Imagining the Internet 58
oDDmON oUT writes ""Imagining the Internet", an ambitious project patterned after the book "Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment" by Ithiel de Sola Pool, examines the potential future of what some deem the most revolutionary technological innovation of the 20th century, while providing a peek into it's history.
Nearly 1,300 technology pioneers participated by responding to a survey posing questions about the effects of the internet on a wide range of topics, as well as giving their comments and impressions. Those predictions are indexed into a searchable database, and there is a report available as a pdf file."
Imaging the Internet? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imaging the Internet? (Score:1)
It makes sense that it would be in PDF (Score:2, Interesting)
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http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF - SpeedUp.shtml [softpedia.com]
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PDF text (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I just know I'm going to regret this... (Score:1, Informative)
Imaging or Imagining (Score:1, Redundant)
In case of slashdotting, here is the image (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In case of slashdotting, here is the image (Score:2, Funny)
for those who dont get the subtitle... (Score:3, Informative)
innovation? (Score:2)
Which innovation is that?
'Net: Not most important, but most revolutionary (Score:1)
Mirrors courtesy of nyud.net (Score:4, Informative)
Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment of the Telephone [nyud.net]
The Predictions Database [nyud.net]
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its dieing (Score:1, Insightful)
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Who invented imaging? (Score:1)
Re:its dieing (Score:1)
Ing the Internet (Score:2)
Maps? Get you Internet maps (Score:1)
Re:boy, this is predictable (Score:1)
Historical, not predictive (Score:1)
They're using Lucene (Score:1, Offtopic)
Most powerful technology of the 20th century (Score:2, Insightful)
Here's my image of the internet! (Score:1)
Allready happens (Score:2)
My panel answer.. (Score:4, Funny)
Neighborhoods and Communities (Score:1)
Too Late (Score:3, Informative)
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Ominous (Score:2)
So, instead of posting their results in a form that is easily browsed, cross-linked, and generally made a part of the Internet, they use a format which has as its primary claim to fame the ability to be printed out.
Perhaps I am just grouchy because I am still working on my morning coffee, but it would seem to me the future of the Internet looks like