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As long as I'm on a Singularity kick, you're all gonna wanna stop what you're doing an read Vernor Vinge's 2007 novel Rainbows End.  (Setting is the pre-singularity, in Vinge's technological timeline, perhaps as early as 10-20 years from now.)

I skipped the whole social networking part of Web 2.0, because I don't see any value-add to living in a fishbowl.  I'd make the privacy tradeoff in a heartbeat if I can get augmented reality to make that fishbowl interesting.

iPads with a 25-inch screen.

browsing the internet using your big screen television.

My thing!
8)

Well despite the big "Like" drive being implimented by Facebook, I'm already reading FB's topple in the wind (circa early 2006). I say this because whenever I see an address by a famous person, group, etc being advertised, Twitter is always mentioned and Facebook increasingly less.


Zuck and Facebook have been in the news quite a bit lately.  

Maybe Zuckerberg's finally overplayed his hand; the past few weeks have seen even non-geeks learning about what he really thought about his users right from day one.

Maybe Facebook's vision of radical transparency falls flat on its face when people realize that The Friend of My Friend Is Not My Mother.

It's none of Facebook's business who your friends are.  It's none of Facebook's business what you're reading.  

The Next Big Thing is a replacement for centralized social networking on proprietary closed systems.  The model itself is flawed: no centralized provider of social networking can be trustworthy, because the resources required for centralization demand commercialization and monetization.  The only way to make enough money to run the servers is to sell the users' privacy out to the highest bidder.  

The next big thing?  The next big thing is when we collectively decide to let Facebook wither on the vine with the centralized giants of the past, like Livejournal and Myspace.  It's time for secure, distributed, peer-to-peer social networking, where the encrypted data resides on machines that you and your friends already own.

A few thousand P2P computers eviscerated RIAA's business model in six years.  Let's see if a few million P2P computers can't do the same to Zuckerberg's business model in six months.  Join the Diaspora. 

listening to music via internet,clock radios will become a thing of the past.

listening to music via internet,clock radios will become a thing of the past.
It is already here!

It is already here!


best thing that ever happened to radio.

3-D  tv/phone ALA "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You are my only hope."



Cat

The Orgasmatron.  :o :o :o

Hi-tech toilets.

The Orgasmatron.  :o :o :o



Sleeper or Barberella? I can't remember which movie had that in.




Cat

Sleeper or Barberella? I can't remember which movie had that in.




Cat


Sleeper!

;)

The next big thing?  The next big thing is when we collectively decide to let Facebook wither on the vine with the centralized giants of the past, like Livejournal and Myspace.  It's time for secure, distributed, peer-to-peer social networking, where the encrypted data resides on machines that you and your friends already own.

Maybe the next generation's rebels will be bold and have peer-to-peer social networking by meeting in the woods around a fire and talking to each other in a whisper.  No machines needed.  (just a fantasy of mine)

The Orgasmatron.  :o :o :o


What will that do?  ???

Hi-tech toilets.


A talking flusher. ;D

Sleeper!

;)



Thanks. I knew it was one or the other.



Cat

Actually, I'm thinking holographic virtual reality games.

Actually, I'm thinking holographic virtual reality games.

Yeah, that would be cool.
I'm hoping virtual reality will become a big thing in the next years.

Yeah, that would be cool.
I'm hoping virtual reality will become a big thing in the next years.


Me Too,I'm hoping that happens.

Yeah, that would be cool.
I'm hoping virtual reality will become a big thing in the next years.


I'm not really hoping for it, but I expect it.

moving sidewalks.

Fembots.  :o :o :o

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fembots_2_APIMOM.jpg

Thanks. I knew it was one or the other.



Speak of...if people 30 years ago heard you would be able to download unlimited amounts of pr0n on your home computer, they'd say, "Then men would never leave the house!"

Been known to happen!
:o

Speak of...if people 30 years ago heard you would be able to download unlimited amounts of pr0n on your home computer, they'd say, "Then men would never leave the house!"

Been known to happen!
:o



30 years ago,You had to buy Playboy at the corner candy store.Then you could hide the magazine when buying a pack of gum.

Fembots.  :o :o :o

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fembots_2_APIMOM.jpg



What would you do with a fembot? ???

What would you do with a fembot? ???


Anything she told you to do!  ;D

Anything she told you to do!   ;D


I can do things to her or she can do things to me?  ???

I can do things to her or she can do things to me?  ???


I don't know - I'm afraid to answer this line of questioning anymore, haha.

I don't know - I'm afraid to answer this line of questioning anymore, haha.


It's best that you didn't.  ;)

What would you do with a fembot? ???


What WOULDN'T you do to a fembot? ???

What WOULDN'T you do to a fembot? ???


have sex?

have sex?


Me neither..if anybody was watching!
8)

Me neither..if anybody was watching!
8)


Why would you want to have robot sex?

Why would you want to have robot sex?


Some people see tings as they are and ask "Why"?

I ask "Why not?"    ;)

Maybe the next generation's rebels will be bold and have peer-to-peer social networking by meeting in the woods around a fire and talking to each other in a whisper.  No machines needed.  (just a fantasy of mine)


Freedom of the machines belongs to those who own the machines.

Or we could do it the hard way.  Hey, Fallout: New Vegas was fun, too!

Why would you want to have robot sex?
Could it work out cheaper?

Some people see tings as they are and ask "Why"?

I ask "Why not?"    ;)


you can always push her buttons. ;D

Could it work out cheaper?


depends on how much the parts are.

Some people see tings as they are and ask "Why"?

I ask "Why not?"    ;)


If she breaks in the middle of the act, it could mean an awkward trip to the emergency room!
:-[

If she breaks in the middle of the act, it could mean an awkward trip to the emergency room!
:-[


Well first you'd have to fix her first,You know where to start?  ;D ;)

Well first you'd have to fix her first,You know where to start?  ;D ;)


I'm mechanically inclined.  I screw up everything.

When I first read the title I was tired and I thought the thread read 'My Big Thing'.  ;D

I'm mechanically inclined.  I screw up everything.


I don't. ;)

When I first read the title I was tired and I thought the thread read 'My Big Thing'.  ;D


;D  Oy vey!

When are we going to have flying cars that you don't have to drive in, transporters, and trips to Uranus?

Are Personal Jet Packs still in the offering as for the next big thing?

When are we going to have flying cars that you don't have to drive in, transporters, and trips to Uranus?


That I'd love to see.

When are we going to eat food via spacetubes like astronauts do?

Are Personal Jet Packs still in the offering as for the next big thing?


Yes.  The next generation of smartphones will also have virtual jet pack technology built in.  ;D

Yes.  The next generation of smartphones will also have virtual jet pack technology built in.  ;D


Get yourself a straw and a line, and there's your virtual jet pack!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/09/smhair2.gif

No, no, kids, Maxwell's only joking.  Don't do that!

Yes.  The next generation of smartphones will also have virtual jet pack technology built in.  ;D


like flying in the sky?

like flying in the sky?


Yes.  And while you are flying in the sky, since it is a smartphone too, you'll be able to call all your friends to look up and see you, and you'll also be able to tweet pics from flight.  8)

Yes.  And while you are flying in the sky, since it is a smartphone too, you'll be able to call all your friends to look up and see you, and you'll also be able to tweet pics from flight.   8)



A new name for it TweetFlight,means you can get a skyview of people,I think that's what GoogleMaps are for.

A new name for it TweetFlight,means you can get a skyview of people,I think that's what GoogleMaps are for.


The future is gonna rock.  8)

Get yourself a straw and a line, and there's your virtual jet pack!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/09/smhair2.gif

No, no, kids, Maxwell's only joking.  Don't do that!



;D ;D

The future is gonna rock.   8)


I should mention that to the makers of blackberries and cell phones,tell them about Tweetflight.

I've heard about Diaspora a while ago and was intrigued. However at the time it seemed to still be in development. I clicked the link to see what it had turned into and go sorta "rickrolled". Is this on purpose or was the link taken over, and or a sign that the project failed?


Diaspora is still sorta-alive, but the development community got sorta-sidetracked.  My initial optimism on Diaspora was far too early.

The most-credible Facebook-killer is Google+, and invites should be showing up in your inboxes within the next few weeks/months.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/googleplus.png

On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch.  On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch.

Whether it be with FZuckerberg or the Google, your data will be assimilated.  In defense of the Goog, they're a hell of a lot less evil about this than Zuckerberg, and seem to be genuinely trying to do what Failbook was supposed to do, namely find a way to monetize social media without being so damn creepy about it.  

Insofar as Zuckerberg refuses to acknowledge the reality that people compartmentalize their lives into "things they share with family", "things they share with people they boink", "things they share with friends from high school/college", "things they share with co-workers", and "things they share with potential future employers", Google+ has a shot at it.

Green jobs, carbon taxes, internet 2, no harddrive, everything save via cloud, a rennianse of creativity due to the terrible ecomony. The North American Union....think i'm bull sheeshting, you watch....

This makes as much sense to me as an episode of Twn Peaks.

Green jobs, carbon taxes, internet 2, no harddrive, everything save via cloud, a rennianse of creativity due to the terrible ecomony. The North American Union....think i'm bull sheeshting, you watch....
Okay Glenn Beck