1. Futuristic Technology By Zhun LiuPeriod 8

2. What are futuristic technologies? Futuristic technologies are items andproducts that will become availablefor purchasing in the future. Their features are ourcurrent imagination.BEYOND 3. Volvo plans self-drivingcars in 2014,envisions accident-freefleet by 2020 Self-driving cars will letyou sit back and text yourBFF all you want withoutworrying about a totaledcar. 4. Think of how many more of your friendsyoull be able to see now that your see-through smartphone wont block yourfield of vision while youre texting! 5. Your fun moment will neverdisappear again in a blink of aneye!!! Google Glass will give you the abilityto say "Glass, record a video" andhave video be recorded without everclicking a button. 6. Interview Q: What do you think the next big changes will be? A: Well, I think one huge change that were really justbeginning to look into is mobile devices. America is thelast country to figure out that mobile devices matter. And,over the past 10 years, if you take a look at whatcounties really adopted mostly mobile phones, butother devices it was pretty much the entire planetexcept the United States. And the [United States] reallydidnt jump on until the iPhone took off and then Androidphones. So, we are just beginning to see some of thereally big transformations and I think that reallypotentially disrupts just about any part of education aswell as civic life. with Steve from AIG Tech. Department 7. Q: Looking 10 years intothe future, how do you seemobile technologies beingused in higher educationclassrooms and courses andhow do you see themchanging the way thatinstitutions go aboutteaching? A: In a classroom, discussion really extends it through spaceand time to cover the entire campus. If we use technologysuch as augmented reality, we can go even further. So, forexample, if were in an art class and working on a project, wecould install that digital project on location in campus so thatour prof or the other students or that so anybody could noticethat object once they reach a certain location of the campus.Meanwhile, if you and I are working and want to find a thirdperson, we could use augmented reality later to discoverwhere that person is so we could meet him or her. Were justbeginning to look into what this means. 8. Q: How do you see the future in terms of personaldata, its collection, use, and who should control andregulate this on behalf of internet users? A: There are some nuanceddifferences between howEuropean and the USgovernment think about certainkinds of data, such asbiometric. In Europe it is moreregulated. But there is a biggerquestion here. The majority ofthe worlds countries aredescribed by Freedom Houseas autocratic. As theirpopulations come online, it isunlikely that the citizens will findmuch protection from theirgovernments. This means wehave to fight hard to helpsafeguard their privacy andsecurity. 9. Barnes & Noble Shares Jump on Sign of MicrosoftBarnes & Noble Shares Jump on Sign of MicrosoftInterest in NookInterest in Nook Shares of Barnes & Noble skyrocketed in early trading onThursday after a report said Microsoft was offering $1billion for the digital assets of the booksellers e-readerbusiness. Shares of Barnes & Noble closed up 24.25 percent, at$22.08. Investors appeared encouraged by signs that there mightbe a deal for the digital arm of Nook Media. The reportappeared on the technology blog TechCrunch, which citedinternal Microsoft documents. Microsoft already owns about 17.6 percent of the Nookdivision, having paid $300 million last year. According toTechCrunch, the company would seek to take over theunits e-books and devices operations. The Nook business would then focus on selling throughapps on third party devices. A person briefed on the matter confirmed the authenticityof the documents, but added that they appeared to be atleast several weeks old. It is not clear what Microsoftscurrent thinking is or whether it will reach a deal withBarnes & Noble. This person cautioned that any such transaction was atleast several weeks away. News of Microsofts interest comes over two monthsafter Leonard S. Riggio, Barnes & Nobles chairman,disclosed his effort to buy the booksellers 689 stores. By consummating deals with Mr. Riggio and Microsoft,Barnes & Noble could effectively sell off its most viablebusinesses at a time when both face significant challenges. A spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble declined to comment.A representative for Microsoft was not immediatelyavailable for comment. In December, Pearson, the British educational publisherand owner of The Financial Times, agreed to acquire a 5percent stake in Nook Media. That investment valued NookMedia in its entirety at nearly $1.8 billion. 10. For more inFormation onFor more inFormation onFuturistic technology, pleaseFuturistic technology, pleasecheck out the Followingcheck out the Followingsources:sources: http://http://itechfuture.comitechfuture.com// http://http://gajitz.comgajitz.com// http://http://www.businessinsider.comwww.businessinsider.com 11. Questions What are the relationship between virtualreality and social networks? How long till we have a computer likeIronmans? Why are Billion dollar tech companiesinvesting so heavily in mobile? What will future robots look like? In whatdirections are scientist working andthinking? 12. Citations "Technology:HowLongtillWeHaveaComputerlikeIronmans?"Quora.N.p.,n.d.Web.09May2013. "15FuturisticTechnologiesThatWillBeCommonplacein10Years."MsnNOW.N.p.,n.d.Web.09May2013. HeresSomeOfTheFuturisticTechnologyBeingDevelopedByTheGeniusesAtMIT."BusinessInsider.N.p.,n.d.Web.09May2013. 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