epic 2015: the future of the internet

[robot]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

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[Young Jeff Bridges]

so while this was loading
i was thinking of this thing i saw a while ago
about google taking over the world basically
and then this loaded
and i was all 'hey!!! this is it!'
yeah
this is neat

[Forever Finite]

it's interesting but i think that since we don't know what will be invented or marketed in the future, we can't really even speculate how information exchange will be. not even in the near future.

however, i am pretty sure that the united states won't have much to do with it. europe and japan are already screetching ahead of us as far as information networks, designing, games, and teaching tools goes. the US will be more like the feild in which the products play tag.

[moose]

Google should release their own Linux distro.

[implode]

it's... interesting. to say the least. but even if it's entirely accurate, and the future is a landscape of strictly personalized content and psuedo-wikis, so what? the only harm that could come of it would be more simple access to identity theft and manipulation*, what with a more detailed outline of your personality available, and the potential to be misled much, much more easily by venomous users out to do nothing but fuck with your head.

very, very interesting, anyway. much respect out to robin sloan and matt thompson. it actually kind of reminded me of this ACLU video i saw one day, in a sense.

<small>*however, this is a very big "only harm." this reminded me of <a href="http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf">THIS</a> video about national identification numbers. i know it's an ACLU video, but give it a chance - it's actually quite terrifying.</small>

[Forever Finite]

haha. that's FUNNY if you ask me.

it seems a little unrealistic, though. if that much information were stored in some kind of network, there would be very strict access to it. no po-dunk pizza place would be allowed to just look at your walgreens shopping list.

[implode]

well, yeah, it's a bit sensationalist (it's the ACLU, after all)... but the point is to illustrate the lengths that such a network could be taken to. and with marketing reaching such an incredible scope as it already has (you don't think there's already drafts somewhere about your personal preferences, so vendors can better cater to your individual needs?) the potential for abuse and deception and bribery and whatnot is would certainly be more possible with a centralized network of blah blah blah man i'm hungry.

[cyberen]

bleh, scary. Let's all say goodbye and live in caves until we can be responsible with the technology we make.