imagine the internet in 100 years

[vro]

imagine places like youtube, seeing videos uploaded 100 years from now and the comments all saying wow this person is dead by now. what if riu is still up? imagine the people reading stuff posted 100 years ago thinking wtf these people are all dead now. how long do you think the internet is going to last? every generation onward is not going to know a world without phones or internet.

 

[Commander Strax]

 

[tyler.durden]

 

[Diabolical666]

Alot of these people on RIU are making history.

 

[Singlemalt]

imagine places like youtube, seeing videos uploaded 100 years from now and the comments all saying wow this person is dead by now. what if riu is still up? imagine the people reading stuff posted 100 years ago thinking wtf these people are all dead now. how long do you think the internet is going to last? every generation onward is not going to know a world without phones or internet.

I wonder if we'll be free?

 

[curious2garden]

imagine places like youtube, seeing videos uploaded 100 years from now and the comments all saying wow this person is dead by now. what if riu is still up? imagine the people reading stuff posted 100 years ago thinking wtf these people are all dead now. how long do you think the internet is going to last? every generation onward is not going to know a world without phones or internet.

Based upon current trends I doubt the future of the internet will be text based.

I wonder if we'll be free?

Enslaved by the 'net, that is scary and possible.

 

[Singlemalt]

Based upon current trends I doubt the future of the internet will be text based.


Enslaved by the 'net, that is scary and possible.

Yeah, but I don't want to put Vro over the top

 

[Unclebaldrick]

In 100 years I expect the term "Internet" to be hopelessly quaint.

I expect that we will all live in boxes that are interconnected by those air tube things at banks.

 

[Unclebaldrick]

The very rich will be able to print us on command, have their way with us, and decompile us. They won't even need the sandwich.

 

[curious2garden]

In 100 years I expect the term "Internet" to be hopelessly quaint.

I expect that we will all live in boxes that are interconnected by those air tube things at banks.

I think boxes are right but I would quibble with pneumatic tubes, sadly. I love the whooshing sound they make it is music to my ears.

 

[Singlemalt]

When I was a little kid our local JC Pennys had the tubes at each register; the store was 3 stories built on the side of a hill so that 1 and 3 were street level depending upon where you entered. It had an escalator inside and the tubes were right along side it top to bottom; the tubes were clear so you could see stuff zipping along. Mom would shop and I'd go up and down the escalator watching the tube

 

[dux]

Then we start living in the Soylent green movie too !

 

[curious2garden]

I think boxes are right but I would quibble with pneumatic tubes, sadly. I love the whooshing sound they make it is music to my ears.

OH and we used to occasionally send food through them Although there were many nasty memo's generated by the day shift about NOT using the tubes for that. The internet is NOT better, you can't get a PB&J or cashews over Cat 5 or 6.

 

[Unclebaldrick]

When I was a little kid our local JC Pennys had the tubes at each register; the store was 3 stories built on the side of a hill so that 1 and 3 were street level depending upon where you entered. It had an escalator inside and the tubes were right along side it top to bottom; the tubes were clear so you could see stuff zipping along. Mom would shop and I'd go up and down the escalator watching the tube

Sadly, no jet packs.

 

[Unclebaldrick]

OH and we used to occasionally send food through them Although there were many nasty memo's generated by the day shift about NOT using the tubes for that. Fuck em eh?

I have always wanted send a mouse to my teller.

 

[curious2garden]

I have always wanted send a mouse to my teller.

LOL, cameras!

 

[curious2garden]

When I was a little kid our local JC Pennys had the tubes at each register; the store was 3 stories built on the side of a hill so that 1 and 3 were street level depending upon where you entered. It had an escalator inside and the tubes were right along side it top to bottom; the tubes were clear so you could see stuff zipping along. Mom would shop and I'd go up and down the escalator watching the tube

I imagine that was one reason. How about all the women wearing dresses eh?

 

[ttystikk]

imagine places like youtube, seeing videos uploaded 100 years from now and the comments all saying wow this person is dead by now. what if riu is still up? imagine the people reading stuff posted 100 years ago thinking wtf these people are all dead now. how long do you think the internet is going to last? every generation onward is not going to know a world without phones or internet.

Most of the stuff that's more than 5 years old is dumped- and thus lost. It would be a shame if this continued.

I plan to continue writing, but the stuff I want to be sure the future sees will be published... in that quaint old school technology called 'books'.

 

[ttystikk]

Alot of these people on RIU are making history.

True that!

 

[BarnBuster]