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What type of technology has had the most impact?

LuckyShoe thinks: The digital age is upon us and we are now able to communicate in ways we never thought possible. We have instant access to anything and everything imaginable. It almost seems that we now have more information than we know what to do with. We are now a truly global society despite language and cultural differences. The internet, digital technology, computers.....all have created a revolution in the way we perform everyday activities.

Too much to read

LuckyShoe thinks: Postal mail seems to be a dying medium. I get nothing but junk direct mail these days and would rather recieve all my statements via email. At my bank, they provide printable PDF statements in case you need a copy for verification purposes. I see each of us, in the future, having personalised homepages where all of our services may be accessed in one place.

Conference Phones

LuckyShoe thinks: Unless you are a secretary who really uses all these features, I can't imagine a more frequently used piece of equipment that so many people have a minimal understanding of, possibly with the exception of an automobile.

Is cash necessary anymore?

LuckyShoe thinks: I think the worries about identity fraud are overblown. I see it as more of a marketing gimmick for credit card companies than an actual issue. Yes, i'm sure identity happens quite a bit, but in most cases, it is caught fairly quickly and credit card users are at minimal risk. If you are careful not to share your vital information, you shouldn't have a problem. I see credit and debit cards as an intermediate before a more secure method of payment becomes available. My guess is it will involve your cell phone to verify identity through text message or PIN code.

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Radio's future?

GenC thinks: Ever heard of podcasts? That's what radio will become, on-demand audio. Add personalisation in in the form of a rating system and you've already far surpassed radios limited capabilities.

Radio's future?

mzellers thinks: Radio will likely remain. In addition to all the enhancements laid out in view B, there is also pleasure in serendipity - hearing something that one never heard before, hearing an old favorite, hearing something that i wouldn't even know, nor vould a bot predict, that I'd want to hear.

Radio's future?

radioMIKE thinks: Yes, radio is marvellous and the future is multi-platform, but please let's not take anything for granted. Millions of South Koreans listen to their mobile TVs while driving to work and I am starting to hear about the same thing in London. Radio is only as good as its content - if there is nothing relevant or interesting on, the man on the Clapham omnibus will listen to his iPod instead.

Radio's future?

JBonnin thinks: I am not a radio user myself...

But I cannot conceive a radioless world though. The cheapest portabe gadget will not disappear, no matters how much it evolves.

One of the scenes I will always keep in mind is that of supporters in a stadium during football matches holding a small radio and listening to the game!

Radio's future?

loujosephs thinks: HD Radio is like AM stereo it's DOA, no one wants it and more importantly no one can figure out how to program the stations on the sub channels. It is not the savior of radio as we know it.

Streaming is tied up in knots over copyright issues, the recording industry has made it next to impossible to stream popular music without paying the artists (again) which to me really doesn't make any sense as most radio stations have to pay to play the music on air and then get hit again with a fee to stream it online. Too many hands in my pocket thank you very much.

As for DAB, this too may be still born as you still can't find an affordable device to get the content.

At the end of the day I think we missed the boat what the device is that will catch the content.

Podcasts are nice but it may just be a fad.

Time shifiting could be the way but it depends on how fast the next generation of telephone products will get rolled out. Could you stream with good quality to a phone headset, the answer is yet if the telephone network supports the bandwdith and in the US most of the major carriers can do it. The Treo and the Windows version of the Treo and even the slimline broadband phone from Motorola could be the way we find out about what's going on in the world. I think we are going to see content platforms we haven't even thought about yet.

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Radio's future?

RadioHirschlerNet thinks: I think, radio as we knew it has a brilliant future. I worked for radio as a reporter for over a decade before moving into marketing radio. All through my years as a reporter, I was yearning for a technology that would allow for simple, versatile, flexible and fully mobile reporting from anywhere and everywhere. I used ISDN codecs in remote places in Lappland and it was a drag - I still remember the cold I had after trying to make it work for almost a day. But it worked finally and the result was worth it: A lively reportage about an ice sculpturer from the spot where it had happened, when it had happened, delivered over the telephone to the studio and out to the world.

Let's use todays techology to deliver exciting content to our listeners from wherever we are to wherevere they are - and vice versa. We are finally there - we have a wide choice of options.

The future of radio is very bright in my opinion. It's not so much about which technology - it's about the right technology for the right situation to deliver the right content the best way.

Radio - to thrive - should:

* be live whenever possible

* be archived and searchable

* be ubiquitous

* interact

Radio's future?

james007 thinks: Live, streaming, radio is hopelessly screwed. In an age of video-on-demand, Last FM and iPods, why listen to someone else's choice of music when you can get a choice specifically produced for your own tastes?

On-demand radio is similarly screwed: not through want of trying of the broadcasters, but the record companies have forgotten who made their business in the first place, and are now greedily wishing to extract more money from the radio business, blindly unaware that on-demand audio will be the future.

The greed of the record companies, and sheer unimaginitiveness of the old guard within radio, will kill the medium stone dead: at least, for music content. This is possibly a good thing.

Radio's future?

PapaDOC thinks: Can u watch TV or go on gogole while draving a car? No! Well maybe when car will be automatic but since there is no such car yet, radio is the only media which u can "handle" while driving.

Radio will be always present in our life ,it just going to be updated or it will get more "high tech".

I think (i hope) moderen radio waves will carry more information such as "next song, play list of songs" or maybe evan "pictures " a.k.a it will get more interactive for the end-user.

Radio's future?

SacredVermin thinks: Radio will always be around. There will always be sections of the world that can't catch up with modernity as quickly as everyone else, and for them it's still a viable news and entertainment source. It may be outdated, but there's a thousand UI's for it and most importantly, it's cheap. There will always be program makers on the radio. As for the phasing out of analog... Well, I work with people who still have and use 5" floppy drives in their work environment. Don't ever expect something to truly fade from the masses.

Does Simplicity wear a tie?

GenC thinks: I'm afraid to say that dies might soon be a relic of the past. Although they look sharp with a nice suit, the workplace is becoming more casual and a suit is now thought of more as a status symbol versus everyday attire.

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