The Internet's future - [Closes 14/04/07]

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Originally Posted by Soph!

Doubt anything major will happen in our lifetimes, when my dad was a kid they said by 2000 everyone would be driving around in hover cars etc.

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Well they are kind of right. Because in the Year 2000 it was possible, just it's expensive and unpopular.

My 666th post! Mw ha ha ha

We can't really tell it all depends on what large companies invest in and who comes up with what ideas and what people will be interested in. :)

People said the virtual reality thing with gloves and hat ect. wont happen for a while. Ill give it 4-6 years. As wii are currently developing a tool for wiis that allow you to put on a hat and gloves and go "inside the game".
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8...realitynb7.jpg

The internet will eventually run out of space within the next 10-20 years and a new system will be set up called the enternet.
This is what some fellow students and I found out when we were at college studying the internet and it's uses.

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Originally Posted by ~Gem~

The internet will eventually run out of space within the next 10-20 years and a new system will be set up called the enternet.
This is what some fellow students and I found out when we were at college studying the internet and it's uses.

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How can it run out when servers are being developed and hooked up to the Internet to hold data all the time also domain extensions will just be replaced with new ones the Internet can't physically "run out of space". :)

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Originally Posted by ~Gem~

The internet will eventually run out of space within the next 10-20 years and a new system will be set up called the enternet.
This is what some fellow students and I found out when we were at college studying the internet and it's uses.

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Sorry but thats one of the silliest things thats ever been said in the history of the world, are you under the delusion that thw whole internet is on 1 computer? The internet is millions of servers connected together, it could never run out of space as you can add as many servers to it as you want. Your college teacher is either pulling your leg or an idiot

People have been suggesting something like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MX5OOZJABCM
Warning: Possible innapropriate content.
Maybe in a few hundred, scratch that, a thousand years?
Video gaming like that, having the models an exact replica of you and being all virtual reality would be AWESOME.
However more achievable goals would be;
Faster, cheaper and more popular.

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Originally Posted by TheLastShadow

Internet should be free. All these companies making a profit off of it. My state in USA might be giving out a state wide internet access via WiFi. Heard it on the news.

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Now that would be cool, Government Internet is the way forward. (but in America I could see Bush having 1001 restrictions/regulations.)

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Originally Posted by TheLastShadow

Internet should be free. All these companies making a profit off of it. My state in USA might be giving out a state wide internet access via WiFi. Heard it on the news.

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but it would probably have a really low limited time on it per month???

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Originally Posted by Djcafc.

but it would probably have a really low limited time on it per month???

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Why would it?