A rádio daqui a 50 anos - nanotecnologias e chips bio-inteligentes

«Thanks to nanotechnology, you will be your own radio receiver. Researchers are already experimenting towards this end. Last year, wired.com reported: 'A scientist has unveiled a working radio built from carbon nanotubes that are only a few atoms across, or almost 1,000 times smaller than today's radio technology. The nanotech device is a demodulator, a simple circuit that decodes radio waves and turns them into audio signals. By hooking the decoder up to two metal wires, University of California at Irvine professor Peter Burke transmitted music via AM radio waves from an iPod to speakers across the room.' According to a recent article at dailymail.co.uk, "Children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years, the head of Britain's top private schools organization predicted..." Someday, you will have the option to purchase a "bio-telligent" implant which will quietly exist in your body until you decide to trigger it. When you do, this "nano-radio" will connect with your auditory system and be ready to receive content impulses which will be translated into sound that will play inside your head in the same way headphones create sound for us now. (...) We won't have digital files, hard drives, CDs, memory sticks, or any of the storage media we use today. Instead, all music, speech, and video that has ever been cataloged will be universally available at-once and from anywhere (...) Your nano-radio will learn what you like, an idea pioneered by the Music Genome Project and Pandora. Someday your children, or their children will acquire the ultimate control over their audio entertainment. Marshal McLuhan was a Canadian scholar and philosopher who famously said, "The medium is the message." Our technology will one day make it possible to amend that statement by adding "The medium is the message…and you are now the medium."» (fonte: DEITZ, Corey, «What Radio Might be Like 50 Years From Now», About.com, 2/06/08)