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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. It makes sense that it would be in PDF by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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

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

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

  4. 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!

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

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

    --
    The Doormat

    If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
  6. 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

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

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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).