Warning: It’s real late, and you should read the entire thing, before thinking less of me.
I wonder what it’ll be like 50 years from now?
Right now…
Everything is digital. Everything exists permanently. Everybody consumes more information than they used to. Everybody knows more people.
The revolution of the flow of information is upon & behind us. The leaders have already embraced it. We’re in the second half of a bubble where the laggards are joining the revolution. Now we have to all learn how to exist within it. The leaders that were hear first, will reap and leverage rewards in the form of capitalist and non-fiscal present value. Innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors are accelerating with the flow of information. So fast, I can feel it whizzing past me. It’s chilling to be part of it. I’m so glad I am.
Seriously, don’t shoot the guy trying to be poetically full of nauseating foresight, but everything I said is true. There are still people I know, who don’t realize it. So I wrote the above, even tho others have said before me, but just in my own (nauseating) words haha!
In 50 years, am I going to be jacked in so much that when my friend buys a stock, I’ll get the choice whether or not I want to execute a market order at the same instance? Will people complain about SPAM in their neural networks? Will fuzzy logic be more common place than digital? Side note – there’s an idea – a fuzzy blog theme. I’m not talking about hair, if you’re not a geek, it’s too hard to explain. When are we going to be able to search by pixel instead of strings? And when are true, large scale, social network collaborative tools going to actually be efficient? Or how about the evolution of the IDE – no more text based code, not even image based. I want a thought based software development platform. That’s right, they will likely have to move way past gesture based input, and figure out thought based user input methods first. Oh, that will be a fluffy field – User Centered Thought Based Design.
But what is 50 years going to bring to networking? They say there is 6 degrees of separation between any two people on earth, but that shrinking. Surely there is an upper bound to the number of people a sane (productive) person can follow on twitter. But thousands of followers means degrees of separations are shrinking.
How can I participate in this shrinking world while leveraging my youth? By doing what I’m doing(?) – Talking to myself – haha!
Disclosure – I’m already long the flow of information