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| The question is, as it has always been: now what? | Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet." Fifteen years ago, it was, "Build the Web." Five years
by brownbat 15y ago
| The question is, as it has always been: now what?
| Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet." Fifteen years ago, it was, "Build the Web." Five years ago, the answers were probably, "Build the social network"
In other words, when you read near future sci fi and think, "that's a cool piece of plausible tech that I really want right now!" what is it?
"We are prosthetic gods." That quote dates back farther than you might think. Printing, telecom, radio, the internet, the web, the social network, the smart phone... all of these take the sum of human knowledge/experience and inch it slightly closer to my brain.
The next step is to have it rest right against my temple while we debate whether or not to break out the scalpel.
Hate to jump on the bandwagon, but I'm ready for the Goggles. Google's commercials don't scrape the surface of what it could mean to have internet-enabled constant-on cameras on everyone's face, for better and worse. But that's the next space I want to explore.