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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I see tomorrow as being very, very different than what you have put forth. In the future, the need of the individual to be an individual and to "rise out of the crowd" will become more and more important and critical - thus, groups and micro-communities, societies will become more pronounced, not less. We see this in internet phenomena like MyPlace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. And groups like the Rock Band that offered their Album for download for whatever their fans wanted to pay (including free, and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the group right now) have shown that this type of contact with one another is becoming increasingly mainstream. Places like SecondLife, etc, Online Realities, will become more and more vital and real - I rather suspect that careers can and will be made soley online - that persons will become like present day superstars, movers, rockstars, etc, but wholly in the internet. I do beleive that information will become more global (as almost all humans will have some sort of access to the internet), but that governments will become increasingly more and more controlling of the access to that information, and constant surviellance of access to such; I think we are headed towards a confrontation between the private internet user and Big Government and control. How that turns out will be critical to how the Internet of the future looks. Things will become increasingly networked together. Houses, appliances, cars, everyday devices will have some sort of internet access to them, or at least BT, IrDa, 2.4 GHz, etc. I suspect that most will have some sort of device that can do "everything" to accomplish this - much like the iPhone has shown is possible, but much more complex, with a much more powerful CPU(s) and Memory galore. I think there is going to be a real bunch of nasty conflicts - China, India, Russia and the Western World (USA-Canada-Mexico, Europe) will be locked in ever harder competition to secure dwindling vital resources. How these super powers solve these problems will determine the shape of the future, economically and politically. I believe that Space will become fully Privatized - and that trips to Orbit will become commonplace and cheap. Somewhere down the line, enterprising Companies will put Space Hotels in Orbit, then the Moon, perhaps as far as Mars, who knows? I think that eyes will turn to the immediate Solar System for natural resources (astroid belt, perhaps?). [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/397/]WebShaman[/url] \| [i]The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles[/i] Loading...
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