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Hmm. Just doing a little reading of the news and examining trends that I've noticed in the last little while, I feel like making a couple predictions.
1. Our children will not use Windows. Or if they do, it will be a Windows so drastically different from what we know. Windows as it stands is collapsing (dad sent me an article about this); it simply does not have the flexibility to be used in the number of ways that the Mac OS can. It's only a matter of time until the iPod phenomenon becomes the iPhone phenomenon, and before we know it, it'll just be the iPhenomenon. I applaud Apple, though; they've taken the time to engineer their technology so it is compatible and flexible (and good looking to boot), and the market has responded. Convergence and consolidation are only beginning with mobile technologies.
2. Facebook is not the way of the future. It's the end-all-be-all right now, but I give Facebook only a couple more years before another, even more powerful, social software takes its place. First it was email. Then message boards. Then MSN. Then Facebook. The question is--what will it be? What more of ourselves will we have to lay out on the line that corporations will use for their own benefit? Because let's be honest, every little bit of information you input into Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, blog, and your "about me" wiki page, finds its way either directly into a third party's hands, or indirectly via Google or another spider. This is the price we pay to exist within the cyber world--not a high one, for most of us, and one we seem to enjoy paying time and time again (as the plethora of little boxes and quizzes on Facebook would indicate; afterall, the entire site is nothing more than us sharing little intimate details with each other, and the world at large). My guess is that another social software will converge with mobile technologies to create something that will be so quick, so flexible, so immediate and prevalent that we'll wonder how we ever lived without it. Y'know, like the telegraph once did.
...and now, coming back to this post a little while later, I can't quite think of anything else to add, so I'm going to interrupt myself rudely and shout:
I'M DONE FOR THE SEMESTER! WOOHOO!!!
That's right. No books til May, baby. Boom-shaka-laka!
Aaaaaaaaah I'm so happyyyyyy! I'm going to put on some ridiculously loud music and boogie. Sweeeeeeet.
1. Our children will not use Windows. Or if they do, it will be a Windows so drastically different from what we know. Windows as it stands is collapsing (dad sent me an article about this); it simply does not have the flexibility to be used in the number of ways that the Mac OS can. It's only a matter of time until the iPod phenomenon becomes the iPhone phenomenon, and before we know it, it'll just be the iPhenomenon. I applaud Apple, though; they've taken the time to engineer their technology so it is compatible and flexible (and good looking to boot), and the market has responded. Convergence and consolidation are only beginning with mobile technologies.
2. Facebook is not the way of the future. It's the end-all-be-all right now, but I give Facebook only a couple more years before another, even more powerful, social software takes its place. First it was email. Then message boards. Then MSN. Then Facebook. The question is--what will it be? What more of ourselves will we have to lay out on the line that corporations will use for their own benefit? Because let's be honest, every little bit of information you input into Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, blog, and your "about me" wiki page, finds its way either directly into a third party's hands, or indirectly via Google or another spider. This is the price we pay to exist within the cyber world--not a high one, for most of us, and one we seem to enjoy paying time and time again (as the plethora of little boxes and quizzes on Facebook would indicate; afterall, the entire site is nothing more than us sharing little intimate details with each other, and the world at large). My guess is that another social software will converge with mobile technologies to create something that will be so quick, so flexible, so immediate and prevalent that we'll wonder how we ever lived without it. Y'know, like the telegraph once did.
...and now, coming back to this post a little while later, I can't quite think of anything else to add, so I'm going to interrupt myself rudely and shout:
I'M DONE FOR THE SEMESTER! WOOHOO!!!
That's right. No books til May, baby. Boom-shaka-laka!
Aaaaaaaaah I'm so happyyyyyy! I'm going to put on some ridiculously loud music and boogie. Sweeeeeeet.