I'm a subscriber to Wired Magazine. It's quite an impressive wealth of information ranging everything from technology to culture themes to politics. Every time I sit down to browse over each month's issue, I'm astounded at the knowledge they compile. They literally are tapped in "wired" to this day and age...and even what we should be seeing in the future. I find it inspiring and sometimes altogether dumbfounding. Anyways, I stumbled on Wired's "Wild Predictions for 2007" and I wanted to share. I realize allot of these predictions are improbable and some altogether silly, but there are some that you may find quite haunting, and that may in fact, be closer to becoming reality than we think. Check it out:
The Predictions
Which ones you guys think are possible?
My choice is the one that predicts a big tele network releasing the first sitcom to be exclusively viewed on the internet. Watch for it, it's totally going to happen.
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19 comments:
Well, Cody, I will leave it to the younger members to make intelligent comments on your blog.Of course, right now, I believe that is everyone else but me.
If it were left to me, you could tell me that all of the list is already happening, and I would simply nod wisely.
Thank goodness your generation is taking up the slack.
First off, thanks to Cody for that web site. I went off to read the predictions and ended up reading a bunch of other articles before I came back here. I may have to check into the hardcopy too.
As to my bet, I say internet traffic will double. With all the cra... media that's now streaming across the web (a la Youtube), VOIP, VPN tunnelling for private networks, new and better ways to deliver spam, it's got to happen. I've been playing with computer since a 1200 baud modem was so expensive only businesses invested in them and what I've seen is a mad thirst for connectivity.
On the other hand, your thought of the internet-only sitcom is not so far behind. I don't have the link anymore, but I used to know of a website that offered animated cartoons which changed regularly. So how hard would it be for a live-action sitcom to do the same?
(BTW, I snuck in and changed your url, because on my screen, it ran off the edge and I couldn't cut and paste it.)
And just in time...
NetFlix delivered over Internet
Interesting articles, both of you. Cody and I actually suscribe to NetFlix, and we LOVE it. For about $15 a month we watch an average of 6 movies - at Blockbuster that would have cost about $25.00 or more. It works out well - TV kinda bores us (plus we hate commercials), and its a neat way to see those movies you have always wanted to watch but never remember once you are in the video store.
I agree with you Uncle Matt. I believe the Internet traffic would be doubled. As a very small sample, last year we greatly increased the number of prospects and clients from out of town and internationally. They found us from our website and search engines. So, I don't think it would be difficult for the internet to reach double traffic this year. Myself, the internet is my consultant in every field. I use the internet to check grammar every day in business correspondence. Without the internet, I am a Mexican who walked across the border to Burbank.
Another prediction, I believe MySpace will space out and Dusty will drive back to Grand Canyon again and says “ "umm, so I drove for a million hours to see this?" But he still drives back there every year.
Uncle Matt, what are VOIP, VPN, and baud? Can we use them in cooking?
Stink,
No. We don't change the way things are cooked. "It's for 'beauty.'"
Dear Uncle Matt,
You call that an explanation?
I didn't think anyone really cared.
VOIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol. Using the internet for your long distance (and local) phone service. Think Vonage & Skype.
VPN: Virtual Private Network. This makes a "secure tunnel" from your PC at home to a private corporate network. Work-at-homes use this to communicate securely with the company mail server and other private corporate network resources.
baud: The number of times a piece of data transmission device can change its carrier wave per second. Replaced in modern days with "bps" (bits per second) as a more accurate representation of the speed data can be transferred by a device. Your 56K modem can theoretically transfer data at 57344 bits per second in perfect conditions (derived from 56 x 1024).
I could give a longer dissertation, but by now anyone still reading is doing so sheerly out of courtesy.
And as far as cooking -- some things are done just the way they're done "for beauty" and are not to be messed with by engineering-minded buffoons who have an eye toward efficiency.
It may have been more information than i could use, but it certainly left me impressed. Of course, it is easy to impress the old folks.
Uncle Matt,
You explanation looks familiar. Are they from Wikipedia....
Mrs. Stinky,
Actually I didn't think of wikipedia. That would have been easier. But that's stuff I've used at work for years, so it's not so hard to define the terms. What's hard is to keep the definition short enough that people don't fall asleep before they figure out what you're trying to say.
Ok - plug from the Small house again. We use Vonage - and we LOVE it. I can call anyone (aka Grandma) with any area code from my home phone and have no long distance fees ever. Thats the only computer term I recognized, and I thought I was pretty dang cool for that!
Uncle Matt,
Sorry, I only forgot to write "Just Kidding".(Don't forget to mock my accents.)
Actually,if someone asks me, I'm not sure that I can answer those questions from my heart either.If you can do computer programming like you are doing in your work now, you are Mr.Technical geek for me.
Aye, sir.
ees,
Does Vonage have that little 911 problem figured out yet?
atleast they are coming from the heart
eesmall: huh?
But I am not knocking it, being the aka referred to.
ok, I am a little lost.
I had said "atleast they are coming from the heart" because Stinky had said"if someone asks me, I'm not sure that I can answer those questions from my heart either"
And yes, long story short with Vonage, the 911 thing works very much like normal 911, excpet if I lived in a very very rural place they would have to have my 911 call go to vonage first an then to the emergency staff. But, since I live in a normal city, 911 is pretty normal. Actually its kinda cool, they set up a file for me ahead of time so by the time my 911 call ever reaches any emergency dispatcher they already know all my info (name, address, phone number, apt number, number of people living in my apt, etc). The only catch is that if my cable goes out, I don't have a land line. This is a non-issue since we also have cell phones to use as back-up.
It really is a great program. I will stop with the commercial now, but if you want more info, you know where I am!
Eesmall, I get it now. Thanks for clarifying. I think you weren't the one lost.
As for commercials, there will be a small charge for that in this family blog. Please submit all copy to the chairman in advance. This includes public service annoncements and appeals for charity.
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