What future developments in sound technology will not rely on computing technology?
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Sound is absorbed by the human ear, at most frequencies above 50Hz, where as lower frequencies can be felt.\n\nSound improvements involving the listener will take in consideration of what, where and how people listen to music or speech or an alarm.\nStudies of behavior problem people who need help.
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equal temperment was definitely a great stride . . . but looked at from a physics standpoint, everything we hear as "normal" is from a physics standpoint, wrong.\n\nI expect as computers become more and more involved in the making of new music, the avant-garde musical movement of the last century will expand to cover different tonalities, including systems not used in any indiginous music.  However, this will still sound "wrong" to most people used to the Western tuning system, so it probably won't catch on :-)\n\nMuch about modern popular music can be commended.  Jazz pushed our understanding about cognition and music forward substantially - improvisation can now be done in performance, and people approve of it!  Songs like the Beatles' "Blackbird," which use a complicated harmonic structure in combination with modern lyrics, will stick around for a long time.  I predict anything with a I-IV-V-I chordal structure (and nothing else) will only be around as long as it has cultural value, though.\n\nIf anything, we're in a phase where music is valued for emotional expression instead of for mathematical precision.  Absolute music may make a comeback eventually, but probably not any time soon.
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Sound does not travel in a vacuum.
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I think Fruity Loops is pretty much the industry standard now.  I produce the old fashioned way- using a digital multitracker unit and lots of boxes, real instruments, and processors.  That's the most powerful means of production, but it requires old-fashioned musical knowhow.
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Sure they are and they will make more advances. There's the MRI, CAT Scan, PET, EEG, etc... without computers hospitals and any health care facilities will be disabled. So much depends on computers that life itselt cannot work without it.
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Electronics, specifically electronics design, has the potential to be the next big thing after software.\n\nReasons are the same as those for explosive growth of software.
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think light projection. Bulky monitors and even plasma will be old fashioned, we'll simply beam our output onto a surface and work away. Maybe even the keyboard will be projected on the table in front of us.
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new technology you know like video cell phones, ps3, new cars, etc.
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a hybrid between biological/electronic technology enabling our brains to communicate directly with implanted computers, eventually in our own language. \n\nI also think anti-ageing genetic modification is on the horizon, but i fear this development. The slower people age, the longer they are going to live & our resources, both natural & financial are going to be stretched to breaking point.
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Not quite yet. It's on the list though to be developed in the future. Stay tuned!
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I bet it will be nanomachines.  Microscopic machines that work at the molecular level will be crucial in the biomedical fields and in new tech innovations that we use everyday, like today cell phones.  Did you ever see that add for microsoft where it was in the near future and this girl was jogging and she got a video conference call from her dad over her sunglasses? He brought up schematics of art works he was thinking of buying and talking to her while she was jogging... well thats all going to be possible with molecular computers.  Unfortunately though, so will other really bad things, we'll just have to see how it goes.
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you better freakin' believe there are.\n\nstep one:\nREASON.\nit is an entire studio synth rack.\nit is a deity among software.\nwww.propellerheads.se\n\nafter reason, check out rebirth (www.rebirthmuseum.com), ableton live (www.ableton.com), project5 (www.cakewalk.com).  when you get excruciatingly advanced, check out sonar 5 (www.cakewalk.com), pro tools (www.digidesign.com), cubase (www.steinberg.net) and so forth.\n\nfor immediate free gratification, get rebirth from the rebirth museum, get hammerhead (6 channel drum sequencer) (www.threechords.com/hammerhead) and get audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) for audio editing needs.\n\nyou should also get a good entry-level pro card.  check the m-audio audiophile 2496.  under 100 bucks gets you a lot of sound card.\n\nmy setup, for the interested, includes:\nreason 3.0.4\nlive 5.2\nproject5 v2\nrebirth 2.01\nhammerhead (whatever version)\nsony acid 5\nand a hell of a lot more.\n\nHAVE FUN!  thats the freakin' important part.  if you fall in love with reason like you should, come hang out at www.reasonstation.net cause its the coolest :)\n\nps- check the link in my sources for a taste of my musical stylings, if you like squarepusher, the flashbulb, nintendo video game music, etc.
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I quite disagree with Darrius. The law of accelerating returns and Moore's law make it inevitable that by no later than 2040 we will have advanced so far technologically that we will be able to do all that they do in the Matrix movies and more. We won't need  a huge spike driven into a hole in the back of our heads though. (Ever hear of wireless networks?)\n\nWithin a decade or two we will be able to supplement our brains with implants allowing us to parallel process (multi-task), enjoy instant and total memory recall, and communicate via the then ubiquitous, wireless Internet with other people or computers including being able to download information. \n\nThis is just scratching the surface. Check out my source links and hang on, we're all about to go on one heck of a ride.
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FOR HIGHER SOUND-QUALITY,WE NEED A HIGH SPEED CONNECTION.A DIAL-UP CONNECTION WON'T DO IT FOR YOU.
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depends on what you want to do with the sound, but generally they use geometry to create sound friendly environments. (feedback reduction,  good resonance reverb, noise reduction, and others)
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hmmmm good qusetion by the way....\n\nWe are see now that every bit of tecnology is growing closer to gether, PDAs, laptops, phones, Home PCs, Home TV all have a lot in common like OS's, web, wireless etc. its looks like to me that the internet will spread as a funtion over new tecnolgy, allowing us to take our digtel lifes everywere. the internet will be the seemless movment of infomation of this new world, no longer confined to the dark rooms and offices, everything will be at our fingertips. as long as well keep the net open and free!
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Consideration of future developments in storage, memory, and Internet technology to direct today's applications towards tomorrows innovations.