PC Authority magazine presents 10 technologies that appeared most promising to change our way of life, and that really disappointed us.
Popular int the 90, the virtual reality technology was the one that should the most radically change the world. Equipped with a headset and a combination, the adventurer had to move in an artificial world and interact with beings and things in this world.
The first experiments have stumbled on a physiological problem: the human body supports badly moving in a virtual world.
But the VR still gave birth to something: the Wiimote allows to interact with a game per body movements, as if we were in the action. The promise is always remaining.
Many attempts were made to dethrone Google, and we talked a lot of new ways of responding to queries: Cuil, Wikia by the founder of Wikipedia, Acoonaa. These attempts have failed and in fact, Google increased its market share over competitors!
They however have had the advantage to promote ideas and this is the Google search engine itself which is changing its algorithm and shows improvement in SERPS that benefit from new data.
Much has been said about voice recognition, and software were sold to help write articles verbally, the voice being converted into text.
However, despite the increase in computing power, this field has not progressed. Utilities that use the procedure in a very primary still seem boring to the user.
A revolutionary computer buyer but too expensive.
We can not talk of failure, Apple succeeded in drawing the conclusion and designed the Macintosh whose success is global and has also inspired Windows.
The firm has also experienced other failures that after improvements are transformed into success. One example of the Newton personal assistant and his successor, the iPhone.
A technology for transmitting data at high speed that is not imposed, primarily because Web technologies slow data processing.
This connector to replace the USB that was too slow. But manufacturers have responded and developed the USB 2 twenty times faster, and more universal. Firewire therefore become unnecessary.
eSata also had little success due to a design flaw: it carries the signal, but not energy. This could be corrected with Power eSata.
It was to connect all devices without son. It had no success. Most mouse and wireless keyboards use their own protocol.
A 64-bit processor server designed by Intel. The lack of compatibility has hampered its adoption by businesses.
Microsoft wanted to make a competitor to the iPod. But lack of applications had lead to little success and lack of success to few applications. We must be the first to succeed!
Many companies buy computers with Vista and replace it with XP, faster, simpler. Vista is cumbersome and slow.
Vista incorporates security features for annoying the user.
Frequent message alerts are irritating. You can not even use it on the netBook which brings XP beside Linux!
Between the poorly design and the excessive optimism with regards to future progress, sources of disappointment are numerous.
But even next to successful technologies ignored by the article (eg mobiles), from technologies that do not promise, however it comes out something and that is why the world is changing quickly.
The article: PC Authority.