soon become the trends. He thinks that the next innovation is the batteries.
When we are looking into the future, you are wrong and right. For example, Charles Babbage build an Analytical Engine in 1837. His idea is brilliant, but also wrong.
Three years ago, there is a movie "Minority Report", it's muti-touch computer makes lots of people lose their jaw, people are saying:"it's so amazing, how can it happen?" and "Holly crap, it's so cool." Now it's no big deal, GestureTek, Microsoft Surface, they all have multi-touch now. Even cell phone has multi-touch too--iPhone. We may expect the everything will be touch based in the next four to five years.
He also think the future is the wireless. We got to extends the idea in the whole different way.Winner are the people who innovates, it's our challenge.
