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Already with a combination of different apps, you can listen to music on your computer from your iPhone, streaming over the internet. This stuff is just going to go further. But new advances with capability aside, there's actually a fair amount of cell phone technology that we haven't even seen yet in the US. In Korea, they already have cell phones with 3-D displays, so real holographic displays aren't that far behind. These phones also have two lenses to take 3-D pictures as well. And they've had TV on those phones for several years already, not to mention lots of other capability, like using your cell phone to buy stuff from vending machines. Unfortunately they don't work on US networks so you can't even crack them and use them here... we'll just have to wait. But by the time we have this technology in the States, the newest phones on the other side of the world will probably be able to translate languages for you or something...

There's some theory somewhere that I'm not too familiar with, but it involves falling into a black hole and there being some possibility of you traveling backwards in time. Although with what we know about black holes, people are unlikely to want to test this theory... I think going backwards in time is theoretically possible, since time is basically just another dimension, and if its possible to travel in the three physical dimensions we're familiar with, it should be equally possible to travel through time. Unfortunately, the dynamics of going back in time and the consequences of what might happen would basically cause it to be outlawed as soon as the technology for it exists. Governments certainly wouldn't want people to have the ability to randomly go around into the past, simply because we're not sure if its possible to alter the past. Two views exist on that: 1. If you're going to go back in time and change something, then in the past you've already done it, so when you return to the future, nothing will have changed. 2. If you go back in time, you are physically doing something and changing stuff, so the future will be different. I prefer not to think about this theoretically, but more thinking about particles. Everyone is made up of atoms, etc. whatever. So when you go back in time, the atoms that make up your body appear in a different time. But those atoms already existed at that time ie. in the past. Some law of physics says the same particle can't occupy two different positions at once, so you didn't really visit the past, you basically created an alternate universe that's exactly the same except for the molecules are comprise you. This would explain why "time travel" would cost enormous amounts of energy, since you're basically causing a ton of quantum calculations to happnen in order to create this new universe you travel "back" to. Now as to whether or not you'd actually be able to return to the "present".. that's something I actually can't decide...

Could you explain that a little bit? 'cause cloning would create a completely new person, unless you're talking about transferring awareness between different bodies, there's no way to just magically live in the future. ps. And what do you mean when you refer to "collecting data and storing it"? Lol sorry, just a little bit confused here...

It really just comes down to this:
Would you use the wi-fi features of the touch a lot?
Do you want to have to look at your device to control it? You can easily control Classic without looking, not so much with touch.
Are you interested in higher quality games, or do you already have a good handheld? Touch wins.
Do you really need to carry around 30,000 songs? Classic can.
Do you want a bigger screen for video? Touch has.
Are you mainly looking for the best music device playback in a device? Classic wins.

I personally have an 80GB iPod Classic. I have tons of memory, and I don't really need the other features that the Touch offers since I have a PSP and DS lite. I'd say, if you don't have a PSP or DS, then go for the Touch. If not, then you won't really need those features since the other devices make up for them.

I was just about to say that I was surprised nobody had mentioned Wi-Fi on the touch yet. For me, that's been the most useful feature of the Touch, whether I just want to check my e-mail but don't have my laptop or am not near a kiosk or if I want to see how long it will take for the shuttle to arrive. But then again my music library isn't that big so the Classic isn't really that attractive. I can see space becoming a bit of a problem later on, but the Touch does come in a 32 GB flavor...

Although public perception of hackers might be changing, there really still exists a rather large portion of the population that knows very little about hacker (and by association) geek culture. In lots of movies, hackers are still bad people who do bad things. Ex. Sydney White (2007), Die Hard 4 (2007) and others. Interesting point about the term "cracker" though. Up until this point I was under the impression that 'cracker' referred exclusively to the kind folks that make free software..