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Imagining the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the badger-badger-badger-badger-mushroom-mushroom dept.

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."

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  1. Imaging the Internet? by Frightcrawler · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use Norton Ghost.

  2. In case of slashdotting, here is the image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    01001000100101001010010100100010100010100101010101 01010010101010201010100000011110010101001010101010 1010101010101010101...

    1. Re:In case of slashdotting, here is the image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      aaaaahhh i know i saw a 2 in there!

  3. Re:its dieing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's kind of sad the English language is dying.

  4. My panel answer.. by Deal-a-Neil · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..I imagine the Internets of being a place where politicians can invent parts of it, or the entire Intneret's invention alone can be credited to a single person or executive administration. That's my image of how I imagine the Internets.