Imagining the Internet

A Selection of Compelling Contributions

"Irrelevent, underused, the mind is the next network." - Val

"The internet and the information age will restructure our society fundamentally." - Rick Fleck

"The internet will transport us to any location we'd like, regardless of our geographical location." - Deb

"Human consciousness will be encoded. Space travel is as simple as beaming out copies of your consciousness. Cloning won't be a problem; copying your brain will." - Stuart

"The capabilities of the internet will allow for experiences so close to real life that people will forget to live." - Raquel

"A smaller world makes for a cheap labor market." - Eric Hamilton

"More internet use will lead to low socialization and a diminishment of society." - Robert Taylor

"With increased visibility and communication, the corrupt will no longer be able to hide or enjoy their ill-gotten wealth." - Ashfaq Tunio

"Humans will evolve into a species with embedded devices that allow us to communicate." - Dan Geile

"Metaphysical implications of online communications will force our American community to address the fault lines in our culture." - Lyandra

"We will have the technology to implant the internet directly into our brains. This opens up new terrifying realities for hacking." - Jamie Boyd

"There will be a lack of original thought as people co-opt ideas of others." - PMD

"Intelligent programs will roam the internet, like a life form in its own environment." - Jeffrey Baker

"The successful implantation of some sort of "nano-bio-whatchamacallit" might herald in [a] new era." - Nicholas Compton

"We must evolve without becoming the Borg!" - Bob Gawecki

"The internet will extrapolate … dimensions…??We will be able to get in touch with our relatives, our friends and other people who had passed away." - Marco Veado

"It will forge entirely new types of thinkers, whose kaleidoscopic manipulation of digital media will culminate in an explosive proliferation of innovative discoveries." - Kim Vonder Haar

Voices of the people

Your Predictions Database
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Your Submissions

Redistribution of wealth
With the Internet reaching every corner of the globe, the MTVing of all societies will divide generations and create a massive redistribution of wealth from industrial to third-world nations. 11/10/2004

Home Connectivity
Home appliances and the internet connected together. 11/10/2004

Unlimited Educational Opportunities
Everyone can be home-schooled, K1 through college, economically online. 11/10/2004

Interface
Even the trees will whisper in networks of information with very small voices. 11/10/2004

If the Shoe Fits, It Better be USB
The future: connected, integrated, and unavoidable. 11/10/2004

Ivy League in China?
Getting an Ivy League diploma from the other side of the planet. 11/10/2004

The Internet: Every Aspect of Our Lives
Just about anything you can think of is related to the internet in some way. 11/10/2004

Personal Communication
Everyone will be linked without the use of mobile devices you have carry around 11/10/2004

How far will we go to get the fastest upload?
One day we will be complete dependent on "the network."
11/10/2004

Paradise Lost and Found
With freedom, the Internet will shortly allow all sentient life on Earth to experience wealth, power, knowledge, pleasure, joy and ease unimaginable today; without freedom, the Internet will promote tyranny, repression and slavery, leading to the end of humanity and probably all life on Earth. 11/10/2004

Net brings people together in common purpose
The internet will help people build international relationships. 11/10/2004

Intelligent searching
A user will be able to search with more relevance and dig deeper into the unseen depths of the "internet." 11/10/2004

Virtual Democracy
Instant communication and a virtual democracy 11/10/2004

Total Net Identity
Everything online 11/10/2004

Less show, more go
Simpler devcies used to collect communicate and distribute information. 11/10/2004

Say What
Eventually the internet will become the network that ties all applications, appliances, equipment, and information together. 11/10/2004

Everything Everywhere
Download ANYTHING from anywhere, at anytime, in moments with your phone, pda or laptop. 11/10/2004

smaller economic world
The net will draw us closer and closer to each other "economically." It's rather simple. 11/10/2004

The Internet is mankind's first attempt at creating a non-carbon based lifeform
The Internet, still in its infancy, will grow up to become a monster that is constantly feeding and processing information. Eventually, it will wake up and start making decisions for itself. 11/10/2004

An Empowered People
The world's communities will be more and more empowered with easily accessible knowledge, which will affect purchasing decisions. 11/10/2004

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