I work with industry leader of Supply chain software. We have software to integrate with the most sophisticated tools helping people in warehouse and supplying good to the end user. But that’s not what I am excited about. Industry is focusing on making work easy for warehouse guys so reduces number of warehouse guys required by ‘managing’ their operations and remembering which item is where.
But there is huge potential to grow when ‘automation’ is included in warehouse. Right now, there are ways people automate the delivery of container into right truck with intelligent conveyer belt. The revolution will come when the picking of an item and putting it into the container will be automated. It’s possible at this time by using robotic hands. Even more can be done with integrating this whole system with vending machine or automated teller machine which can revolutionize the way people shop. This is not thing which will take 10 years to come. Everything exists and only thing that needs to be done is right kind of integration and make a general purpose vending machines.
Go to a general purpose vending machines, insert your credit card, select the items that you want, accept the item, get the bill, pay it, go home. Easy! huh?
I am not aware if anyone is trying for this. But I can foresee it coming as that is the next thing which I can see clearly.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Printers in the future
This topic may look dry for some future talk. It may look like ‘dry’ as it as not evolved a lot. Computer revolutionalized the centuries old printing technology but the output has remained as a printed paper. And there are less reason to believe that output may change much in near future.
Direction of revolution till yesterday:
Printer’s have become faster, smaller, easy and cost efficient.
Direction of revolution today:
Inkless printer:
Next era is of compact and multipurpose devices. Inkless printers exist today more in POC and less in practice. These printers don’t have ink in it but it uses special paper - papers which have special dye on them and they can be reused. These technology will make printers smaller with less moving parts which effectively increases the printing speed.
3-D Printing:
Don’t be surprised by this tile as they are not my imagination. They also exist in real but in POC stage. All above are wrongly put under ‘revolution’ title as they are merely ‘evolution’. This one is real revolution in printing. This will enable you tomorrow to print any model in matter of minutes then which are in todays world done in days.
After tomorrow,
Printer which are going to come after tomorrow, may be in next 75 years (earlier if nanotechnology makes breakthroughs). The 3-D printers today use powder spraying and drying them layer by layer. But future printer will make object by the material you feed. Main implication of these will drastically improve the speed and cost of manufacturing. But what I am interested in seeing is self upgrading printers. If any manufacturing defect is left in the printer, all you need to do is get upgrade instructions and give it to printer. Printer will remold itself to remove the ‘bug’.
Direction of revolution till yesterday:
Printer’s have become faster, smaller, easy and cost efficient.
Direction of revolution today:
Inkless printer:
Next era is of compact and multipurpose devices. Inkless printers exist today more in POC and less in practice. These printers don’t have ink in it but it uses special paper - papers which have special dye on them and they can be reused. These technology will make printers smaller with less moving parts which effectively increases the printing speed.
3-D Printing:
Don’t be surprised by this tile as they are not my imagination. They also exist in real but in POC stage. All above are wrongly put under ‘revolution’ title as they are merely ‘evolution’. This one is real revolution in printing. This will enable you tomorrow to print any model in matter of minutes then which are in todays world done in days.
After tomorrow,
Printer which are going to come after tomorrow, may be in next 75 years (earlier if nanotechnology makes breakthroughs). The 3-D printers today use powder spraying and drying them layer by layer. But future printer will make object by the material you feed. Main implication of these will drastically improve the speed and cost of manufacturing. But what I am interested in seeing is self upgrading printers. If any manufacturing defect is left in the printer, all you need to do is get upgrade instructions and give it to printer. Printer will remold itself to remove the ‘bug’.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
From M N Venkatachalaiah’s mouth
Yesterday, former chief justice of India M N Venkatachalaiah spoke about National Values and it’s preservation in an even organized at Bangalore. This is what he has to say about humans of 2050 and beyond,
“If you live till 2050, you’d probably live forever. I almost think it’s feasible like writer Raymond Kuber says. I believe we will enter a time that would leave no mark of resemblance with the present era. It will happen soon.”
“25 years from now, we would not know what the present was like. We are probably entering the most confusing time of our life. Change as we can see in technology is tumultuous. How do we protect our value of kindness, honesty and patriotism in these time of rapid change?”
Does this mean future is coming with ruthlessness, dishonesty and flexible morality? I think it coming if we don’t change our approach. What he had to say at the first quotation is that science will enable us to do many things as it has done in future. But if rich people become greedy and just keep consuming the resources, we will soon be trapped into the world with less resource for common man.
“If you live till 2050, you’d probably live forever. I almost think it’s feasible like writer Raymond Kuber says. I believe we will enter a time that would leave no mark of resemblance with the present era. It will happen soon.”
“25 years from now, we would not know what the present was like. We are probably entering the most confusing time of our life. Change as we can see in technology is tumultuous. How do we protect our value of kindness, honesty and patriotism in these time of rapid change?”
Does this mean future is coming with ruthlessness, dishonesty and flexible morality? I think it coming if we don’t change our approach. What he had to say at the first quotation is that science will enable us to do many things as it has done in future. But if rich people become greedy and just keep consuming the resources, we will soon be trapped into the world with less resource for common man.
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