Week 11 - Future Perspectives

This weeks lesson was all about the future of communites and the internet. It was really interesting to read the "history of futures" - futures means, the future, to study the future - and "futures pholosophy". I have to admit though it is a bit weird when you start to look at what is predicted to happen, for example on the "BT Technology Timeline" it states- 2010, the highest earning celebrity is synthetic, and 2075, humans assimilated into the internet.

I looked around on the internet for more information on this area and as well as the "BT Technology Timeline" i came accross the following websites:

http://www.futurestrust.org.nz/Futuresthinking.html - this website talks all about "futures thinking", just what it is and how it works.

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011026S0109 - a news story about the internet's future and also peoples behaviour.

http://www.theta.com/goodman/future.htm - states what they think the internet will be like in the future.

I have to admit that i think most of what is predicted is either very far fetched or will not happen by the time they say it will, but it still provided me with much interested while reading. But saying that i cannot say that none of these will be possible because technology is always changing and has changed so much in such a short time that I guess anything is possible.

As for communities i think that graphics and multimedia will be more used for these in the future. Communties will probably be like full worldd that you can explore and meet new people, but actually get to see what they look like at the same time! Im sure there will be much more that will be achieved but i guess until then we will just have to wait and see!