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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. its dieing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its kind of sad but if buisness dosnt stop trying to take over the internet it will be dead I think. With all the adware ect. on line I know a lot of people that don't even use it anymore.

  2. boy, this is predictable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    a bunch of Internet experts say the Internet is great.

    Worst. story. ever.

    In other news, firement declare great Chicago Fire to be worst disaster of all time and cooking experts declare cooking to be the greatest accomplishment of all time.

  3. Most powerful technology of the 20th century by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yet asshats everywhere still can't tell the difference between ITS and IT'S.