10 Years From Now

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Let us change the subject in here and really get into a good subject that I think we all will enjoy. What I want to know is what do you think or believe that computers and the internet is going to be like in 10 years. See you in 5 days.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

10 years older?

[Undying Wizard NHD]

well if my math is right, in 1999 we had 500mhz,, 2001 1000mhz 2004, 3000-4000 mhz at this growing rate in 10 years we will probally have 40,000 mhz--- 60,000mhz---- also I been drinking so my math my not be right

[Muffin_Man]

well if my math is right, in 1999 we had 500mhz,, 2001 1000mhz 2004, 3000-4000 mhz at this growing rate in 10 years we will probally have 40,000 mhz--- 60,000mhz---- also I been drinking so my math my not be right

and they will still be too slow for the next buggy release of windows.

[Whistler]

The game industry will dominate the movie industry, or holodecks well get invented :)

[Lofty]

The speed of computers has been pretty much doubling every year for the last ten years. If the trend continues, computers will be about 1000 times faster in 10 years than they are now. This doesn't mean we'll have processors running at 3000Ghz - it's already getting difficult for processor designers to increase the clock speed - but we're likely to see massive parallel processing and other techniques that'll make computers much faster than they are today.

[tamarisk]

Well who knows according to Moore's law yes computers will be running at 3000GHZ.

But it's true i think distributed computing, (processor) renting will be available on demand.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Lately, to me anyway, it seems the CPU speeds have leveled off alot. The main focus has been RAM speed. They focus more on the "hyper threading" and whatever AMD is calling it.

[muffenme]

:fire

Would that be 1024 times to be right, 2^10. I hope DRM is dead way before then, holo deak would be in and we could ask a computer to make us something to eat and clean up.

:hole

[Afn]

Just for fun, I will take the opposite view.


In the next 5 years we will have a global depression, repressive laws and the few high tech jobs will be replaced by humanoid robots.

New technology will advance at an ever increasing rate, while the people that hold access to the technology will only distribute the technology to those who can pay the most money to access it.

We will be closer to nanotech, understanding how biological systems age and decay, but our social systems will be in chaos as technology and people do not see the big picture of making society work for everyone in it, not just the select few that have friends and family in the corporate lifestyle and access to wealth.

In about 10 years people will wake up and demand massive reforms.

The question is, is it too late?

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Just for fun, I will take the opposite view.


In the next 5 years we will have a global depression, repressive laws and the few high tech jobs will be replaced by humanoid robots.

New technology will advance at an ever increasing rate, while the people that hold access to the technology will only distribute the technology to those who can pay the most money to access it.

We will be closer to nanotech, understanding how biological systems age and decay, but our social systems will be in chaos as technology and people do not see the big picture of making society work for everyone in it, not just the select few that have friends and family in the corporate lifestyle and access to wealth.

In about 10 years people will wake up and demand massive reforms.

The question is, is it too late?
Interesting prediction, I wasn’t going to check this until I got back from my trip and lucky me I came across this post. I got to hand it to you; you blew me away with that speech. You know what? I am totally speechless and I am defiantly leaving this one alone.

[Arch Stanton]

don't forget about walt disney's head being brought out of cryogenic freezing and back to life. maaaannnnn is he gonna be pissed!!!

[black_magiic]

Intel has already come up with a new process of making processors that they hope in the next 2 years will be able to bring processor speeds up to 10Ghz

[Afn]

Interesting prediction, I wasn’t going to check this until I got back from my trip and lucky me I came across this post. I got to hand it to you; you blew me away with that speech. You know what? I am totally speechless and I am defiantly leaving this one alone.

Why leave it alone? Debate is fun.

If you like that, you might like the national peer to peer radio show. One of the shows was on what if intelectual property fails. You might like it. You can download it free from the site or on emule/edonkey link.

[mcovey]

I think that in 10 years the computer as we know it will have been replaced by TVs with internet and harddrives, cell phones with planners, video chat and messengers, and wireless syncing for all of this. People will not know/care that they are being snooped on by the government, who, under the partiot act, will have mandates that all electronics companies create them backdoors for wiretapping.

Desktops will be a niche market used by programmers, the nostalgic, and the "paranoid". America will begin censoring it's internet due to public outcry against spam, child porn, and other issues. There will of couse, be some type of split off the internet, perhaps an open source protocol for information exchange that is used by a few techs who don't wish to be a part of the grand, censored and tapped scheme. Filesharing will be dead, but the music industry will have finally sorted things out, one way or another, making everyone (who doesn't want free music) happy. They won't have to worry about the russian sites because the government, at their request, will have blocked the sites; Nobody will be able to proxy through to them because the government will also assign everyone a static IP for tracking purposes. Almost all independent ISPs will have been bankrupt by the impossible costs that the proprietary backdoor software demands, and the few left (AOL, earthlink, etc.) will all be compliant, if for nothing else fear of being forcibly closed.

As society relies more and more on technology and cheap methods of communications, people will come to be like they were in Fahrenheit 451, they will be happy, because they are ignorant. The next generation (babies born circa 1998) will have no concept of privacy, because they will have grown up in an insecure society, and will have no concept of a face-to-face conversation; anything not seen through the phone's camera or the webcam will be akward and short-lived.

The version of windows following blackcomb will be even more invasive, not only requiring a proprietary chipset and BIOS, but a fingerprint authenticiation system which stores your fingerprint in a microsoft-owned, government-accessible database, and also logs your keystrokes and keeps a history of all of your activiy, on both a local, and server-cached copy. The operating system will block all "unapproved" software, such as for use for filesharing, keygens, cracks, etc.... all non-DRMS music will refuse to play, and for "security reasons" windows media player will be the only media player available to Windows users.

Apple will no longer sell desktop computers, and will have moved totally into the music industry. They will open stores that sell music with their own brand of DRM that they have stricken a deal with MS to get to play in windows media player.

Linux will still be a viable OS choice, used by about the same percent of users as it is now. Undoubtedly the proprietary Wintel motherboard will have been hacked so Linux will run smoothly on it, but you run the risk of being arrested, as Linux is strictly illegal because it does not report back non-anonymous usage reports (although some commerical brands of linux will have sold out and will due just that).

The world will be a cheap place where people rely merely on sex, alchohol and rave-drugs for excitement, bringing their camera/video recorder phone/doohickeys with them so they can chronicle their adventures on the internet, where everybody will have a webpage or blog, because it's yet another means of communication that avoids direct human interaction.

I know it sounds like the matrix, and my suggestions are probably another 30-40 years off but I believe that something like this will happen. I feel very strongly about the way that technology and tech legislation are going, and I think it's the wrong way. Mark my words, you should be afraid for your children. Barring a total collapse of our communications infrastructure, the world ain't getting any more private/safer/conservative/what have you, and this will happen someday.

Maybe one good thing will come out of this: you will be able to legally play DVDs on the (legal) versions of linux.

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Why leave it alone? Debate is fun.

If you like that, you might like the national peer to peer radio show. One of the shows was on what if intelectual property fails. You might like it. You can download it free from the site or on emule/edonkey link.

I intend to comment on this issue but I was so freaked out by your posting you caught me off guard. Because most of what you said is most likely happen. It had a high probability of the course of human nature. I was truly taken back on that post, and not to mention it was kind of creepy, I still am recovering from the goose bumps.

You truly brought this board room to full attention. I really want to thank you though you gave me a lot to think about. I feel like some one hit me in the head with a brick. Where did that come from anyway?

I also want to tell you from this day forward I promise you that I will pay full attention to all of your postings. You should feel proud and every one in here should recognize you for that post because people his posting is the most likely to happen if things don’t change. Our technology is so rapidly accelerating so fast that it is impossible to keep up with the Joneses. You can spend thousands of dollars one week and by the following week you are already behind in technology.

Thank you

[IshareManyFilez]

In 10 years from now technology will increase slightly but not put us into a "nano" age. Technology can only go so far and I think at a time the rate of the increase in technology will stop and even out. Yes, you will have new monitors 6 TB hard drives wireless internet acess and anything else that you can think of but computers as a whole can only increase so much.

[Siskabush]

The RIAA will make policeware mandatory in all computers, the computer industry fades, with it goes the music, movie and game industries, we have a global economic crash, bush blames it on the terrorists and canada, nukes are launched, we all die.

Hey, its feasable!

[Krell]

It's 2004

It's 2004 so where's our rocket packs
It's two thousand and four so where's our rocket packs?
Go anywhere, we strap them on our backs

1. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now I'd walk the moon
And ride a car without no tires
And have a robot run the vacuum
And date a girl made out of wires
No thing's don't change that much, do they?
We are still out of touch, by now we should discover
Just how to love each other, like Klattus' robot man
Your looks have killed again

2. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd live in space
And eat a pill instead of dinner
And wear a gas mask on our face a President of female gender
Though progress marches on, (new day)
Our troubles will grow strong
And my expectancies, become my fantasies
You turn my blood to sand, the earth stands still again

My hopes are running low
things moving much too slow
No space men up above
And we're still so very far from love

3. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd build a dome
Around the world, control the weather
In every house, a picture phone; communicate a little better
But some things never change (replay!)
You are still acting strange
No way that I can see, this way we will be free

La la la la la la,la la la la la 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Lift off!






.

[Max420]

Just for fun, I will take the opposite view.


In the next 5 years we will have a global depression, repressive laws and the few high tech jobs will be replaced by humanoid robots.

New technology will advance at an ever increasing rate, while the people that hold access to the technology will only distribute the technology to those who can pay the most money to access it.

We will be closer to nanotech, understanding how biological systems age and decay, but our social systems will be in chaos as technology and people do not see the big picture of making society work for everyone in it, not just the select few that have friends and family in the corporate lifestyle and access to wealth.

In about 10 years people will wake up and demand massive reforms.

The question is, is it too late?

Wow, looking at it from that point of view, if you look at what the world is like now... It certainly looks like its going in that direction.


Very interesting.

[cheapprick]

@ Krell

That's not bad. : )

Original?

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Why leave it alone? Debate is fun.

If you like that, you might like the national peer to peer radio show. One of the shows was on what if intelectual property fails. You might like it. You can download it free from the site or on emule/edonkey link.I wasn’t going to touch this subject for a few days, but man you blew my socks off with that reply. It kind of reminded me of those short wav broadcast nightmare talk show. Your post has been on my mind all day long and I had to put a lot of thought into it. I came up with the conclusion that your views might be more then the truth and not far off base.
I think of how fast our technology is evolving as such a fast pace. Some times I get over whelmed by what is fact or fiction if that is the same then you can understand I am truly stuck in my own world. We are just on the edge of our true potential of our technology. Maybe I am naïve in many areas but I too see problems in the future but the problems I see are coming in our government changing over and unfinished business not being completed before this happens. But that is politics and this thread is not about that.

Where do I see our computers going? I really can’t imagine our true potential I see changes in the internet world and in internet providers. The digital age is just beginning yet is ready to move on to faster and better internet providers. I really am interested in fiber optics and how fast it is going to be. I have heard only rumors of this kind of internet connection and what their plans are for it. Where I live fiber optics are in place but at the same time are laying dormant and waiting for the technology to catch up. I have not seen a fiber optic modem for civilian use but I do know that fiber optic is in use on at least one Army base here in the states. That was five years ago though when we upgraded that whole base to the new age and the sad part is I never got the opportunity to fully see it work.
As for computers in ten years, a few guys up above already peaked out our computers to how fast they are going to be. I can’t imagine a thousands times faster. It does excite me though. I and the kids are always checking ASUS website for what is coming out next. There is just so much that can happen in ten years, which I can’t even grasp the concept of what could be it is what can happen that I think intrigues every computer buff. I am not sure what the next ten years will be like but I do pray that we are still here, and I pray for peace that we might be able to come together instead of fighting.

I can say this, no matter what happens in the next ten years I know where my place will be and that is where I am right now. I look forward to the day when I can walk my little girl down the aisle and give her away to a good man that will take care of her. That is my one and only goal is to live long enough for that to happen.

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

It's 2004

It's 2004 so where's our rocket packs
It's two thousand and four so where's our rocket packs?
Go anywhere, we strap them on our backs

1. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now I'd walk the moon
And ride a car without no tires
And have a robot run the vacuum
And date a girl made out of wires
No thing's don't change that much, do they?
We are still out of touch, by now we should discover
Just how to love each other, like Klattus' robot man
Your looks have killed again

2. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd live in space
And eat a pill instead of dinner
And wear a gas mask on our face a President of female gender
Though progress marches on, (new day)
Our troubles will grow strong
And my expectancies, become my fantasies
You turn my blood to sand, the earth stands still again

My hopes are running low
things moving much too slow
No space men up above
And we're still so very far from love

3. (It's the new millenia so where's our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we'd build a dome
Around the world, control the weather
In every house, a picture phone; communicate a little better
But some things never change (replay!)
You are still acting strange
No way that I can see, this way we will be free

La la la la la la,la la la la la 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Lift off!






.Would this be before or after we take over the whole world?

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Wow, looking at it from that point of view, if you look at what the world is like now... It certainly looks like its going in that direction.


Very interesting. I know I will go to bed with this on my mind.

[carbonated_H2O]

ok some of these predictions are scaring me..

[Undying Wizard NHD]

ok some of these predictions are scaring me..




Yeah I think mine was the more down to earth one,,,,,, but Im a dumbass so who knows

[Afn]

I intend to comment on this issue but I was so freaked out by your posting you caught me off guard. Because most of what you said is most likely happen. It had a high probability of the course of human nature. I was truly taken back on that post, and not to mention it was kind of creepy, I still am recovering from the goose bumps.

You truly brought this board room to full attention. I really want to thank you though you gave me a lot to think about. I feel like some one hit me in the head with a brick. Where did that come from anyway?

I also want to tell you from this day forward I promise you that I will pay full attention to all of your postings. You should feel proud and every one in here should recognize you for that post because people his posting is the most likely to happen if things don’t change. Our technology is so rapidly accelerating so fast that it is impossible to keep up with the Joneses. You can spend thousands of dollars one week and by the following week you are already behind in technology.

Thank youSure, no problem. Most of what is posted on irc and bbs is nice but meaningless, and you get a little older and read a few more books, and not just fluff fiction, you see the world from a different perspective.

Where did it come from? I am reminded of a line in the movie "Emipire Records"

shift manager: Joe, I think it will be ok.
store manager: What makes you think that?
shift manager: Who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear.

I could start a thread on that movie alone, but that is another debate for another time.

The problem of excellerating technology is every day you wake up, your deeper in debt, never to catch up.

[Afn]

I wasn’t going to touch this subject for a few days, but man you blew my socks off with that reply. It kind of reminded me of those 1. short wav broadcast nightmare talk show. Your post has been on my mind all day long and I had to put a lot of thought into it. I came up with the conclusion that your views might be more then the truth and not far off base.
I think of how fast our technology is evolving as such a fast pace. Some times I get over whelmed by what is fact or fiction if that is the same then you can understand I am truly stuck in my own world. We are just on the edge of our true potential of our technology. Maybe I am naïve in many areas but I too see problems in the future but the problems I see are coming in our government changing over and unfinished business not being completed before this happens. But that is politics and this thread is not about that.

Where do I see our computers going? I really can’t imagine our true potential I see changes in the internet world and in 2 internet providers. The digital age is just beginning yet is ready to move on to faster and better internet providers. I really am interested in 3 fiber optics and how fast it is going to be. I have heard only rumors of this kind of internet connection and what their plans are for it. Where I live fiber optics are in place but at the same time are laying dormant and waiting for the technology to catch up. I have not seen a fiber optic modem for civilian use but I do know that fiber optic is in use on at least one Army base here in the states. That was five years ago though when we upgraded that whole base to the new age and the sad part is I never got the opportunity to fully see it work.
As for computers in ten years, a few guys up above already peaked out our computers to how fast they are going to be. I can’t imagine a thousands times faster. It does excite me though. I and the kids are always checking ASUS website for what is coming out next. There is just so much that can happen in ten years, which I can’t even grasp the concept of what could be it is what can happen that I think intrigues every computer buff. I am not sure what the next ten years will be like but I do pray that we are still here, and I pray for peace that we might be able to come together instead of fighting.

I can say this, no matter what happens in the next ten years I know where my place will be and that is where I am right now. I look forward 4 to the day when I can walk my little girl down the aisle and give her away to a good man that will take care of her. That is my one and only goal is to live long enough for that to happen.
1. Shortwave was the internet before the internet existed, the best shortwave broadcaster was the BBC. The net makes shortwave obsolete.
2. I saw the same consolidation happen with the cable companies in the 1980's. The fcc had local programming requirements and all of these little cable companies had to buy vans of television production equipment. Well most of them, with the expense of laying all of that cable went bankrupt.

That is how TCI and TimeWarner was able to amass a large market. They would buy up all of the failed cable companies, get fairly new installs and not have to pay full market value.

The same will happen with ISPs.

The problem is, if your a person you can not own an ISP and make any money to buy the next round of technology to play the game. That is what I find very very scary.

Automation IS replacing jobs with automated systems... where automated systems can not be used, cheap labor is used. This trend will not end, and the people that have very good jobs for life... while most of us can't find any work to own anything of value or pay for that new car to go to work...

3. Fiber to the home will happen, but the problem is in the last mile. The switches and technology to make fiber to the home is too expensive at this time. (cost will drop...)
4. Yes, you are working hard to see your daughter have a better life. Provided your daughter does not get killed before she gets a college degree and finds mr. right... the society we have today is a mess. Now we are the adults, and we find that as a group we have less and less power and freedom than our parents or grandparents.

A good book to read is "Age of Access" by J. Rifkin

He says that print allowed people not to have to memorize information. So you could say that is what made print 'sticky'.

[Afn]

I think that in 10 years the computer as we know it will have been replaced by TVs with internet and harddrives, cell phones with planners, video chat and messengers, and wireless syncing for all of this.
[agree]

People will not know/care that they are being snooped on by the government, who, under the partiot act, will have mandates that all electronics companies create them backdoors for wiretapping.[kinda agree]

Desktops will be a niche market used by programmers, the nostalgic, and the "paranoid".[Desktops will be here for many years.]

America will begin censoring it's internet due to public outcry against spam, child porn, and other issues.[The censorship has started, and the big players will demand content protection and perhaps mandate congress to allow them to filter/block your internet connection for any reason without your consent]

There will of couse, be some type of split off the internet, perhaps an open source protocol for information exchange that is used by a few techs who don't wish to be a part of the grand, censored and tapped scheme. [Encrypted networks and sneakernet's will exist, but as the corporate propaganda and riaa brainwashing reaches every child in our nation's corporate educated and controled school system will make any type of non-offical form of distribution dangerous]

Filesharing will be dead, but the music industry will have finally sorted things out, one way or another, making everyone (who doesn't want free music) happy.[Filesharing is here to stay, the riaa does not know what is coming, the next depression may colapse much of the companies that sell media today might finish the big 5. What is created will be very different.]

They won't have to worry about the russian sites because the government, at their request, will have blocked the sites; Nobody will be able to proxy through to them because the government will also assign everyone a static IP for tracking purposes.[All they have to do is assign you with a lifetime ip address and then later pass a law that if you run any type of encrypted transmission subject to 'search due to national security issues']

Almost all independent ISPs will have been bankrupt by the impossible costs that the proprietary backdoor software demands, and the few left (AOL, earthlink, etc.) will all be compliant, if for nothing else fear of being forcibly closed.[The big players will make p2p transmissions impossible, slow and illegal so they can sell you all of that content they have on demand pay per view. If you own the channel, why whould you want to give access to p2p and the competition. Just buy the government and get access to get the laws you need to screw the average person from choice, while making and showing a nice return to your investors.]

As society relies more and more on technology and cheap methods of communications, people will [You will see the haves have it easier, live in gated communities and want laws to 'take care of those ignorant have nots that beg for food and water and more prisions to pay for all of those programmers who cant make any money because the jobs are now exported to india, china and iraq]

come to be like they were in Fahrenheit 451, they will be happy, because they are ignorant. The next generation (babies born circa 1998) will have no concept of privacy, because they will have grown up in an insecure society, and will have no concept of a face-to-face conversation[good comment];

anything not seen through the phone's camera or the webcam will be akward and short-lived.[So your saying the next generation of kids will have no social skills and unable to communicate in social situations unless it is (mediated) through technology. Cool thought. ]

The version of windows following blackcomb will be even more invasive, not only requiring a proprietary chipset and BIOS, but a fingerprint authenticiation system [fingerprints not secure as once thought. fingerprint, eyescan, stool sample will be needed to access your computer... that you do not own but rent from IB /\/ \. (joke) Really, dna lab on the chip might be the best way to just scan your dna for access. Smartcards and mandatory universal authentication to use computers might be the best solution. (best for making it easy to track any and all access to find and catch people that do not follow the normal user pattern. ]

which stores your fingerprint in a microsoft-owned, government-accessible database, and also logs your keystrokes and keeps a history of all of your activiy, on both a local, and server-cached copy. The operating system will block all "unapproved" software[That is cool, but scary if it is government mandated...like you can not play older software because XYZ requires you get permission from XYZ intelectual property holdings that scan all of your databases and conversations on irc, ect... and if it sees any conversation that is 'negative' to the company, denies you access.],

such as for use for filesharing, keygens, cracks, etc.... [Cracks and keygens are :( going away... open source the only solution to pay first crash later software] all non-DRMS music will refuse to play, and for "security reasons" windows media player will be the only media player available to Windows users.


[Wow, good post.]










Apple will no longer sell desktop computers, and will have moved totally into the music industry. They will open stores that sell music with their own brand of DRM that they have stricken a deal with MS to get to play in windows media player.[Apple is more of a name not a brand. Think apple as a omnimedia brand like Martha Stewart is. Soon you will see.. Apple toasters, Apple wallpaper, Apple humanoid robots. Products made by other companies but they just slap the apple brand on it and people get all warm and fuzzy.]

Linux will still be a viable OS choice, used by about the same percent of users as it is now. Undoubtedly the proprietary Wintel motherboard will have been hacked so Linux will run smoothly on it, but you run the risk of being arrested, as Linux is strictly illegal because it does not report back non-anonymous usage reports (although some commerical brands of linux will have sold out and will due just that).[Untrue... I think self programming computers will be a reality. I have designs and done tests, but still no VC, and autonomous computer technology is not my forte, so I will just leave you with the thought and move on.]

The world will be a cheap place where people rely merely on sex, alchohol and rave-drugs for excitement, bringing their camera/video recorder phone/doohickeys with them so they can chronicle their adventures on the internet, [97 tb to record a life of memories was reported in the media. Just 97 tb]

where everybody will have a webpage or blog, because it's yet another means of communication that avoids direct human interaction.[blogs will exist, but few will be read because that is not where the technology is going. Some corporation (not Google) will charge you access to the worlds blogs for 9.95 a month with enough material to give you to 4500 to read every day. Still the need for communication will make blogging not a fad but a very long term trend. ]

I know it sounds like the matrix, and my suggestions are probably another 30-40 years off but I believe that something like this will happen. I feel very strongly about the way that technology and tech legislation are going, and I think it's the wrong way.[Yes, yes, yes.]

Mark my words, you should be afraid for your children. Barring a total collapse of our communications infrastructure [very very possible.], the world ain't getting any more private/safer/conservative/what have you, [It is not as bad as it is, then again it is not that great either. ] and this will happen someday. [neotech 'great' depression very plausable. Radio stocks in the 1920's look like the internet boom of the late 90's]

Maybe one good thing will come out of this: you will be able to legally play DVDs on the (legal) versions of linux.[will never happen. riaa wants control of the medium. control the medium $$$$ ]

[CompuGeek]

Sorry to interrupt your privacy/civil rights meme, but I think computer tech needs some drastic changes before it can make any significant progress.

The newest computer components have more heatsinks and fans than PCBs and silicon. Unless something drastic changes video card coolers will block 3 PCI slots and cpu fans will be 120mm and spin at 10,000 rpm.

Computers need to get way more effecient and lose the moving parts as much as possible. Hard drives are a bottleneck for performance and one powerful desktop can make a small room uninhabitable with heat (and noise).

[Ken17625]

The Internet as we know it, wont exist.

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

The Internet as we know it, wont exist.

Alrighty then what will it be like then?

[CORRUPTERBUSTER]

Yeah I think mine was the more down to earth one,,,,,, but Im a dumbass so who knows

Down to earth is good infact it was really good simple but yet the truth.

[Afn]

Sorry to interrupt your privacy/civil rights meme, but I think computer tech needs some drastic changes before it can make any significant progress. (1)

The newest computer components have more heatsinks and fans than PCBs and silicon. Unless something drastic changes video card coolers will block 3 PCI slots and cpu fans will be 120mm and spin at 10,000 rpm.

Computers need to get way more effecient and lose the moving parts as much as possible. (2) Hard drives are a bottleneck for performance and one powerful desktop can make a small room uninhabitable with heat (and noise).(3)
1 No problem, that post where I went on my privacy/civil rights meme was just for fun.
2. Agree, the best system has no moving parts. No moving parts = less wear.
3. I disagree about the heat problem with computers, because I think faster is not what we need, we need better and more mobile solutions. If anything mobile computing with pda's with broadcast camera's and wi-max connections will make computer technology more available and useful in 10 years. I think for the average computer user, this is where the technology is going. "more interconectivity.'


I will make one final prediction, I think in 10 years we will have real time 30 to 60 frames a second photorealistic rendering hardware. This would allow for 'photo' based virtual reality.


'photo' based virtual reality would be one technology I would like to see.

[legendsofaranna]

I'll tell you what i think it will be:
People all over the world will be using fiber optics. Internet is in our everyday objects like watches. Artificial Intelligence is programmed to control robots with computers. All computers will be smaller because of nanotechnology. And there's going to be First Person Virtual Reality.

[legendsofaranna]

Alrighty then what will it be like then?
I heard there's going to be internet 2.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Come mista tally man, tally me post count...
daylight comin an me won go home

[legendsofaranna]

I hate to say this in zeropaid but I think p2p will be banned. I mean internet 2 will give you a dvd in 2 minutes. I know HDTV are coming out but dvd is not bad quality.

[Afn]

I hate to say this in zeropaid but I think p2p will be banned. I mean internet 2 will give you a dvd in 2 minutes. I know HDTV are coming out but dvd is not bad quality.

p2p is a function of the network. What could be regulated out of existance (doubtful) are non-conforming uses.

You do the math.

Fiber to the curb in 10 years? Doubtful. Try 25 years in major metropolitan areas.

in 10 years PDA's will get better, cheaper, new displays from japan and asia will have built in 3d displays. (3d with no glasses) Humanoid robots will be a mass consumer item, and once mass deployed, the technology will radically transform society as hackers extend and add functionality to existing commerical and consumer designs.. this will happen in 10 to 15 years, unless we have a great neo-tech great depression or global war.

[mfgbypooter]

10 years from now we will have had global thermonuclear war and the world as you know it now will be gone.

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[StonedCabbage]

****ing jesus .. thats a powerful insight man .. Nicely Done Mcovey you think like my mom
Paranoid?

This is a Great topic to read too when your Stoned man

Some of you have amazing posts real like hit u in the face type ****

[Afn]

10 years from now we will have had global thermonuclear war and the world as you know it now will be gone.

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I can not help but reference REM:

It is the end of the world as we know it...
It is the end of the world as we know it...
It is the end of the world as we know it...
and I feel fine.

Thermonuclear war? no problem. It all of those shit dumping humans that worry me. (joke)

[legendsofaranna]

There is a problem with nuclear war. Use it too much and there's going to be a nuclear winter. If shit dumping means pollution then nanotechnology will clean that up. And there is alternative energy.

[Afn]

There is a problem with nuclear war. Use it too much and there's going to be a nuclear winter. If shit dumping means pollution then nanotechnology will clean that up. And there is alternative energy.
Not in the quanity we need to run out technological society.


Nuclear winter is a theory. Not tested.... yet. As for nanotech, while nano is going to save humanity, why not add on the list of what it can do... it is going to prevent radiation sickness and clean up nuclear spills.


Nonotech is a great technology, let us hope it lives up to the hype. I think it will, but you never know until it is objective reality.

[legendsofaranna]

And how will we test it without triggering an ice age?

[Krell]

Not that different, just 10 years more polluted, 10 years more over-populated, and 10 years more in debt, and 10 years less freedoms.


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[legendsofaranna]

Overpopulation can be solve by going on mars. Fastest way to make mars turn into Earth is to blast a ammonia asteroid onto mars. As for going to mars, they will use solar energy. The pollution problem will be solve like I previously stated.

[Krell]

Utter Falicy

I want you to lok at the current rate of birth, then I want you to project what is that current rate of birth by the time we could conceivably colonize mars. Now, determine what is the rate at which we can populate Mars, and to what capacity.

Can we send a million? a billion? What about the people on Mars, can they reproduce?

IS THERE ANYONE ON ZEROPAID TODAY THAT CAN THINK


fuck


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[legendsofaranna]

Of course we can send millions. With nanotechnolgy, you can build space ships in a matter of seconds.

[Krell]

Now I know the answer to my question



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[mfgbypooter]

IS THERE ANYONE ON ZEROPAID TODAY THAT CAN THINKIt's pretty hard to think when I'm looking at your link.


fuck
.Mind reader.


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