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The World Wide Web is a fascinating place. At first, it was a way of enabling people communicate remotely in the event of war, then when businesses and colleges got involved, it exploded into the huge database of information that it has become today.
And then it evolved. The Internet is still mainly a source of information, if you want to know anything it's out there, you just have to search for it intelligently. But more and more it's becoming a source of entertainment as multi-media devices connected to it continue to evolve in their own right.
The only thing that's really changed in the last 40 or 50 years is the amount of information and the way this information is presented to you. In the future, longterm, everything will be presented in multimedia format, like watching a TV, except you'll have access to unlimited channels.
But there's another much more interesting possibility. The internet itself could become more 'intelligent'. At present, you can bookmark your favourite websites, have interactive content on your desktop so you can keep tabs on what's happening in your own particular district of the internet and so on, but how about if the internet started doing this for you instead?
Give the internet a brain, and it could do the following:
Search through every file on your computer to see how you write, who you chat to, what sites you visit, what games you play, where you're from, what you search for, analyse your programs that you've installed.
From this information the brain could build up a pretty accurate picture of what kind of person you are and what kind of things you like.
Then your internet would work like this:
Startup
Say "Hello"
Get the following response:
"Hi FM, I noticed you were writing an essay last night, I've found some neat articles on similar subjects you might want to browse through and saved them to your work file. I corrected a few typos.
Charlie was online earlier, I told him you weren't available right now but would get back to him asap. He asked me to remind you to send him the CD-RW you were discussing. I offered to send him the files directly but he declined.
And you know you were searching for Tomb Raider in Google? I found an update on Core Design's website posted yesterday, so I've bookmarked it for you.
There's been a recall on the WebCam Go Plus Series 223 model, I noticed from your bank statement that you'd bought one last month and have downloaded a printable return form for you. I've taken the liberty of preordering a free of charge replacement in the meantime.
There was a new patch released for that MMORPG that you've subscribed to, I've downloaded and installed it for you, so it's ready to go. There are no new updates in the game at this time, but you might find the threads on the game forum that I've bookmarked for you interesting reading.
I have 36 e-mails for you, only 2 are of real interest so I've saved those for you.
Oh, and by the way, you've won another GAD. I've claimed Splinter Cell for you as I know it's right up your street, should be with you in 3 or 4 days.
So, where do you want me to go today?"
This isn't that farfetched if you analyse it. A 'brain' is simply a highly sophisticated computer, and we already have electronic computers. We just need an amalgamation of highly sophisticated expert programs and an overall guiding program to enable all of us to have this kind of 'personal internet'.
Developments in voice activation technology, speech recognition and intelligent document interpretation just need to progress a little further and voila, this particular future of the internet will be upon us. Most of this kind of technology is already with us, just separated into different programs that you have to access to enable it, so things take time, and sometimes you want someone else to do the legwork for you.
To overcome the 'Big Brother' objections, Big Brother is already here. Everything you do on the internet can already be tracked, traced, monitored, analysed etc., so if you object to Big Brother the only way around it is not to connect to the internet in the first place.
This is just one of the many ways in which the internet could develop in the future. At present it's becoming an ever more vast monolith of PC's, servers and networks all connected together but with no overall 'connectivity'. There's billions of pages of information out there; it just needs sifting through for the relevant stuff, relevant to you and me that is, and one human lifetime just isn't enough to find all the great nuggets that may be of interest to us.
Then again, the future of the internet could just be more porn delivered to your browser in more interesting ways.
And then it evolved. The Internet is still mainly a source of information, if you want to know anything it's out there, you just have to search for it intelligently. But more and more it's becoming a source of entertainment as multi-media devices connected to it continue to evolve in their own right.
The only thing that's really changed in the last 40 or 50 years is the amount of information and the way this information is presented to you. In the future, longterm, everything will be presented in multimedia format, like watching a TV, except you'll have access to unlimited channels.
But there's another much more interesting possibility. The internet itself could become more 'intelligent'. At present, you can bookmark your favourite websites, have interactive content on your desktop so you can keep tabs on what's happening in your own particular district of the internet and so on, but how about if the internet started doing this for you instead?
Give the internet a brain, and it could do the following:
Search through every file on your computer to see how you write, who you chat to, what sites you visit, what games you play, where you're from, what you search for, analyse your programs that you've installed.
From this information the brain could build up a pretty accurate picture of what kind of person you are and what kind of things you like.
Then your internet would work like this:
Startup
Say "Hello"
Get the following response:
"Hi FM, I noticed you were writing an essay last night, I've found some neat articles on similar subjects you might want to browse through and saved them to your work file. I corrected a few typos.
Charlie was online earlier, I told him you weren't available right now but would get back to him asap. He asked me to remind you to send him the CD-RW you were discussing. I offered to send him the files directly but he declined.
And you know you were searching for Tomb Raider in Google? I found an update on Core Design's website posted yesterday, so I've bookmarked it for you.
There's been a recall on the WebCam Go Plus Series 223 model, I noticed from your bank statement that you'd bought one last month and have downloaded a printable return form for you. I've taken the liberty of preordering a free of charge replacement in the meantime.
There was a new patch released for that MMORPG that you've subscribed to, I've downloaded and installed it for you, so it's ready to go. There are no new updates in the game at this time, but you might find the threads on the game forum that I've bookmarked for you interesting reading.
I have 36 e-mails for you, only 2 are of real interest so I've saved those for you.
Oh, and by the way, you've won another GAD. I've claimed Splinter Cell for you as I know it's right up your street, should be with you in 3 or 4 days.
So, where do you want me to go today?"
This isn't that farfetched if you analyse it. A 'brain' is simply a highly sophisticated computer, and we already have electronic computers. We just need an amalgamation of highly sophisticated expert programs and an overall guiding program to enable all of us to have this kind of 'personal internet'.
Developments in voice activation technology, speech recognition and intelligent document interpretation just need to progress a little further and voila, this particular future of the internet will be upon us. Most of this kind of technology is already with us, just separated into different programs that you have to access to enable it, so things take time, and sometimes you want someone else to do the legwork for you.
To overcome the 'Big Brother' objections, Big Brother is already here. Everything you do on the internet can already be tracked, traced, monitored, analysed etc., so if you object to Big Brother the only way around it is not to connect to the internet in the first place.
This is just one of the many ways in which the internet could develop in the future. At present it's becoming an ever more vast monolith of PC's, servers and networks all connected together but with no overall 'connectivity'. There's billions of pages of information out there; it just needs sifting through for the relevant stuff, relevant to you and me that is, and one human lifetime just isn't enough to find all the great nuggets that may be of interest to us.
Then again, the future of the internet could just be more porn delivered to your browser in more interesting ways.
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P@st@ wrote:
> Hmmmm,
>
> Not going to happen that quick, being as expert systems and AI can't
> understand simple nursery rhymes...
The closest we got was that Hello, Pikachu game and that never made it here... what's so weird about our language... I mean there are hundreds of chinese dialects yet they got a game... I wouldn't have like the game but they said we... yes us had too many dialects... oh the cheek of it!
> Hmmmm,
>
> Not going to happen that quick, being as expert systems and AI can't
> understand simple nursery rhymes...
The closest we got was that Hello, Pikachu game and that never made it here... what's so weird about our language... I mean there are hundreds of chinese dialects yet they got a game... I wouldn't have like the game but they said we... yes us had too many dialects... oh the cheek of it!
Did you ever hear of the Ti-Vo? That was a peice of kit that connected to your TV and then records programs you select onto it's hard-drive but one it gets to know what sort of programmes you like to watch it will record them for you, or if you watch a certain program every week it'll pick up on this and automatically record it for you in case you miss it!!
Not so far fetched then maybe!?!?!?
Not so far fetched then maybe!?!?!?
Venom's post made me laugh
Another excuse to become more lazy and stupid
Another excuse to become more lazy and stupid
"Good morning Mr Glitter. The police have been informed and are on their way."
Hmmmm,
Not going to happen that quick, being as expert systems and AI can't understand simple nursery rhymes...
Not going to happen that quick, being as expert systems and AI can't understand simple nursery rhymes...
mmmm... talking computers...
write me an essay of A* quality by Monday about the Russian revolution...
write me an essay of A* quality by Monday about the Russian revolution...
"Hello Dave. What are you doing?...I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave....I'm sorry Dave, it won't happen again....Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do..Iiii'm haaaalf craazzzzyyy..."
Let that be a warning to your sentient computer intelligence.
Let that be a warning to your sentient computer intelligence.
Thing is, there'd be so many 'teething troubles' to get past before we ever reached that level.
"Your neighbour emailed you about his Les Paul guitar he lent you. I took the liberty of looking through your internet history and noticed a number of recent visits to guitarrepairs.com"
"From this I surmised that the guitar had become damaged, so I replied to him telling him so, but not to worry because you were kindly doing your utmost to repair it before he even noticed."
"I also noticed some amusing cartoons in your inbox. I've forwarded these to your boss in the hope that showing him your great sense of humour will raise his opinion of you. There was also some low-quality porn mail in your inbox, so I took the liberty of sumbitting your credit card information to a much higher quality service. I used your work email address, as you appear to use this most frequently to collect mail."
"I also notice you were deleting some documents from the MyDocuments folder yesterday. It appears you didn't have time to finish this activity though, so I have deleted the remaining documents for you."
"Your neighbour emailed you about his Les Paul guitar he lent you. I took the liberty of looking through your internet history and noticed a number of recent visits to guitarrepairs.com"
"From this I surmised that the guitar had become damaged, so I replied to him telling him so, but not to worry because you were kindly doing your utmost to repair it before he even noticed."
"I also noticed some amusing cartoons in your inbox. I've forwarded these to your boss in the hope that showing him your great sense of humour will raise his opinion of you. There was also some low-quality porn mail in your inbox, so I took the liberty of sumbitting your credit card information to a much higher quality service. I used your work email address, as you appear to use this most frequently to collect mail."
"I also notice you were deleting some documents from the MyDocuments folder yesterday. It appears you didn't have time to finish this activity though, so I have deleted the remaining documents for you."
Computer: Welcome back cookie, since you last visited i have found 5 more pictures for search result "Britney spears naked", and have taken the liberty to run them through my arousal program, they scored very highly and i think they will meet your approval.
Interesting stuff.
I certainly remember the internat back in 1997, when you could type something into a search engine, and get information on it.
Try that now, and you find a dozen sights trying to sell you it. Unless you actually want to buy it, then you'll only get the info...
I definitely find the internet to be more annoying, and less usefull than it was, so something like that idea of yours would actually make it useful again.
Need something to sort through the wealth of information for you...
I certainly remember the internat back in 1997, when you could type something into a search engine, and get information on it.
Try that now, and you find a dozen sights trying to sell you it. Unless you actually want to buy it, then you'll only get the info...
I definitely find the internet to be more annoying, and less usefull than it was, so something like that idea of yours would actually make it useful again.
Need something to sort through the wealth of information for you...
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