Have you ever seen and compared an equal sized (assuming an aspect ratio of 16:9) 4k TV against a 1080p TV with appropriate content respectively? There is a huge difference although there is little content for 4k TV at the moment.

Err 4k TV with an aspect ratio of 16:9 (most HDTV's are this) is actually 2160p (3840x2160 pixles) and surprisingly the difference in price may only be about 20% more than a HDTV. 8k HDTV's are really in the prototype stage and will most likely be quite expensive when they do come out.

This is going to be interesting, since there are few if any content providers (ie. Free to Air, Foxtel, etc) that provide more than 720p and will not provide 1080p content for the foreseeable future so what hope for 4k and 8k. I would assume the 4k and eventually 8k content will be on Blu-Ray disks which would require you purchasing a 4k (PS4 and XBone can supposedly do this) and eventually an 8k display device (PS5 and maybe an XB180/??? :)).

As a Professional Electrical Engineer I have always enjoyed Scott Adams Dilbert cartoons and looking at his education he is no layman having attended Hartwick College and the University of California, Berkeley where he received an MBA in economics and management.

While his proposal seem to be the stuff of Sci-Fi the principles are valid although I personally doubt with our current technology that it would feasible in our lifetime and taking a few pages out of his Dilbert books the amount of management (includes private and governmental) cooperation would be staggering.

Taking a simple example: What has happened to the Space Elevator?

Actually English is derived from a West German dialect called Frisian, however over the centuries it has incorporated many other languages including early French and Danish. Still you are right it is relatively easy to translate English to German and vice-versa however it is also very easy to to stuff up the context which can easily be misinterpreted. A good example of this is to go to a web site that is in a different language and see how the page translator handles this.

Japanese or even to Chinese to English translations can be quite strange to the English speaker and that is only translating the written language. As for almost real time translation of the spoken word I hope lazy diplomats don;t even use this technology (at least not yet) otherwise World War III is just around the corner :)

Why would you want to pay to "outsource" an application that you could easily run on your PC and have full control of everything?

What makes you so sure that it is any easier for the average PC user to actually use "Cloud" services compared to actually running their own applications on their PC?

The so called "Cloud" is a marketing buzzword that IT people back in the early 1980's knew as "Remote IT Services". So far nothing has changed.

The problem with using the "Cloud" is that you have to pay for it. This maybe fine for corporations who have done their homework (many don't) and have the money which means weighting up the advantages, disadvantages and overall costs. As for the standard home PC user they also have to do their homework and "outsourcing" one or more applications to the "Cloud" when their home machine can just as easily do the same job is IMHO just plain stupid.

As for the hassle of a PC you should keep maintained. You have heard of automatic updates although personally I prefer manually doing them. Even doing backups I would love to know of any "Cloud" service that would allow you to backup 1TB or more cheaply and as for recovery has this been tested or do you pay the excess to your ISP when the need arises.

While I do agree with you to a certain point it must be pointed out that if the monitor or even a HDTV (4k or 1080p or 720p) has an aspect ration of say 16:9 which is what many Hi Def monitors and most HDTV's are then if you are dependent on the aspect ratio of the content be it game or movie. If the content's aspect ration is say 16:9 then the display of that content will fully fill a 16:9 screen. However if the content has an aspect ratio other then the aspect ratio of the screen which has physical dimensions and cannot be changed you are going to have what is called "letter-boxing".

For a monitor more real estate is great however that may not be ideal for some movies or games. In fact it is quite bewildering/annoying that some content which is best viewed full screen may have to be letter-boxed to keep the appropriate proportions (ie. aspect ratio). Do a quick Google search on "aspect ratio" and you will get 54 million hits of which many could explain this issue better than I can without writing a paper on it.

Yes you can unless you have a problem with your eyes.

If you take a 4k TV with an aspect ration of 16:9 which is the same as most (not all) HDTV's on the market then the pixel resolution is going to be 3840x2160 (ie 2160p) which actually can almost look like a photograph (assuming the appropriate content). This is not to say 1080p is bad in comparison however once you get into larger screen sizes such as say 80 inch (203.2 cm) upwards the difference in screen resolution become much more pronounced.