One form of technology that looks like it is becoming popular again is 3D television. With broadcasters such SKY starting to show sport in 3D it would appear that it could soon be in people’s homes. There are also more and more films being made in 3D such as Avatar and Disney’s Up.
However this isn’t the only change that looks likely to happen to Digital Cultures in the coming years.
According to chip giant Intel by 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content.
Intel has said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative.
"TV is out of the box and off the wall," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer said.
"TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want."
Mr Rattner said: "We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet.
"People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven't in the past."
Speaking at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, he said the success of TV was due to the growing number of ways to consume content.
Today that includes everything from the traditional box in the corner of the living room to Smartphone’s, laptops, netbooks, desktops and mobile internet devices.
Intel have launched the Atom CE4100 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that can be used to bring internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.
It certainly looks as though the old TV world is fading fast and the future is here.
It is not only televisions where technology is developing it is also mobile phones. With the emergence and increasing popularity of Smartphone’s such as the iPhone and BlackBerry it is interesting to see what the future holds.
It certainly looks like over the next few years as smartphones will start behaving more and more like laptops. In June, DoCoMo started offering the Toshiba T-01A in Japan, a super-fast phone that uses an advanced Qualcomm chip. With these fast processors, smartphones will finally run full-blown apps such as Adobe Photoshop – and not just with the limited features offered in the current Photoshop app. There are already signs of other forthcoming power apps on the horizon as well, including tools that can handle photographic effects and process large, high-res images and videos.
There is now technology being developed that enables tourists who don’t know the language abroad to use portable translator and dictionary. This means tourists can overcome language barriers with instant and live translation tools online.
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The future of Digital Cultures looks very exciting. I am sure that there will be brand new forms of technology that we have never seen before and old forms of technology such as 3D televison being developed to make it better than ever.
