Insanity #08 19 января 2001

Hi Tech - Stingrey about the world of technology.

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    $% Compilation by Stingrey, 2001



    Much of what is still a dozen years ago, it seemed
fantasy - to become a reality. Entering the XXI Century,
Insanity can not ignore a number of developments in science and
technique, and slowly get this information to all progressive
Spectrum of the public, opens a new heading - News
HIGH-TECH!


    Perhaps some critics of personality,
hasten to note: "Where the Spectrum, but where high technology 
..." I beg to differ with this view. Often

confused high power (hi-power) and high-tech
(Hitech), but also build capacity and technology development - 
it different things!



    Remember the Spectrum 80 and compare with current models -
power if it rose, it was only in the amount of memory. And now
compare the technical capabilities ... Is not it true that the 
difference more important, modern Spectrum is able to: work with

"Screw" and the CD-Rom drive, play MOD'y and any digital audio
quality unattainable for many Sound Blaster'ov and Amigo,
print any font on any printer, to communicate with the world
using modems and so on and so forth ...


    I will not mention the level of modern soft'a you
themselves all know, in this case too, the development of 
technologies - programming technologies.



     At first glance, much of what we
to tell in this column will not have direct relation to
Spectrum'u, but only at first glance ...


    Sooner or later, but somehow all the events described below
at least indirectly, but otrazyatsya on the fate of our 
computer. In can be no doubt - it will happen in addition to 
the desire (Or desire) of individuals, no matter how powerful 
and influential they are. Maybe this year Spectrum

will be central to your brain (yeah, yeah - it was your) home
will manage all electrical appliances. And soon
the future we are going to play in the Quake or Unreal (that 
you no longer please?) on our new Spectrum'e ...



    Do you think that all this fantasy? No - it is a reality
our new century!


    Welcome to the XXI century - the century come true hopes and
expectations century Russia, the age of entry into adulthood 
Speccy! 


                             <...>


    I think many people watched the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" and 
remember dolphin computer system?



    And now, according to the BBC, in one of London's museums 
exhibited robot controlled by the brain of fish! Sensors 
installed on it, send signals to the brain of lamprey, which, 
in turn, transmits instructions motor controlled robot.



                             *


    Most Spreading way to connect to the World
computer on the Internet today is a personal
computer. However, in the near future the situation may change.
So, at least, believe in the leadership of Motorola.
Representatives of the firms reported the development of special
technology that will allow you to connect to the Internet via
most conventional TV. True to this, all the same necessary
optional - modem.


                             *


    If at Motorola decided to podklyucht Internet'u
TV, here's the Swedish firm Ericsson and Electrolux decided
do refrigerators. And jointly developed (and
to mass production), a new refrigerator, which
he knows what is inside him, ready at any moment
offer you some recipes just one of those products,
that are available. If some ingredients or
products do not have to cook a particular dish
he fridge ready to immediately order them via the Internet at
online communication from the nearest connected to the global 
network shop.



     Product Registration takes place at a time when you
put them in the fridge, carrying past the door, which
mounted scanner reads the product code. Among other things,
Computer refrigerator to remember when you laid in the fridge
these or other products, and prohibit you to use those
that may already be prsrocheny not are fit for consumption.
If click on the area of ​​the screen, you lose the fridge
video clip in which a professional chef demonstrate
how to properly prepare a particular dish.


     But the pictures - funny faces, which means members
family. These are inputs to the personal computer of each page
of them. Anyone can leave the screen through the fridge
touch keyboard text messages like: "Mom, I ate and went away
in the movie, "or" Sonny, soup on the stove, and teach you to 
make an omelet our refrigerator, "- instead of sculpting 
familiar to us note with a magnet.



     With this computer the refrigerator (or
refrigeration machine), you can send e-mail,
you can simply surf the Internet. In addition to the
refrigerator installed alarm telemetry system that outputs
image directly onto the screen. This system can be used and
to osavlyat video messages to their home or
send them by E-mail, pre-writing, facing
camera.


     Do not interfere in the economy and plan the calendar, 
that is note- book, which will remind you of what needs to be 
done today. Connected to the refrigerator and television, 
radio, clock and thermometer showing the temperature in the 
house and inside the refrigerator. Finger can change the size

images and display multiple functions.


      ... [Ca. Editorial ... ] Speaking of refrigerators.

      At the beginning of this year already, Intel officially

      announced that it is ready to launch a mass market

      regular flow of its x86 microprocessors are already

      eighth generation. Pentium 4 - a new baby

      filled with silicone, which works with a clock frequency

      his heart to 1,5 GHz. The entire chip is

      that silicon-on today as a material

      microprocessor technology to build a

      almost exhausted. This is Intel's fiery

      motor works in a literal sense to the limit - not yet
      a lot, and he is ready to burst at the seams.


          Soon, the most-most American of
      core processor from a wild load will place the file into 
a vacuum 

      a special cooling chamber with a compressor,

      lowering the temperature to tens of degrees, from which

      they are paired with a washing machine is guaranteed

      knock out your power grid to the ancestors of Gates.


                             *


    Researchers at the University of Hannover have developed a 
new transistor-based germanium. The speed of charge transfer, he

more than twice the commonly used today
silicon transistors. German experts are hoping that their
offspring, which exists so far as a prototype, will 
skschestvenno improve the performance of microprocessors, and 
thus lay the basis for a new generation of computer chips.



                             *


    Created at the end of the last century artificial language 
Esperanto and not widely used as a universal

means of communication. Now the Japanese experts
engaged in developing a kind of 'Esperanto' for Internet.


    Project to create a Universal Network Language (UNL), ie
universal language network, is carried out at the Institute
Advanced Studies at Tokyo University, the United Nations.


    The developers intend to provide any user
Internet regardless of the country in which UN member states, he
lives and the language they speak, the ability to read texts
written in any of the languages ​​of the UN member countries. 
In practice, this will look like. Source code, getting on the 
Internet, automatically encoded into the standard UNL, and then 
using corresponding decoder is translated into one or another

national language. All of this technology on a plan of its
Developers should start functioning within five years.


                             *


    Some time ago, have already appeared in the media reports
Russian company Elbrus is developing a new, not having
analog processor. But because of the main problems of 
post-Soviet time - lack of funding, the project was shelved. 
And, he probably never would have been implemented (to the 
delight of Intel), if not a British bank Robert Flemings, 
grafted fund the development! Currently, work on the creation

processor restarted, and the assurances razrabatchikov, by the
the end of 2000, they will be ready to work pattern.


    It is expected that the Elbrus-E2k ", will run faster than 
any processor that Intel will be able to release during the

next three years. Chip "Elbrus-E2k uses the so-called
"Parallel circuit of the signal, which allows him
perform multiple operations.


                             *


    But western firms also do not stand still and do not
only blunt the increase of capacities (such as Intel), but the 
real innovation.



    Here, for example koporatsiya IBM announced a serious
improvement of manufacturing technology for chips with copper
connecting circuits. Engineers have found a way to
abandon silicon dioxide, which is already three decades
used in integrated circuits for the electrical
isolation of conductive circuits. Instead it used
dielectric material SiLK, buyout for several years
manufactured by Dow Chemical. Since different SiLK
very low capacitance of its application promises
30protsentnoe increase the speed of the chips.


                             *


    As reported by the magazine "Science", a group of 
physicists headed by Professor Jeff Kimble of Caltech

Institute (USA), have created an analogue of an optical 
microscope, able to distinguish individual atoms. This device is

a pair of tiny mirrors with extremely high
reflectivity, separated by a gap in one hundredth of
millimeter. In mezhzerkalnom space is very excited
weak light waves that are repeatedly reflected and
gradually fade. Atom enclosed in a optical
trap interacts with light quanta, and thus reported
its presence.


                             *


    Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo will become the first
company that will offer in the network
video information. According to the press-service group, clients
companies that are connected to the unique Japanese cellular 
system communication - PHS, will take on their mobile phones

news and entertainment programs. Customers will be able
choose from 130 programs, which will be broadcast on 47
channels.


                             *


    And at the conclusion of the review ...


    In the Wintel consortium seems to be a split. Intel company
soon going to announce plans to create a new
type devices with which it will be possible to connect to
Internet without a PC. These devices will be
smaller, cheaper and more flexible to use than a PC. With their
means you can receive e-mail and shopping,
and install them can be in any room or car.
All anything, but Intel representatives said they were not 
going to use Microsoft software in the

their new devices. Why would it, eh?