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#1
Posted 19 September 2011 - 01:58 AM

#2
Posted 19 September 2011 - 05:23 AM

#3
Posted 19 September 2011 - 09:06 AM

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
Stephen Hawking
#4
Posted 19 September 2011 - 10:46 AM

~Jon
#5
Posted 19 September 2011 - 10:50 AM

#6
Posted 19 September 2011 - 11:41 AM

The Internet will expand to eventually cover the entire Virgo supercluster, and perhaps ultimately the entire Universe.
Pfft, I spit on your universe and it's puny physical limitations, and raise you one virtuverse, where physcial laws mean nothing and there is no end to the dimensionality

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Posted 19 September 2011 - 11:47 AM


#8
Posted 19 September 2011 - 01:42 PM

The Internet will expand to eventually cover the entire Virgo supercluster, and perhaps ultimately the entire Universe.
Woo! Bring it on! The internet is here for good.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#9
Posted 19 September 2011 - 01:57 PM

I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one
#10
Posted 19 September 2011 - 02:53 PM

Possibly within our own lifetimes, tbh.You'll need no devices, and you'll never have to log in, and you'll never log out.
~Jon
#11
Posted 19 September 2011 - 02:54 PM

You'll need no devices, and you'll never have to log in, and you'll never log out.
Aye you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave...
#12
Posted 19 September 2011 - 04:04 PM

Assuming no apocalyptic event of our own, I imagine the internet of 2021 will be a significantly different platform to that which we are using today, let alone the internet of a hundred years hence, I think some kind of integrated, socially networked augmented reality is the going to be the next big thing before eventually leading into realistic virtual worlds and the like (perhaps Caprica offers a decent vision on how this might look in a near-future human society?)
yep, Caprica does offer some insights and I tend to agree, Internet will indeed become amalgamation of real life and virtual reality, how far will this take us, its hard to guess, but Caprica certainly did get some good ideas upfront.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
#13
Posted 19 September 2011 - 06:30 PM

Assuming no apocalyptic event of our own, I imagine the internet of 2021 will be a significantly different platform to that which we are using today, let alone the internet of a hundred years hence, I think some kind of integrated, socially networked augmented reality is the going to be the next big thing before eventually leading into realistic virtual worlds and the like (perhaps Caprica offers a decent vision on how this might look in a near-future human society?)
yep, Caprica does offer some insights and I tend to agree, Internet will indeed become amalgamation of real life and virtual reality, how far will this take us, its hard to guess, but Caprica certainly did get some good ideas upfront.
Read Snowcrash and Neuromancer.
#14
Posted 19 September 2011 - 06:40 PM

#15
Posted 19 September 2011 - 07:12 PM

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
#16
Posted 19 September 2011 - 07:16 PM

With technology evolving so rapidally the only ones who will be able to understand it will be the programmers, nerds and hackers. Since nerds and programmers are really hackers at heart, what does that mean for society in general?
Do those who support the Venus Project expect that hackers won't try to penetrate their systems and give unlimted free food to all those on their facebook and leave the rest starving? Even though these hackers take down systems for fun or the good of society in their own twisted views? They even do massive hacks enough to gain media attention. (Wikileaks & Anonymous)
In the TV show Sliders one depiction of where the world might be heading is the idea that society might split up into two sepearte groups. (We already see this in American Politics). One group will want to live off grid, one group will want to embrance technology to the point where its impossible to tell if they are more human/machine. I think that this is one of the best overlooked depitictions of the future.
I don't think you need to force someone to use technologies if they don't want to. They may have a hard time functioning in society, but they can still live how they want.
#17
Posted 19 September 2011 - 08:23 PM

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#18
Posted 19 September 2011 - 08:31 PM

#19
Posted 19 September 2011 - 10:16 PM

Ray Kurzweil and those who support the Venus Project as well, think that technology, particularly the internet, will soon become an integrated and internal part in society. But will it?
The internet is already an integral part of our society.
#20
Posted 19 September 2011 - 10:17 PM

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