Pardon me for butting in, but I don't think so. There are vacuumed cleaners that have fuzzy logic chips in them for recognizing the best traction and suction based on sensing what surface they are vacuuming. My dryer uses a similar concept to dry out the cloth in the best way without me selecting the time span. There is talk of fabrics with chips embedded in them to sense their environment, motion, etc. None of these are IT dependent. This may come as surprise to many people, but the leading edge products are often 10-30 years behind their prototypes or proven theories. In other words, even if we stopped dead on tracks for improving our IT, we could still have tremendous advances in products, so long as we advance in production related sciences (read material science, cheaper production process, etc). To advance in these areas, we do not need to advance much in IT.
Here is another way of looking at it. My handheld has more power than what NASA used to send the first man to the moon. If I was a business exec who did not wish to spend too much money on IT, I could always find more efficient ways of running my shop with minimal IT spending.Pardon me for butting in, but I don't think so. There are vacuumed cleaners that have fuzzy logic chips in them for recognizing the best traction and suction based on sensing what surface they are vacuuming. My dryer uses a similar concept to dry out the cloth in the best way without me selecting the time span. There is talk of fabrics with chips embedded in them to sense their environment, motion, etc. None of these are IT dependent. |
