The future of the internet

Hades said:
We'll do far more on the internet. We'll watch TV through it for a start. We can see that happening now and it will be the norm in years to come. It will be the hub of the home. Media won't be stored locally but it will be streamed from central providers. So new songe, for example, would be rented rather than owned (or more likely you'll pay a set fee per months and have access to their library while you're subscribed).
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I imagine when you subscribe to someone like Virgin you will be able to pay a bit extra to get access to the media library or something like that.

I remember a year or two ago I was reading about TVIP and thought that would never happen, now here we are, I watched BBC 1 streamed live the other night.
 
virgin media customers will have a 500000mb connection but the upload will remain at 128k.
customers also will be throttled to a 4mb connection after their download+upload => 600mb.

but only pirates would complain about that so shush :p
 
Raist said:
Like "Hackers", surfing through a city-scape structure to access what you need. The globe will be duplicated and you can navigate right to someone's home if you'd like.

I'll bet Google already has it in the works.
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Ughh, now they're going to make we walk on the internet :(
 
I would not be surprised to find that in 10 years time it will be a requirement in the UK to use a unique, traceable login to access the internet, tied to central databases owned by the government, administered by whichever private company gets their snout in the trough and mostly left on a train/in the post/who knows where. Everything you do online will be logged and be part of the dossier the authorities keep on you from birth to death.

For your own good, of course. It will help the economy, prevent identity "theft", reduce terrorism, help the environment, reduce benefit fraud, stop illegal immigration, make it snow prettily at Christmas, reduce fuel bills, help families (single people are worthless, so they are always to be ignored), help pensioners, reduce knife crime and <insert lies about whatever issues are in the news at the time>.
 
I like where sites/companies such as NetFlix and Rahpsody are going, paying a monthly fee and having everything streamed with no limitations :)
 
Angilion said:
I would not be surprised to find that in 10 years time it will be a requirement in the UK to use a unique, traceable login to access the internet, tied to central databases owned by the government, administered by whichever private company gets their snout in the trough and mostly left on a train/in the post/who knows where. Everything you do online will be logged and be part of the dossier the authorities keep on you from birth to death.

For your own good, of course. It will help the economy, prevent identity "theft", reduce terrorism, help the environment, reduce benefit fraud, stop illegal immigration, make it snow prettily at Christmas, reduce fuel bills, help families (single people are worthless, so they are always to be ignored), help pensioners, reduce knife crime and <insert lies about whatever issues are in the news at the time>.
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i reckon this will happen as well..i cant see us using the internet as freely and anonymously as we do today..
 
Angilion said:
I would not be surprised to find that in 10 years time it will be a requirement in the UK to use a unique, traceable login to access the internet, tied to central databases owned by the government, administered by whichever private company gets their snout in the trough and mostly left on a train/in the post/who knows where. Everything you do online will be logged and be part of the dossier the authorities keep on you from birth to death.

For your own good, of course. It will help the economy, prevent identity "theft", reduce terrorism, help the environment, reduce benefit fraud, stop illegal immigration, make it snow prettily at Christmas, reduce fuel bills, help families (single people are worthless, so they are always to be ignored), help pensioners, reduce knife crime and <insert lies about whatever issues are in the news at the time>.
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Roll on 1984! WOOOOO!
 
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