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#1 Old 22nd Dec 2012 at 5:38 AM
Default Do You Think The Internet Will Be Here in 100 Years?
I wonder if we will still have the internet in 100 years. The internet seems to me to be as innovative as the automobile in the way it connects people to the world, so my guess is yes. If so, will this site be here do you think? What if they keep releasing sims games on until 100 years from now (I'm sure they won't call it The Sims 50 or whatever) but I'm sure there will be some form of life simulation game. It would make sense because the human race has always wanted to duplicate the world around them (all the way back to cave drawings) I wonder what the future of the internet will be.
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#2 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 2:50 AM
I will attempt to create some zeerust here. Access to the internet will be freed from hardware restrictions, because more micro devices and replacements for phones and PCs join the market. Appearance of the web will become indistinguishable on these devices. In the future, people will walk around aimplessly, talking into thin air, with no apparent hardware near them. Users will cycle through boom and bust, paying record amounts each month for customizing features and then rejecting social media and taking advantage of free offers. Facebook and Google+ are replaced by new competitors, which are raplidly replaced by other competitors. The IPhone 8 will not be known as such, as significant rebranding and a new style turn it into a new product. While some network venues will allow us to share our entire lives to anyone, true privacy and legal protection will be achieved through technical and legal advances. The first cluster of dementia, caused by software directed at the human brain, appear in California.
Theorist
#3 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 3:36 AM
I don't want the Internet. I want instant information radioed directly into my brain as I drive around in my flying car on Mars.
Field Researcher
#4 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 4:42 AM
maybe something better then the internet well take it's place in a 100 years, after all the telegraph was the first way of communicating by wire in the early 1800's
Test Subject
#5 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 5:06 AM
i sure hope so.
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#6 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 7:07 AM
They'll beam it directly into your brain, man. Fer sure.
Instructor
#7 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 1:16 PM
Nope, and ironically enough, neither will we, so I guess we don't have to really worry about it.
Instructor
#8 Old 23rd Dec 2012 at 3:52 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Mistermook
I don't want the Internet. I want instant information radioed directly into my brain as I drive around in my flying car on Mars.


"directly into the brain" coupled with a computer virus; that's why I predicted computer-generated dementia.. but I want to see this too. Please turn off all ad-blockers, as they pay for the radio station.
Field Researcher
#9 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 12:33 AM
I don't want the internet beamed into my brain. Its messed up as it is - soaking it with accidental porn, conspiracy theories and youtube will not improve the situation.
I'm sure the interent will still be around in 100 years, but I wonder if it will be censored, and how heavily. I don't think there will tv's, pc's, laptops as such, it will all be amalgamated into one object, which I kind of want now, because I bet its shiny.
I just wish they would hurry up and invent the air highway and flying transport. I think all heavy transport should be allocated to air highway, as roads are poorly equiped to handle trucks in some situations and there's a lot of accidents between cars/trucks. Also, air highways will cut down the time for a lot of these drivers. I've thought a lot about this since watching an episode of 'Dangerous Drives' a few weeks ago. :-)
Field Researcher
#10 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 2:55 AM
You compared the internet to automobiles, so maybe like cars an improved version of the internet will be here in 100 years. But in general, I feel that like the car, the internet has become too big a part of our lives to fully disappear.
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#11 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 9:58 PM
I think that it will grow and change, just like everything else. We will barely be able to distinguish it from its fledgling ways now. It'll be a lot sleeker, streamlined, cleaner, etc, and it will be planned, just like roads are today.


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#12 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 10:47 PM
The web is already a lot sleeker, streamlined, and cleaner than its early days. Or than the onion sites, for that matter. The fact that it's innovative doesn't mean that it'll change. Mason jars haven't changed in design since they were introduced because they couldn't get better from being changed.

It's really hard to think of how the internet can get better than what it already is now; most of the limitations are based on the computers used to access it, not the internet itself.

As for getting it beamed/wired directly into my brain? No. I've seen too many sci-fi/fantasy plots that revolve around this sort of thing. Besides, I once had so many tabs up that I literally crashed my computer. TVTropes would be the leading cause of comas.
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#13 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 11:10 PM
I think we can't predict the technology of 100 years from now any more than someone living in 1912 could have predicted computers, the Internet, and our surprising lack of atomic-powered flying cars. Probably less, since the rate of technological advancement keeps getting faster.
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#14 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 11:22 PM
It will still be around in some form. Look at TV. It started back in the 1930s, and is still around as more or less the same basic concept as it was first made. A box with moving pictures and sound. Sure, today it's got color and six thousand channels and HD and all that, but it's still the same basic concept as it's always been. The internet will be more or less the same. Yeah it will probably go through an evolution of adding new bells and whistles, but the core concept is too perfect for it to go away any time soon. The only thing that will change is the content, just like with TV. Or books.
Test Subject
#15 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 6:12 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Ladyhawke976
Nope, and ironically enough, neither will we, so I guess we don't have to really worry about it.


You cant be so sure of that...
Test Subject
#16 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 6:15 AM
And 100 years isnt that long. Its about a generation or two. So yes. We most likely would.
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#17 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 5:51 PM
A "generation" is generally accepted as 20-25 years, not 50-100. Of course, with people having children later and later, it may eventually get there.
Theorist
#18 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 7:09 PM
Quote: Originally posted by CmarNYC
I think we can't predict the technology of 100 years from now any more than someone living in 1912 could have predicted computers, the Internet, and our surprising lack of atomic-powered flying cars. Probably less, since the rate of technological advancement keeps getting faster.

Eh, science fiction writers can and did predict an awful lot of the advances of the last hundred years.
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#19 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 7:50 PM
They also predicted a lot of things that never happened.
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#20 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 10:42 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Mistermook
Eh, science fiction writers can and did predict an awful lot of the advances of the last hundred years.


How many were writing 100 years ago?

For the most part, what science fiction (and other) writers have successfully predicted is extensions and development of current technologies. For example, I found an article from 1900 with a surprising set of predictions, many of which are more or less true, but they're pretty much all assuming the further development of technologies known at the time like electricity, cars, planes, the telephone, etc. (Link: http://io9.com/5873017/these-predic...eerily-accurate)

We can certainly predict that computers and the internet will be around in 100 years and that they'll be much more advanced than now, but what I'm saying is that there will almost certainly be new technologies that we can't foresee, any more than any of those 'learned minds' could have foreseen the Internet.

And yeah, they got a lot wrong, too.
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#21 Old 28th Dec 2012 at 11:57 PM
Quote: Originally posted by CmarNYC
For the most part, what science fiction (and other) writers have successfully predicted is extensions and development of current technologies. For example, I found an article from 1900 with a surprising set of predictions, many of which are more or less true, but they're pretty much all assuming the further development of technologies known at the time like electricity, cars, planes, the telephone, etc. (Link: http://io9.com/5873017/these-predic...eerily-accurate)

We can certainly predict that computers and the internet will be around in 100 years and that they'll be much more advanced than now, but what I'm saying is that there will almost certainly be new technologies that we can't foresee, any more than any of those 'learned minds' could have foreseen the Internet.

In a similar vein, I found this interesting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandst...ago?INTCMP=SRCH

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#22 Old 29th Dec 2012 at 1:25 AM
Quote: Originally posted by RoboArtist
You cant be so sure of that...


True, I guess.

They will develop the anti-aging drug the day after I die, because that is the way my life works.

On a more serious note (kinda). In a hundred years I think the internet will be a looked upon as a fad and the way we recieve information will be completely different because your standard computers will be obsolete. If you look at progression, things change very quickly.

Twenty plus years ago I would have told you the Super Mario Bros. was the greatest achievement ever! Look at those graphics! The little man can move and break bricks with his head! Now, the games are like playing movies themselves.

There was a book - a series actually - by William Shatner called Tekwar. In it people were addicted to a digital drug that altered reality and people wasted away because they were essentially in a world of their making and they would rather die in it then come off of it.

In a hundred years they will find a way to make your brain run like a computer used to and download information instantaneously. Drugs will enhance this process and filter the information into a usable form and allow for instant retrieval at anytime. Sadly, this method will only be available to the filthy rich and for politicians that want to look intelligent (Not that it will really help considering politician/intelligence is a bit of a oxymoron).

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#23 Old 4th Jan 2013 at 6:39 AM
most defiantly..it will be streamed to us in a different style..but yes.

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#24 Old 5th Jan 2013 at 6:42 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Sims99Fanatic
I wonder if we will still have the internet in 100 years. The internet seems to me to be as innovative as the automobile in the way it connects people to the world, so my guess is yes. If so, will this site be here do you think? What if they keep releasing sims games on until 100 years from now (I'm sure they won't call it The Sims 50 or whatever) but I'm sure there will be some form of life simulation game. It would make sense because the human race has always wanted to duplicate the world around them (all the way back to cave drawings) I wonder what the future of the internet will be.


Yes but not as we know it. I imagine people having implants in their brains so that they can instantly access information or something.

I don't get why so many Simmers hate Marsha Bruenig. She actually grows up to be quite pretty if you allow her to.
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#25 Old 5th Jan 2013 at 6:46 AM
The internet and computers in the future would probably be something like an EyePhone from futurama. I would love one of those

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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