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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. PDF text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The PDF in HTML form, courtesy Google's file converter

  2. for those who dont get the subtitle... by doormat · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/21/

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    The Doormat

    If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
  3. Mirrors courtesy of nyud.net by gonffen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ithiel de Sola Pool's Profile
    Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment of the Telephone
    The Predictions Database
    The .pdf file

  4. Re:I just know I'm going to regret this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It refers to this.

  5. Too Late by Wes+Janson · · Score: 2, Informative

    William Gibson already thought of that idea long ago, in his Sprawl trilogy. I believe it was in Mona Lisa Overdrive, that one of the characters spends all of his time locked up in an abandoned building, trying to find the "shape" of the matrix (aka internet).