What do you think of it?
Only one mail site: mail.fbi.gov
Only one social networking site: my.fbi.gov
Only one discussion site: forum.fbi.gov
>>3
I'm imagining this is all overweight women dressed like polygamist mormons. It's what FBI agents (especially the female ones) get off on. They're the worst perverts imaginable.
>>4
Well... It's true there will more of a "pagan" influence on the Internet. Those people are incredibly active networking.
Human consciousness will eventually become completely assimilated into the internet. We will no longer need our bodies; our souls will roam the virtual world, connected to everybody and everywhere.
It will be the next (and final?) step of human's evolution.
>>6
Surely, after practicing virtual civilization we will find some use, if not a necessary need for our bodies, yet with our minds sharped by the internet, we will go into the physical world to exercise, reproduce, eat, socialize, perform bodily functions, and thusly move and use the body, lightly, safely, more aware of its importance, our memory card of flesh.
>>6
I feel as if it will be the opposite- The internet will eventually become completely assimilated into the real world- especially since the internet is becoming more and more social as time goes on. Rather than retreating into virtual oblivion (which will no doubt be as available in the future as it is now) I think the internet will become an overlaid virtual map that interacts with our own senses. Imagine tags hovering in 3d text around objects in the real world, browsers popping up wherever you want them, ideas and memories being as shareable as links, graphical data as searchable as text. You could find out who exactly those random people are in all of your travel photos. People could log and blog their entire lives if they so chose- every thought and feeling.
If neural interfaces are as inevitable as some people claim, and if humans are as similar as I would like to believe, it makes more sense to the see this applied practically in the external world, rather than have everyone hooked up to machines that feed them. The one problem I have with some predictions of the singularity is the loss of individualism- some expectations are that we will all blur seamlessly together into some great brain where we are just cells. I think ultimately it will continue along the same track- with the gulf between creativity and the application of that creativity lessening with each year. If people will be able to create simply by thinking will that make all of us artists? Pardon the Peace/Love/Happytime Future, but who would want to retreat into complete virtuality if said virtuality is available all of the time, outside. Maybe the Star Wars Kid.
-1. net will be draped over reality through handhelds, glasses, contacts, cyberbrains? GPS, tablets that provide info on the surrounding worlds, this kind of immersion already exists. glasses and contacts exist now at a high price. the net also facilitates stronger connections within a loosely connected local network (boy with girl, neighbor with community, tenets with renters, ebay).
2. near this same time you have the rise in digital life. bbs, video games, social websites, forums, 'second life' type games, these already exist and are growing in efficiency and complexity. they are taking up more and more time of the average citizen.
3. i'm guessing the military will be the first makers of flexible, on the spot utility from the internet, anywhere. see targets through hills with an overhead eye, instant communication to all members of an operation, really pioneers in heads up display technology.
4. then eventually you've got direct plugging in. early adopters: porn industry, government institutions for training purposes (school? hospitals, etc), outcast children with low physical prospects (almost as /b/ served earlier), i also expect it to be an addon to forums growing in popularity. forums have their merits, but maybe seeing the face (even if they are recorded reactions) might be too tempting.
-i wouldn't be suprised if we split the net in two, one public one private (anon). i could see all the big corps involved with the internet coming together and pushing a public net, as this would make security much easier (i'm assuming), and thus make all their businesses much more profitable. if they all came together for their own self-interest it'd be pretty hard for the public to say no eh? the more i think of it the more it seems like a libertarian kind of thing, corps establishing their own grounds realizing government ineptness, and where easier, safer, and least controversial a place to do this than the internet? could this be a place where corporations 'make a stand' and deny government involvement, if the gov does indeed ask?
eventually i think the pubnet tapers off as all its services are offered on the encrypted net more efficiently and free, as technology and software improves.
-the more minds hooked up to the net the more important physical security will be. i don't think security will grow in proportion to its rising value. i think something could happen where people die, like hospitals airplanes cars ambulances trains, and i fear the government might exploit that to ensure their power. if i was in a current position of power, that sounds like something i would do.. before the net is too powerful and capable of defending itself. some e-security guru said the e-patriot act has already been written, ready to go. just waiting on that attack.
>>9
"..see targets through hills with an overhead eye..."
Makes me wonder how long it will take for a program such as Google Earth to become LIVE and continuously updated through webcams and satellites.
scary and wonderful at the same time, imagine if Street View was "constantly refreshing".
I agree that the military applications will be first.
Net culture is going to be stream lined and free movement on the internet is going to go underground, and' we'll all get to feel like hackers. yay
Google GRID
Noosphere will be populated by /b/tards, porn, tripfags and spammers. General population ("The Cool YouTube, Facebook and MySpace Guys") will be adopting Web 3.0 while vast majority of users don't care and the lesser majority will flame it to hell. Chinese users will be banned from using the noosphere (due to its uncivilized nature) by being blocked by The Great Firewall of China.
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