Is 2011 the year of the tablet? Will warfare expand to the virtual sphere? Listen in as Jonathan and Chris give you their top predictions for the upcoming tech trends of 2011.
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Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With text style from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone, welcome to text stuff. My name is Chris Polette and I'm an editor here at how stuff works dot com. Sitting in crush from a senior writer, Jonathan Strickland, Mr Marks, by mandate of the District of Columbia pre Crime Division, I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today April two hours and four minutes. I think you'd probably understand where that one came from. Oh, I know exactly where that one. Okay, we've actually seen that one. Hey, what do you know? What do you know? Who would have Guessedabes and Toiland? So we're going to talk about it, not from that, although that would have been awesome. Deleted scene from Babes and Toiland. I don't remember a pre Crime Division um to day. We're going to do this is this is both a blessing and a curse for technology journalists everywhere. We're going to do our predictions episode for the Technology Stories of twenty eleven. I remember when we did that episode with Tom Merriden Veronica Belmont. Yeah, where we talked about talked about what they like about UM tech journalism and Tom's face when you actually y'all couldn't see that, but his the look on his face when we mentioned when Jonathan mentioned predictions and yeah, yeah, it's one of those things that that we're expected to do. The worst thing is that we brought it on ourselves. Yeah. No one told us that we had to do a predictions episode, and then we did. And now we're kind of stuck because it's a tradition already. Well, it's fun, but it kind of stinks because it's so in tech. It's so easy to be wrong. Yes, as we have proven time and time again. So with that being said, Mr Pallette, will you please grace us with your first prediction for the Tech of twenty That was just lovely My favorite, my favorites of the ones that look like they're going to happen and then swerve and then may that may actually happen with this one. UM, you know how uh live Nets and Newton were both sort of working on calculus at the same time, UM, and of course everyone thinks of Newton when they think of calculus, or they think of stabbing their calculus teacher. Anyway, I came up with this one several weeks ago, and now everywhere on all the sites that have tech predictions, they've all predicted it too. But I thought of it on my own before I saw that the iPads getting a camera next year. Actually, and in the last few days, yeah, and in the last few days. Um so we don't We don't have to give me credit for that one, because other people have said it too, if you don't want to. But um, I've seen reports in the last few days, on the day we've recorded this in early ish December, that they're actually manufacturing the next version of the iPad, will have them ready to go as soon as February, so that may happen really quickly if they announced it before the end of twenty ten. Do I get credit for it anyway? Um so, yeah, I think. But I think it will have one camera forward facing, uh so that you can use face time with it. Um And I don't know what else is going to be in there, probably a faster processor. But I've been predicting for for a while now that the iPad will get a camera in it's next generation, and that's next year. So there I said it. The real question is will will there be a dedicated mute button that only mutes the system sounds and nothing else. I would really like that because I liked the the having the screen lock, and now that I don't have it anymore, I really miss it. Yeah, yeah, that was that's that's been a Molly Wood have seen it. She's been been screaming about thee. She does not like that at all the fact that that's that feature is gone. All right, So here's my and I'll still an Apple. Uh. Here's here's my big one. The iPhone will move to Verizon, but not till really. Yes, but the announcement that the iPhone will come to Verizon will happen sometime in but it won't actually make the move till That's funny. I was going to predict that it was going to head Verizon, uh, to coincide with its release of the four G network. I think that it will wait a little longer. First of all, I think it will wait because Apple does not adopt new technology in their devices right off the bat. If you remember it took they waited a generation before they added three G to the iPhone, despite the fact that there were three G networks. And part of that I think was because Jobs has this this belief that he wants his products to be absolutely the best they can be, and he doesn't want to just jump onto a new technology as soon as it's available. He'd rather wait and make sure that it's a proven one before adopting it. But another reason is because we've heard heard through various sources over the years that A T and T and Apple signed an exclusivity agreement that would last around five years. And that was back in two thousand seven and two thousand seven plus five dozen in equal eleven. Yes, but but it hasn't been said for sure, but it's been people that it's been hinted at by various sources. So I'm taking that at face value and suggesting that the again, it will come to Verizon, but we'll hear about it next year. Okay. Um. My next one actually relates to Google, and in the days actually right as we were recording this, Google's Chromos launched officially. Yes, uh, and I think and I think that it will underwhelm and it's acceptance in in in that a Google product will underwhelm is also a pretty safe that's true, I don't. I think. I think it's the form factor. I think if the Chromos was on a tablet, then it might. But that's a that's a later prediction. I'm coming back to that. But I think the netbook market right now is kind of sort of stagnant. I think Google is really taking the same sort of general approach that Apple is taking in a way, right because Apple has two main operating systems, mac os and iOS. The iOS is for their mobile devices, which is everything from their smartphones and iPod h line to the tap iPad the tablets, so but it doesn't include notebooks. Their notebooks are considered computers, not mobile. So uh. Even though people might say, well, a netbook is really a mobile device, Apple would disagree. First of all, they don't do netbooks. But even the Mac Air, which is probably you know, the lightest of their devices, although it's not not priced like a netbook, is um it runs the mac os, does run iOS well. Mark Zuckerberg agrees, of course, he doesn't think that the iPad is um uh well no Apple Apples. Apple essentially says the iPads mobile because it's running the iOS. Yes, but disagrees. I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you're saying. No, no, I'm saying. I'm saying Google. Google seems to be agreeing with that strategy because they're using Android for the smartphones and for the tablets. They're using Chromos for netbooks and and higher up on the computer chain. So Google seems to be following suit with Apple. They're they're saying, there is this delineation between the tablet world and everything below it, and netbooks and everything above it. So, um, but I do think that the Chromos I said that it's I don't think it's going to take off, but I do think what it's going to do is it's going to push cloud computing to that next level where we're going to see even more web based services and applications than we already do, and it's going to become even more of a commonplace, uh practice to use these web based applications, both in the home and in business. Yeah. I actually was going to make that a one of my my predictions. But I think the cloud, the cloud becoming the norm is already happening. Microsoft is trying to own that. That's your current ad campaign that's out right now in December. But pushing, pushing something and having people adopted or two different things. Well, because we've seen some technologies get pushed that people just said, uh, not doing it. Nope, sorry, no, you I know you want me to try this, but I'm not gonna Did you just hear waves crashing? Yeah? I'm sorry? Stick with Google? Yes? Do you have another one? Do you want me to go again? Well? You know I just did the what cloud? I can do one here, I can cloud base, but I'll do another one. Hang on, let's see blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, Yeah, we're going to see a dramatic increase in cyber war inn This is a this is a kind of a gimme, but we're going to see more D D O S attack. We're gonna be seeing a lot more attacks through information technology than ever before, and those attacks are not necessarily going to come from quote unquote official sources, like state sponsored sources. We're gonna see a lot of vigilante cyber warfare where we're gonna see some person who happens to have enough savvy to either design and tool or just use a tool, because there's some out there that you can just pick up and use and and and attack a target on behalf of some cause or another. So so you're thinking specifically of the example, the recent example of wiki leaks in which people who are outraged on one side or the other of the argument attacked people other sites that are involved with that is the Yeah, it's like it's like seeing these private armies being set against targets. They're not fighting. The private armies aren't fighting each other, not seeing like one botan net square off. Here's another crazy thing. So a lot of these d d o S attacks they involve boton nets, you know, zombie computers. Right, Well, there's nothing stopping the fact. In fact, there's it's quite possible that you could have a single victim computer that is part of two botton nets and attacking both sides of the same issue. So you could have one computer that's sending out attacks on both sets of targets. So it's like it's like having an army full of mercenaries and they're and they're just told, okay, just shoot everywhere. Yeah. So that's my next one. That's that's not not a happy prediction. I hope it's. I hope it's not one that necessarily comes to light, but I it's hard for me to imagine it otherwise. UM, let's see UM. To go with our earlier discussion, I'm going to say that is the year of the tablet. Some people might say that it was, but I think I don't think it's the iPad. I mean, the iPad sort of got the ball ruling, but I think when the the Android os that really support tablet computing is launched, I think that's when it's really gonna hit because then people who don't like the iPad for whatever reason, uh, We'll pick up an Android tablet and find out that they like it for different things. And I think it's possible that the iPad may come with new functionality in the next iteration to to let you do more things with it. Yeah, I think I think it's a fair assessment. Was not the year of the tablet. It was the year the iPad. Yeah, you know, the iPad was. It was the iPad and then a bunch of also rans. I mean, even the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which I think was probably at least the best publicized UM opponent to the iPad. UM I don't think that you could really call it a true contender yet, I think we're going to see that mature in So I agree with that that prediction, and I think it's simply that well. I mean Google has even said, you know, the the current version of Android is not meant to be run on a tablet. It's meant to you run on a smartphone. So I think once that happens and it's got a dedicated tablet os, I think it's really gonna to change things. And I think lots more people will come out with tablets. Um And and as a my next prediction is related to that that laptop sales are going to start declining as a result of of that. And I mean it's already happened, but I think it's gonna when when that happens, when the which one is a gingerbread, Yeah, yeah, that's supposed to be the Honeycomb. Honeycomb that are really tablet friendly. Um, I think that's that's you're going to see an actual hit in laptop sales. Yeah. I had a I had a similar prediction. Mine was that the laptop sales would dip slightly, but they wouldn't really be cannibalized totally because I think I think people are just going to realize the same thing that that you realized, which is that the tablets don't really replace stuff that you have. It is supplemental. So I think there's still going to be a need for things like laptops and computers that have more capacity and more capability than your and and just an easier form factor for certain tasks than tablets are able to give you. No, that doesn't mean that tablets are are bad. It just means that for certain tasks, netbooks are computers are better. Yeah, And I think that could be said for for the desktop. Two. It can really be said for any form factor, right, Like, there are certain tasks that just work better on certain platforms. And that's not a that's not a knock to the other platforms. It's just that, you know, it's the way it's really the way humans work more than the way the technology works. So yeah, I agree with that. Um let's see, Oh, I have one here we go. eBay will sell Skype okay, because really I don't know that they know what to do with it, and I but I think, yeah, I think Skype is going to get a new buyer. Then I don't know that it will go in an eBay auction. That would be funny though, what about what about my Space? Oh that's a good question. Well, you know what this is. This is the make or break year for it. Yeah, so I think I think Fox sell the mind this is a on off the cuff, just thought of it prediction. I think Fox will sell it. I think I think that's a distinct possibility if my Space doesn't get a real influx of users by I'd say the by the end of the second quarter. I could easily see Fox saying, you know what, we're just gonna We're gonna offload this. Yeah, because I mean they they've they've made no secret of the fact that this is a make or break situation for my Space. Yeah. Well that was a good one. Do you have another prediction, an official one? Or you did too it once? Should I do another one? Sure? We kind of actually started doing that a minute ago, and then yeah, we did kind of jump around. Okay, so will be the the true battle the test of the four geo? Okay, that actually goes with one of mine. So we're we're really looking at and it's you can argue whether or not these things belong in four G or not. It's I'm I'm using at the way the general public uses it. But really what we're getting down to is y MAX versus l T E, and which which of the two standards or which of the two technologies is going to really become the next UH foundation for wireless data transmission UM I I happen to think that will be l T E. Yeah, and i happen to be a y max customer, So I'm not happy about this prediction. And I could be wrong. Could this could be one of those things that just like there is no clear winner, right, Yeah, because G S M and C D M A do we still have both of those? That's true. Actually we uh we've already got the nation's first UH for G official for G network, and that's Metro PCs is UM. Of course, T Mobile rolled out a next gen three G what they're calling it. They're calling it four G, but it's not four G technology four G speeds, yes, yes, they they're calling it for G, but it's it's an updated three G and and it actually is faster than four G technology at its current generation is confusing. And that's and and that's why I see there's so much murkiness in there that they can do that. But yeah, I think I think really this will come down to y Max versus LTE, the really big fight, and we'll see maybe maybe there won't be a clear winner, but I think there will be someone well in the lead. By the end of the year. Verizons on the cusp of launching its own for G network and I my my prediction, my next prediction, it's related, is that A T and T will go ahead and start rolling out at SWARD network by the end of next year. It may not be in in great capacity, and I've seen different numbers. I've seen twelve, I think both when we we research it. But um, that was some time ago now, and I think there now that everyone else is starting to really get on the on the ball, I think E T and T will to eighteen. Never mind, Yeah, I'm just ignoring that. Uh should I go again? Okay, UM, let's see, let me look at I'm looking through my list. I've got a bunch of these written down. I'm just trying to find feel free to uh to drop a couple in there. A new version of the we really will be announced at E three or sometime during the year. Yeah, I was thinking about gaming stuff and I couldn't really see anybody being ready to do that. Do you think it's going to be high deaf? Yeah, I think it's just gonna be the we high definition. I don't think it's gonna be significantly different. Otherwise, I think it's just going to be the high definition version of the week. I think that's as close as we are to a new console system. I don't I still don't see PS three or I don't see the PS four getting announced or the next X Plus getting announced. In I said this, I'm saying it again for I just don't see it because they've just launched these peripherals, which the same reason I gave last year with the Move and the connect. It just doesn't make sense to abandon that. Although if both companies pursued it the way play Station Sony did with the PlayStation three in PlayStation two, it could I could then see maybe a new device coming out if they if if the company said they would continue to support the current generation, because I mean Xbox Microsoft did not do that. Once they went Xbox three sixty, that was the end of the Xbox really more or less, whereas Sony was No, we'll keep making games for the PlayStation two. You know, it's a really popular platform. So okay, you want me to do another one, or you want or you I've got a pair together, hit me with your best shot. Okay. I think Spotify is actually going to show up on the United in the United States, Well, I don't think that at all, but all right, cool, that's one that we can There will definitely be a winner at the end of the year. Yes, I'm sorry. So you think Spotify is going to resolve the issues that are currently preventing it from coming over to the US. Yes, And by issues, I mean they're going to lots of legal ramifications, make all these agreements licensing agreements with the various music companies in order to be able to stream the music here in the US. Yes, but it may not necessarily matter. They've they've already got great competition in the United States from UH companies like rdio and some of the others. That's so much stuff already, all the streaming music products like last FM and Pandora and groove Shark and all that kind of stuff. But I have to say, I think there will be another new competitor, and again this is one that is probably clued in more than anything else. But I think the new streaming Apple Store will be online. Okay, so this prediction of yours, so you're gonna stick with it, I'm sticking with it. Well, there's we know that they're building a data center in North Carolina. Yes, um, I don't. I think that's just so that they can do a tar Heels app. That's okay, I you know, And I was thinking about this on the way of the office because I was doing this on the way in, and I thought, well, I think that's a safe bet. Now, I was wondering if I'll ask you this. I'm not predicting this, but I'll ask you, do you think there might be a streaming video component to this too? We think they'll they'll jump in the fray with Netflix and some of the others. It's I mean, the if they've got all that, they've they've pushed Apple TV pretty hard, but Google, but it's still hard to it's still hard to. Um, I don't know, it's still hard to find Apple TV a truly compelling product when there are other competing products on the market that have a little more versatility. It all depends on how dependent you are on iTunes. Right. If you're a heavy iTunes user, then the Apple TV is a great product. If you just casually use iTunes, but you rely heavily on others services, then you may want to look at some other solution to that. Um, all right, well, okay, so you say Spotify is definitely coming, I say Spotify not. You say that Apple will launch its streaming music service. Uh? Do I want to come down on that one one way or the other? Um? What the heck? I'll stick stick my neck out on this one too, and this way we'll we'll definitely have a winner and a loser. I will say that they will not come out with a streaming music service in although, although if September rolls around and they don't, uh, then we know, right, Like, if September comes and goes and there's no announcement about a streaming music service, then I think that's pretty much the nail in the coffin. Yeah, you know what I now that I think about it, I think this is why tech people do predictions. It is because this time of ye're so slow in tech, right, right, once you get once you get past Black Friday. Then it's it's slow until you hit c e S or or if you do have tech news, you're under embargo and you can't talk about until January. So, um, so that's good. What do you think? What are you going to see at c S? What are your predictions? Cheese? I figured you had something, Well, I assume you know it'll be a lot of It'll be a lot to three D technology. Again, it's gonna be huge. It's gonna be even beyond last year. And last year was big. I mean that's when we started seeing the second tier television companies producing three D TVs. Will also see that for displays, We'll see it for gaming devices. It's just gonna be one of those things where I think more companies are going to get on board with that technology to try and push it, which, uh, that would surprise me if I don't see that. Um. Apart from that, let's see, Uh, there's gonna be I think I think we'll price see again more technology that involves uh like why gig technology where we see devices streaming UM data to one another without wires. So we're talking about I made this prediction in twenty ten that we would see this in the market, and we never really did. But this would be things like your DVD player or Blu ray player being able to connect wirelessly to your TV so you don't have to have a cable. You can actually keep everything out of sight and uh, you know with a with a UM radio frequency remote control, you wouldn't even need a line of sight with your remote to change stuff. Kind of awesome. So I think that will be there. Um it's it's the green technology will still be big. Although one of my predictions actually, I think the green technology bubble bursts in Yeah. I think what's gonna happen is we're going to see investments in green technology companies, especially the ones that have the flashier green tech. I think we're gonna see that kind of drop out a little bit. Inn It's not gonna mean that green technology is going away. It's not gonna mean that people are no longer concerned about the environment. I think it means that we refocus our our perspective on green technology and we look at very specific applications like increasing energy efficiency. I think that will become the big thing in green tech in twenty eleven is increase efficiency with existing technology or improved versions of existing technology as opposed to look at this new device that will convert your foot you know, foot traffic into electricity. I don't think that's going to be as big as here's a battery that will last longer, or you know, here are solar panels that will have a greater efficiency in converting solar energy into electricity. That's where I think it's gonna be. Yeah, and this one, Um, I have a related prediction, but I'm not sure if we're going to be able to if it's going to be noticeable enough for us to make a call on it without doing some heavy research. Um, so you know we can count. This is not a prediction if you want, but I think there will be more investment R and d uh into alternatives to using rare earth metals. That makes sense because I've already seen that people are thinking about other kinds of metals that can use and a lot of that's used in green tech. There's a lot of rare stuff in uh wind power. Um, what was it nearly a ton in every turbine something like that like that, it would Yeah, if you guys listen to our Rare Earth Metals podcast, then you remember that the real problem here is that most almost all of the rare earth metals come out of China, and so if China has a project, for example, building lots and lots and lots of wind turbines, which they plan to do, that could mean that they are going to have to keep all those rare earth metals for their own project, which means our supply gets cut off. So the alternatives are you either find a different way of of achieving your goals and using stuff other than rare earth metals, or you start opening up rare earth metal minds in other locations. But as people have found out, that ain't cheap, at least not as cheap as it's done in China. Right, So that's a good one. How about here, here's one that's very specific. Light Peak debuts in Yeah, and and then we start to really see it's kind of similar to the battle but between lt E and y Max. We see the battle between light Peak and USB three point oh and uh. And some would say that Intel has dragged its feet in incorporating USB technology into its chip sets, specifically in order to give light Peak a an advantage. I don't you know. Granted, that's an allegation. I don't have really an opinion on that one way or the other. But um, I will say that I'm looking into the light peak technology. Uh, this is again another data transmission technology where you're you're transferring data from one device to another. Um, it's it. It's amazingly fast. I mean it's it's so fast that it's hard for me to wrap my mind around it because you're thinking about like moving the equivalent of a full Blu ray disk to another device in just a few seconds. And uh, I mean that's amazing to me. But I think we're going to see that really take off. May not be in any consumer to prices, but I think we're gonna finally get out of It'll it'll get out of the lab all right. Then in fact that I would love to see that at CES. Yeah, if I saw if they had at the Intel booth, if they had a section devoted to light peak technology and showed to working light peak system, I'd be like, well, I'll just be here for the rest of the day, all right. You know that that that was where all my flashy or are the flashiest of my predictions. Um, And I'm not sure the last one is that flashy, because the the only one that I have left on my list that I made was the uh that HDTV prices are just gonna stagnate. I think they're getting to the point where they're about as low as you're gonna get. I think they'll be they'll trickle downwards a little bit still. But um, the drops that that we saw over the last couple of years where they went from hundred to eleven hundred to six hundred, I think those big jumps are gone. I think they're gonna be more expensive than your average TV. But yeah, I think some of the Black Friday deals we saw where we saw forty two in h D t V is going for around four dollars, I think that's pretty much the the bottom bottom of the barrel as far as price drops go, and that that was a special circumstance, right because that's that's doing it for a specific sales date. Um, I don't see that. I agree. Well, here's here's one that's not terribly flashy either. I think in we will see a dramatic shift really both from consumer side and from UH enterprise side, a decrease in the reliance upon discs. We're gonna look at more digital delivery for things like applications. And I mean this is a gimme two. Because we've got the chromos and the Chrome Store. We also have the Mac Store that's opening up in tylen where you will be able to get applications for your Mac online. You won't it won't go involved going out and getting a skin, putting that in your computer and installing it. You'll get it all uh over the internet. Um. I think we're gonna see a lot of that, and we're gonna see similar services pop up that support this, So not just places where you can purchase games like through Steam for example, but where you can play them like on on live systems. So um yeah, I think we're getting to the point where all that clutter, all those those boxes that we used to have that housed all of our our disks or even just the discs themselves, that's gonna become a thing of the past. And then especially if you marry that with cloud computing, then you can have an account right with a particular vendor, and that way, let's say that you're you're hard drive crashes or you lose all your data because you have this this account with the vendor. As long as you can verify what happened, happen or whatever, you could get another copy of it without having to go out and buy another one. So you have to have those safety nets in place, I think for people to really adopt this model. M M. Trying to think of something else. Do you have any uh any others? Yeah? I got a couple of others. Here's some. I think we'll see the PlayStation phone, which has been room. I've seen videos of a device that's supposedly the PlayStation phone. It has a swing out keyboard, very much like the htc uh G one and G two phones did um, but in this case, instead of it being a keyboard a quirty keyboard, it's um it's a control pad and and buttons. So we'll priacely see something along those lines debut in twenty eleven, so that that would be interesting. I think we're gonna see color e inc E readers start to take off in Yeah, yeah, no, they've they've already announced Color e ink. It does exist, right, so so you think it will actually become It would shock me if I don't see some of that. It's e S two that would that would also be something I would expect to see. I think it may finally become time inn you might finally start to catch up with Japan and incorporate near fields communication systems into devices like cell phones, smartphones, things like that, so that we can purchase items without the use of a credit or debit card. Interesting, But um, I don't think it's gonna necessarily be widespread. I mean, there are a few places in the United States where where companies have incorporated this, but there are very few and far between. I think we're gonna start to see that change in I don't think it's gonna be sudden. I don't think it's gonna be overnight. And by the end of twenty eleven, it may be just a tiny percentage of all companies incorporating this. But I think we're gonna start to finally see that shift. Okay, then all right, So do you think we're finally going to see Duke for real? Who? That's right? Twenty eleven, we're supposed to Newcomb forever. Okay. I can't decide how I feel about it. I'm gonna I'm gonna take them for their word. I'm gonna say that I'll be squashing alien heads underneath my big burly boot by the middle. Okay, I agree with you. I think they're they're really going to do it. All right, I've got a question for you. This is a follow up from last year's predictions. Do you think I'm still going to have the same computer by this time next year? I'm pretty sure it will be completely unusable from to I T S years. I think they're doing it, never mind, just I think they have a candid camera at your desk and or just watching you. They've already been interfered with our podcast before. There is a history where they went in and put in an effect, so I know that they at least listen. Is he please come on? I'm begging you please. How many keys do I need to lose before this thing becomes impossible to run? All right? Well, you know, I just don't. I think it's going to be a pretty laid back yere And I was trying to think in our podcast on the predictions from last year. I started trying to think of some you know, crazy outrageou stuff. That stuff is there so hard to predict. Yeah, you never mean like Steve Jobs stepping down, or that the driverless Google car. I mean that was so out of nowhere we wouldn't be able to, like, I mean, are you going to predict that Apple is going to come out with a driverless airplane? I mean, it's just that's like we could just spelled off crazy things, but you know, there's there's no basis for that. There's gonna be there are gonna be a lot of stories like that that that we obviously had no bearing on. At the end of I'm sure we'll do a show where we talk about the big stories that we did not predict at all, and they'll probably be major things, and we might even be able to say, hey, you know, if we had really looked really deep into the tech news that was around at the end of we could have predicted this, but we won't because we're done. We're over, this is finished. This is the end of this episode. That text us not done just this episode. So I predict will have an awesome mirror of Tech Stuff podcast and hopefully that will come true. If you guys have any cool predictions or you want to take issue with something that Chris or I said, you can do so on Facebook or Twitter. Are handle There is tech Stuff hs W at both Facebook and Twitter. Or you can email us that at us is tech stuff at how stuff works dot com. Chris and I will talk to you again really soon. For moral nous and thousands of other topics. Visit how stuff works dot com. 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