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Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:36:20 2011 No.3219768 [Reply] [Original]

Will there ever be an invention that renders the Internet superfluous?

Speculate a little for my entertainment please.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:37:20 2011 No.3219775 >>3219768 A bucket of fish

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:37:20 2011 No.3219773 The bio-router. Install that bitch right into your brain.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:38:20 2011 No.3219777 The Internet 2

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:40:20 2011 No.3219784 Well, really what I see is the internet just becoming better and more effective and information transfer. The internet will continue to be improved, even if this causes it to one day be hardly recognizable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:40:20 2011 No.3219787 Shipnet. When we all live aboard a giant generation starship.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:42:20 2011 No.3219793 Maybe people might talk to each other directly someday again?

Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:42:20 2011 No.3219794

Depends on what you define internet to be.

Because if you go as broad as a connection allowing a flow of information, then obviously that will NEVER be rendered superfluous.

However, if you're talking about connecting computers via some cables then it's possible we might find a new method of data transfer, I suppose...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:44:20 2011 No.3219804 Superfluous as in more than necessary? Well, for that to be the case, we'd all have to know everything about everything. That way the internet would be superfluous.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:45:20 2011 No.3219808 File: 13 KB, 200x200, 1300044776986.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3219793 >the future >not communicating telepathically over The Internet 2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:46:20 2011 No.3219812 If we could transfer all human minds into a computer and somehow fuse them into a single consciousness, then communication would be obsolete. Just a big spacemind, sitting in space, thinking about buttsex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:48:20 2011 No.3219822 >>3219768 Superfluous is a nice word but all too often it's used wrong by people who want to sound erudite. It means surplus to requirements. I think the word you ought to use is "obsolete".

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 09:50:20 2011 No.3219829 >>3219822 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedantic

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 10:00:20 2011 No.3219867 File: 161 KB, 373x341, smirk2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3219829 What is that? The only insult you can direct towards people who are correct?

Anonymous Mon Jun 13 10:11:20 2011 No.3219914

>>3219768
Yes there is. Once life form grows to such ludicrous extend that it is spread across large areas of space it will be near impossible to have the internet in the form of each parity capable of accessing any other parity. Number of proxies will be too high to make it rentable. Although for some applications it will still be preserved.

Technically speaking this is the only way you can drive the internet obsolete - if response time of some content becomes near unaccessible. Then the commercial internet will become fracturised and will resemble a rather several bid LANs.

Obviously there still will be a network connecting the fracturised LANs but it's main purpose will be to interchange more important messages (will act more like a post or mail today - slow method of delivering documents that can't be otherwise sent or information that can't be otherwise obtained). Like if your grandma is on Earth and you are on Alpha Centauri then you clearly have to use the "slow" version of internet but otherwise you aren't going to wait 8 years for reply when posting on a forum - you'll use the spaceships/planetary LAN.

blah blah it's longer than intended.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 10:12:20 2011 No.3219922 >>3219914 bid => big

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 10:14:20 2011 No.3219930 >>3219867 I can't carry all these cunts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 10:26:20 2011 No.3219985 >>3219867 I said nothing, but obviously you felt it was an insult so obviously you are aware it makes you seem like a douche. /ya mad

kilo !6Mf6LtCqak Mon Jun 13 10:28:20 2011 No.3219996

>>3219822
Not pedantic, unless the poster is a non-native speaker who studies with a thesaurus, but this has yet to be determined so we assume otherwise.

>>3219829
is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamatory
because
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly
due to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecurity
resulting from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_size#Poor_education

>>3219768
I think we can be certain that the 'internet' will never be obsolete, but it will change dramatically and look nothing like what we have today. A better topic would be on the future medium and mode of the enternets. Perhaps this is what our Russian friend meant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 11:17:20 2011 No.3220180 >>3219996 lol'd at 2nd part of post

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