Do you think P.E.T.s will ever be made in the future?

cpkr · Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 37

I was wondering...I bet most of you want your own custom netnavi huh? Well I was wondering....do you think P.E.T.s will ever be made in the future? Smile

Heliumbunny · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

sadly, I do not believe P.E.T.s will ever exist. Crying or Very sad

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**Sketch** · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:

...Not again...
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Tachyon360 · Le Croissant Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 740

See that nondescript pile of red mush over yonder? Yeah, that was once a horse.

Ehh, to answer the question, I doubt anything resembling what was present in Rockman.EXE will ever come about, but I do expect that PDAs, cell phones, and tablet PCs will continue to converge and evolve.

As I've mentioned before, I believe ubiquitous computing, grid comptuing, seamless computing, small-scale wireless mesh networking, and mobile augmented reality will come to play a pivotal role in day-to-day computing tasks, centered around a personal thin-client-like tablet device that serves four basic purposes: (1) controlling environmental systems of various sorts with dynamically generated GUIs, (2) serving as a personal communications device as a sort of cellular videophone and internet teminal, (3) performing automated and intelligent data management and personal organization, and (4) serving as a repository for one's personal settings.

Data and media would be encrypted and streamed through the Internet on demand, no matter where you are, provided that you have the rights to access said data and media. Some data would be stored in data centers (not unlike what we see with web mail and Web 2.0 apps today), and other data would be streamed directly from your home, office, or school.

The amount of configuration required for the system on the end user's part would be minimal to none. For example, a PVR, a gaming system, a media server, an alarm clock, fridge, oven, washing machine, toaster, coffee maker, and even the minivan parked in the driveway would be able to immediately recognize and communicate with each other right out of the box. Everyone in the household could access and control said devices with their own mobile terminals with no explicit configuration. Each nearby controllable device would simply appear on a table of available devices and provide its own set of menus and options.

I really don't see how Navis would fit in such a picture.

Addendum: I think I should also note that there's a certain industry that'll no doubt take full advantage of this technology early on, spearheading its adoption, and due to the nature of said industry, security and privacy measures all across the board need to be robust. Taking it a step further, I'd hope to see the ability to marry specific data streams and personal gadgets to specific mobile terminals and make their presence invisible to all other mobile terminals.

With that kind of framework in place, other more legitimate industries would quickly follow suite, and perhaps such things would come about as HMDs for paintball that display one's ammo count and team presence or maybe electronics integrated with one's clothing in the form of displays or heating/cooling elements.
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Zepper · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Brazil

Quick answer: not like the series in anyways. However, modern mobile phones already do the task of messages, images, sounds and everything a PET would handle. An "AI being" inside a machine isn't something suitable for my mind... Wink

Crimson Seiko · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

PETs (and similarly, Transers) aren't farfetched. We practically already have such technology. But Net Navis, on the other hand, are.
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marihikari · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

It's possible that PET could exsist in the future, but it's not really likely to happen until 2100 if it is, i think.
But it would be awesome if they did exsist, i know if i ever become a scientist in computers then i'd want to work on them, but i'd be really hard to create the AI netnavi programs.
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Unknown Neo · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

I know someone made this joke already but a visual thing works so much better.
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070224.html

SeijinKage13 · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: May I?

Can I say this? PET's seem real with the tech. today, but the decision to forward out highly advanced AI research can either put us at risk or the gov't in debt for funding such. If you believe that doing that is possible, then stick to it. I'm not taking sides here. Now, I must hurt more, don't mind me Crying or Very sad

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marihikari · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: Re: May I?

ForteGS.exe · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

A few more World Wars could speed up the progress.
I don't like wars, but look what progress we made during WW2!?
Technology was getting better and better......

At this rate, it will probably be a few 100 years. And still, it wouldn't be given to everyone. Just in case a Crime Syndicate (like World3 and Nebula from the Anime/games/manga) wants to wreak havoc.

QuickMan · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

The technology could easily exist... but I bet that it would cost an insane amount of money for the PET's and everything and anything that goes with it.... IE, chips, NC parts, places to plug-in and numerous customization for your navi and things that it can and can't do. The idea sure is nice, and i for one would like to see it exist... but i think that it would just be extremely expensive.

Tachyon360 · Le Croissant Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 740

PETs in their most rudamentary form are possible. To an extent, you can even consider a UMPC a sort of PET. It's really a matter of devising an efficient infrastructure for PETs to be used in, establishing a set of standards and protocols, and then make a push into the consumer market, gradually expanding the infrastructure to support PETs as demand grows.

To such an end, neither war budgets nor direct government spending are going to do anything. It's all a matter of what the industry giants want. Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, and Matsushita all come to mind.
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SeijinKage13 · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: If such

With the PET, you could virtually reduce the amount of real wars and unnecessary deaths occuring today. It would mark a great step in global peace. Plus, it can provide us with a social solution to the many depressed teens today. Then again, I'm only seventeen, what could I possibly know about real world affairs? Embarassed

Tachyon360 · Le Croissant Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 740

Let me ask you this: have cellphones, PDAs, and Gameboys ever done anything for world peace?

PETs would be absolutely nothing more than just another consumer electronic device.
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