Imagining the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 20, 2005 @03:11AM 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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It makes sense that it would be in PDF by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-20 03:13 · Score: 2, Interesting

You have to wade through a lot of crap (PDF) to get to the good stuff (the contents).
1. Re:It makes sense that it would be in PDF by PaschalNee · 2005-02-20 07:22 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Actually Adobe Acrobat will load very fast if you disable a lot of the plugins that it normally loads. I've done this and have yet to come across a case where the lack of the plugin causes a problem so I can only assume most plugins are required only for more advanced features. Quick search on Google will list a load a programs that will do this for you e.g.
  
  http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF- SpeedUp.shtml