hi there!
hilbert's hotel, hm? nice one... i like the idea of having an intellectual discussion with people and opinions from all over the world. so here's my thread:
what do you think is the most probable vision of future?
please read on. future in context of one century, approximately. vision refers to our daily life, our work, our lifestyle, what people talk about.
if you want, you can give a short historical approach of what will have happened in 100 years from now.
the most probable future that i expect to come i've read in a book called "der mastercode" by scott mcbain. in his book he describes a world which is centered around and focused on a computer system called "mother". mother saves every information about our single least important detail of life. where you buy your shoes. where you get your water from. the world is classified by people's net worth.
leaving the last detail unnoticed, the technocentrical world seems very probable to me. i've watched development of the internet and its possibilities for quite a while now (not at last because i'm also a regular user). grabbing one's information from here and there, building one's own information centrals. "web 2.0" is a big step in this direction, heading for our individual experience of the virtual world.
2007 - windows vista comes out. the .net framework 3.0 leads to an overwhelming diversity of software products
2010 - more than 50% of all people are involved in some kind of online community
2021 - microsoft loses its monopolistic position when the von neumann computer design architecture gets outdated and replaced by a more modern, nanotechnological approach
2057 - grey goo of the virtual world.
what do you think?
