Thread: The Internet: 50 years from now

O_O Good question!

I'm sure the internet will become more commercialized... It will be like the whole "switching to digital tv" thing, where everything will have to be done online. XD I'm sure sites like this will still be around, but indeed a bit obscure, as new sites will pop up and push the little guys in the background, so to speak. MySpace and sites like that will be around still, but I have a feeling that they will be also be pushed aside for something new.

I suppose it also depends on the state of world... What's going on socially would prompt a change in internet "culture." The sites people view, and the things they search for will change.

Not to mention changes in technology - That would bring all sorts of new products, games, computers, etc. to the market.

I know I'd still be surfing the net... XD But who's to say... I'll be 74 by then... I might be too busy being awesome and sailing around the world to be surfing the net. LOL!

I feel like I AM one of those "old users" Dark is making mention of. I've been on the net for about 14 years. Back when if you're dial up modem was higher than like 28.8k, you were the sh*t in my neighborhood. I had a GeoCities page waaay before Yahoo! bought them out. Still have it to this day!

The internet has made some signifigant changes, but it pretty much still remains the same if you think about it. It's just a LOT faster. You can say it looks different/prettier (whatever), but that's thanks to an advance in technology as a whole.

I'd like to imagine that 50 years from now, the net would be a place you can virtually walk through. Kinda like in 'Futurama'.

A few years ago I didn't see wireless coming but it did. I don't know what is next.

It will probably be a whole lot more pervasive than it is now. (Unless there's a new world war in the next 50 years of course.)
Constant connection to the internet for all who can afford it. The possibilities of what you can do with it will have expanded quite a bit as well, advancing along with the advancements in technology in general.

I wonder when we'll get... human transportation through net... o.o that would be wicked

I think internet would control almost every aspect of daily life,...and the access to net would be easier and can be accessed through many means...

of course...cyber criminals would be a lot wider and more complicated... o.o more new problems rather than easy porn access would emerge...

It will probably be like Ghost in the Shell, where you can directly access the net through implants in your brain.

Maybe I'll be able to transfer my 70 year old brain into a hot cybernetic body by then.

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I lolz at that!!!

Let's see, I think there will be some changes, big and small, but I really can't see some BIG,HUGE changes like everyone has said so far. That's just me though. I can't really believe it all that much unless I see it(well with this I do).