Hi Tech Futuristic Hotels

I have finally found something worth sharing in this space... a peak into the future hotels that claim they will be offering virtual love making, dream management and high tech contact lenses to their guests.

It was revealed through a published study titled, 'The Future Of Sleep' done by Ian Pearson who is an engineer and futurologist. The hotel chain Travelodge in UK conducted this study. They claim hoteling experience will change completely by 2030 through this study.

Pearson said that technology will monitor guests energy levels, health and mood to ensure they get a good night's sleep. Even medical conditions could be diagnosed via this technology. Dreams could be controlled in the future and learn new languages while we are asleep in the coming years.

Dreams will look like reality and one could replay their favorite dreams again and again from a menu. This also means one could enjoy being with different partners in their dreams and feel as great as if it is all real. Virtual love making would allow partners to enjoy intimacy even when they are away from their home or not together to put it simply.

According to Pearson, we will then live in an augmented reality. Our real life will be integrated with the digital world and one could views television on any surface of the hotel. Besides, all these features will not be expensive also.

It does sound like some movie but the study is very confident using the engineering approach that this would indeed be the future. Actually, I have seen so many movies on these lines about the future that I do feel all of this will happen pretty soon with the advancement of technology but it would all be so unreal and fake.

I don't want to live in those times. Perhaps it is because I have lived in a time when things were not so hi-tech so I know what it is like to live without them. But the younger generations do not even have a clue of a life without technology. Such a future is going to be a major attraction for them and they would certainly prefer to enjoy augmented realities.

It looks like the future generations will almost let go off the reality in those times. Things will be even more high-tech as explained by this study. It will not just be the hotels but everything will be like that. Honestly, I find it creepy but it is destined to happen if the world survives by then.

Media Cravings Are Similar To Drug Addiction

Technology is getting powerful with each passing day. It is definitely becoming an integral part of our lives. But the most affected ones are the youth and the even younger generations because they have not seen a life without technology.

An interesting study regarding the same was published by the university's International Centre for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) and the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change. This study has revealed some alarming results.

According to this study titled 'The World Unplugged' most students cannot spend a single day without media. 1000 university students were interviewed at 12 campuses from 10 countries that included UK, China and America. The students were not allowed to use laptops, cell phones, internet, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and were not even allowed to watch Television. They were allowed to read books and use their landline telephones.

They can never complete 24 hours straight without access to media and technology. 4 out of 5 students felt mental and physical distress, panic, confusion and isolation when they were forced to unplug from technology for one day. College students across the globe admitted that they were addicted to modern technology such as mobile phones, laptops, social networking sites (Facebook/Twitter) and even television.

Students expressed that they had cravings to use media. They had anxiety attacks and suffered from depression during the time they could not use media. One American student openly said that his craving was the same as the itching feeling of a cocaine addict.

Another revelation was that some students ended up having deeper conversations with others when they were unplugged. Only 21% of the students could feel the benefits of being unplugged.

I think the digital media has taken over...It is ruling our lives and will rule us Big Time! Obviously, the younger generations will be absolute media druggies because they have no sense of a life where there is no media but technology has made older tech savvy people quite an addict too. There is definitely no escape. The reason for the addiction could be many - isolation, comfort, solitude. There must be something that is taking away the real life out of our lives and is leading us to a virtual life.

Infant Mortality Rate Goes Down By 60%

Although technology is leading to issues like sexting just as my previous post explains, we can also not ignore the benefits of advancement.

Experts feel that better technology and medical care has led to 60% decline in infant mortality rate. This means that now lesser babies die before their first birthdays. However, babies born to very young mothers remain at risk.

In the past three decades, the number of newborns who died within 28 days of birth has fallen by 60% while the number of babies who died between a month and one year has fallen by 68%.

This is a report on UK but the trend is the same for the developed nations. However, England and Wales still have the highest infant mortality rate in Europe and they are focusing on bringing the number down. For countries like Pakistan where survival is a miracle for all, we can hope God will guide us and give our kids better lives.

Sexting - A New Social Issue

Sexting is the new social problem facing the world. With modern technology, the social issues change as well and sexting seems to be a similar phenomenon.

Sexting is sending of sexually explicit photographs via text messages. Teenagers, both girls and boys are falling for it immensely. It is leading to premature sexualisation of kids and can lead to sexually transmitted diseases. Thus, another social problem is on rise.

A latest development is that the kids are circulating nude pictures of themselves or their friends to others. School staff in Britain and other countries are worried that their students are going to get into trouble and it is time some action is taken regarding sexting.

According to a research in Britain, 4 out of every 10 kids aged 11 to 16 know that sexting takes place in their schools. Half of these children take part in sexting themselves although they know that their pictures will be circulated around. A research conducted in Plymouth University showed that 40% of teenagers don't consider topless pictures of young girls to be inappropriate either.

Adults feel it is the overall exposure to pornography on the internet that is leading to such behavioral change amongst the kids. Academicians also suggest a law should be made against sexting and teenagers should be tried in the court of law if they possesses explicit images of minors just like an adult is treated.

Well, till a few days back I thought only Britney Spears was involved in sexting but see how technology is leading to other social issues. I really don't know how a check is done on these things and modern technologies. But even when things like video chat and skype were introduced people all over the world irrespective of age, gender and religious beliefs got involved in cyber sex and much more. Indeed, it is not nice that kids are getting involved in these things that they cannot really handle well. It is not just sex and the diseases that will be caused but it will also lead to disturbing many kids mentally for the longest time and by the time they will realize what they did when they were 14 was wrong, they would have spend half of their lives.

Prostitutes Turn to Facebook

A survey of sex workers in New York City finds that 83% of prostitutes have a Facebook page. Earlier on it wasn’t FB but Craigslist (another website) that was favored by them. Even before the crackdown on the site, prostitutes were turning to FB.

Prostitutes also say that having a Blackberry is significant in this business. In fact, digital technology has helped professionalize such transactions. These sex workers can very easily avoid pimps & madams & keep 100 % of their profits.

“Between 2003 and 2008, the share of regular clients coming from Craigslist fell from 9% to 3%, while the share from Facebook jumped from zero to 25%...by the end of 2011, Facebook will be the leading on-line recruitment space," Venkatesh declares in Wired.

At the same time The New York Daily News reports that "Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said the site comes down hard on anyone who uses it for illegal ends." However, that won’t stop people from using it for their business of any kind I guess. And it won’t be fair either to stop them from advertising online.