Hi, Vicky,
I've heard of people taking pictures with their iPhones and they come
out pretty good.
Rosie
On 8/29/2016 9:22 PM, Vickie wrote:
I beg to differ Linda. I have taken pictures. There is an app which I will research again, as I don’t see it in the list of apps I have on my phone. But, it tells you what the view finder is seeing. It’s really cool. If you point the back of the phone at a chair, it will say one chair. I just took a picture of my own face, and waited till it said one large face. Anyway, blind people can take pictures. True, the pictures I took at the Grand Canyon were mostly with Duane’s help, but I did, on the way home, hold the phone in front of the windshield and pointed it at mountains going by, and took pretty good pictures. So, blind people can take pictures. You can do most anything with the IPhone if you know how.
Vickie
*From:* Linda Gehres <mailto:ljgehres@xxxxxxx>
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Kathleen, it would be nearly impossible for you as a totally blind I-Phone user to take pictures without sighted help. It's one thing to open the camera and quite another to focus it on whatever or whomever you want to take a picture of.
As for the 3D printer, I have heard a commercial for a non-traditional high schoolwhich Google funds. This is a school which teaches its students about technology and prepares them for getting jobs in the industry. 3D printers are expensive to run, and no, they're not for home use. It would be very expensive for a person to make his or her own shoes at this time because this is a relatively new invention. 3D printers are made for small businesses and large businesses who are inventing new products so that an inventor can essentially draw the product design into the printer and then get an idea if the drawing he/she has entered into the 3D printer is going to work. You'll have to wait quite a long time before this is applicable for someone at home to use, and even then, you probably wouldn't be able to afford the printer, let alone use it to make your own pair of shoes. Don't get caried away by what you think is awesome. Yes, it's neat that these are being made, but your idea f
or the printer's application is similar to your going to the moon, even though it's been done.
Linda G.
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Wow that was a neat article. I really liked it. Man I wish I could touch a 3-D printer. I wish there was a way to blind people could use them. Then we could print our own shoes and stuff. That would be a royal blast. I think I would like it. Anyway I want to learn how to take pictures with the iPhone. I don't know how to do it. Honestly I'd like to learn how. Because there are groups that I'm on more people send pictures back-and-forth. And I'd like to put a picture on Facebook. But I don't know if I can. I mean I asked a friend of mine how to do it and he said figure it out for yourself. Why don't have the patience to figure it out. Maybe when I go to the Apple Store they'll show me I don't know. But as far as electric cars wow that sounds kind of scary. Because we won't be able to hear them. Honestly that's really crazy. That's the kind of car I got hit by one of those hybrid cars. The run on both gas and electric. That's a scary thought. But honestly it really is. That's crazy.
But anyway I think the yard. Not going to do that much tonight. Anyway tomorrow I go see the orthopedist. Well I got my three months of therapy through Medicare and the clinic won't let me have anymore because my visits to run out. So now I'm probably going to have an argument with the orthopedist about that. And I'm not thrilled about it either. Because I really want to stay in therapy. So now I'm either going to have to go to a hospital is it outpatient or just not do it. And that's really frustrating. I hate when Medicare throws you out when you're not even finished. That's the way the coast. Plus I talk to my mother on Sunday and she's bugging me about getting a will done and if I want to get cremated to figure out how to pay for it. She's been bugging me about this for months. And she has the idea in her head that is a blind person I can't get life insurance. OK maybe that was true back in 1955 because she told me that she couldn't get it for me but I thought they found
out I was blind. Now that's changed. But she doesn't believe it. I guess you can't argue with a woman it's almost going to be 90. So I'm not not even going to try. I guess I'm going to have to talk to Social Security and find out if I can get life insurance. Then she says she doesn't know if I can inherit money from her because I would lose my SSI. I tried to tell her she should've put it in a trust and she didn't. Oh well. I guess I'm going to have to talk to her lawyer. Or find one here. And trying to get legal representation when you're on a fixed income is not easy.
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> On Aug 29, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Sandy <shbrooks49@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I know this is off topic for our list, but thought some of you might find it interesting.
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> 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.
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> Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.
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> What happened to Kodak will happen to a lot of industries in the next 10 years - and most people won't see it coming.
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> Did you ever think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again??? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The problem was that the first ones only had 10,000 pixels and it took time to develop more definition in photos. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years thereafter.
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> The above will now start happening with artificial intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture, jobs and many other important parts of daily life.
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> So ... Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution or should I say welcome to the Exponential Age.
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> Software
> Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
> Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world.
> Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.
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> Artificial intelligence
> Computers will become exponentially better in understanding the world.
> This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
> In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs because IBM's Watson, where you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds with a 90% accuracy compared to 70% accuracy when done by humans.
> There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
> So if you study law, stop immediately!!!
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> Medicine
> Watson already helps nurses diagnose cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses.
> Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.
> In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
>
> Transport
> Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public.
> Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted.
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> You won't want to own a car anymore, however, if you do want a car, then electric cars will already start becoming mainstream by 2020.
> Furthermore, cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric.
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> You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.
> You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving.
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> Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car.
> It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that.
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> We can transform former parking space into parks.
> Today 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide.
> We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving, that will drop to one accident in 10 million km.
> That will save a million lives each year.
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> Most car companies might become bankrupt.
> Traditional car companies still try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. (I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.)
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> Insurance
> Insurance companies will have massive trouble – This is because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper.
> Their car insurance business model will disappear.
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> Real Estate
> Real estate patterns will change - Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.
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> Electricity
> This facility will become incredibly cheap and clean.
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> Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only see the impact now.
> Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil.
> The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.
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> Water
> With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water.
> Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter.
> We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water.
> Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.
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> Health
> The Tricorder X price will be announced this year.
> There will be companies who will build this type of medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone taking your retina scan and will also be able to take your blood sample when you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap. So, in a few years, everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.
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> 3D printing
> The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years.
> In the same time, it became 100 times faster.
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> All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes.
> Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports.
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> The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.
> At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home. In China, they have already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building.
> By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.
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> Work
> 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years.
> There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a short time.
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> Agriculture and food
> There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all day on their fields.
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> Aeroponics will need much less water.
> The first petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018.
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> Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine when we don't need that space anymore.
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> There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. This will contain more protein than meat.
> It will be labelled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).
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> Human feelings
> There is already an app called "moodies" which can tell which mood you are in.
> Until 2020, there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying.
> Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when they are not.
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> Bitcoin
> This currency will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.
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> Longevity
> Right now, an average life span increases by 3 months per year.
> Four years ago, a life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years.
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> The increase itself is increasing, and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year.
> So we all might live for a long, long time, probably way more than 100 years old.
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> Education
> The cheapest smart phones are already sold for $10 in Africa and Asia.
> By 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone and that means that most will have the same access to world class education.
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> Business opportunities
> If you think of a niche you want to go into, ask yourself, "in the future, do you think we will have that?" If the answer is yes, you should ask yourself how can you make this happen sooner?
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> THE 2 BIG CLUES
> If it doesn't work with your phone, forget about the idea!
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> Any idea that was designed for success using 20th century thinking is doomed for failure in the 21st century.
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> Why don't you bury this mail somewhere on your computer under the header “To be opened on 1 January 2025” and on this date (if you are still around) look back to see how much of the above has come true. You might be in for a huge surprise and you will not be able to say “Nobody warned me that this was going to happen”.
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> If you are not around, then leave guidance to your grandchildren to find the hidden file where they will probably have a wonderful laugh at your expense for not listening to your own advice.
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