As one decade wraps up, 2010 is sure to bring great advances in technology. Looking back over the past ten years, we as consumers have enjoyed advances which can only be praised, I for one can remember my first digital camera, sporting a futuristic 2.1 megapixels and costing a whopping 350 Pounds it was the most high tech piece of kit on the market, today camera's exist which have ten-folded that megapixel count, as well as a CCD which is a fraction of the size making the camera itself even smaller. The 35mm film has finally found its place in our history books, and it is certain that future generations will question why anyone would ever have want to feed silver halide coated film into a camera.
Another technology which has drastically changed over the past ten years is the trusty old television set. Gone are the days where your viewing pleasures were restricted to size, gone also are the days where you need to throw a party just to get enough friends over to congregate around the Television set that you want to move from one side of the room to another. Todays technology allows you to literally hang a TV using a wire on the wall as you would a picture and with normal retailers stocking TV's sizing up the high 65 inches and manufactures offering even larger servings, size is really not an issue anymore.
The past ten years have offered us technology beyond our wildest dreams, but now we must turn our attentions to the near future, what will be the norm in ten years time, as the ipod killed the walkman, will something come along and wipe us free from apples greatest invention, it seems only time will tell, but in the meantime whispers are spreading around the web, the gossip directs it's attention to Apple patents which seem to suggest Apple is planning on putting a Tablet on the market. Some critics of the netbook have been chanting the demise of the netbook and maybe it will be the Apple Tablet which delivers that sinking blow.
Over the past six months rumour's have seemed to be just that with Apple rejecting all stories that its working on a tablet, but as reported by the financial times a few days before christmas Apple has rented a stage in San Francisco in the last week of January 2010, We could have an Apple tablet as early as Easter. All we can do is wait, eventually time will unwind and all things that seem to be unknown will be shown the light of day.
What more can I say, just keep an eye out for those 3D television sets, the smarter editions of smart-phones, and if were lucky a new way of saving the planet. We must continue developing but we must also implement greener technologies. This is my advise not only for the end user providers but more so for the producers of energy itself.
