In the year 2012...

[MoneyMan]

Some random thoughts and conjecture:

Think of how far we've come since 1997. Back before adsense (*gasp* can you even imagine), before G was the goliath or even more than the struggling dream of a few, the bubble just starting to hum, having a 56K modem was the norm, browsers reliability and compatibility sucked, banner ads were the standard in advertising, Amazon just sold books, personalization on websites was so cool, cookies feared as taboo by the public, remember VRML (ha!)...

In the year 2012 what will be the state of the Internet and Internet-related technologies?

Some primers to get thoughts churning:

- Complete integration between wireless PDA/Phones internet and television technologies to provide for unprecedented permission and "proactive" marketing opportunities.

- Websites are built around speech recognition which is standard in operating systems. This occurs because the wireless, PDA market becomes so large and every hates typing on the little keypads. Typing in general becomes really passé.

- Governments assert themselves through regulatory committees and laws under the pervasive hacking/virus/identity fraud problems plaguing internet based technologies. This, in turn, causes nothing but another taxable source and method for big brother monitoring.

- On Jan 21 2010 Google becomes self aware and takes control. John Connor is sent back in time to 1995 to stop Sergey and Larry from creating Google, he fails...but then tries two more times, still fails. Google becomes governor of California first then takes over with total global domination.

Anyone else care to play? Serious and not-so-serious prognosticating is welcome.

[cmatcme]

- Microsoft rule the web and every page has to pass their validator before it becomes live. If it doesn't you'll get prosecuted for trying.

- Google buys all search engines.

- All pages have to be written in Latin :)

cmatcme

[grandpa]

Latin? That seems like a step back. Klingon.

The average guy will skate down the street with headset wired sunglasses telling his HipPocketPC(c) what song he wants to hear next, while getting directions to the closest deli.

[cmatcme]

- Why bother get up to move to your PC when you have an intergrated chip in your brain which gives you instant capability of web access!

cmatcme

[Milamber]

Latin? That seems like a step back. Klingon.

Why not just learn how to speak 1337 5p34k?

[rocknbil]

ROMANIA, MAR 3 2010 - Today The International Internet Task force arrested 75 members of the of the infamous underground spam group, Don't Work For It Steal It, working out of what is believed to be the last hidden center of operations in a basement in Romania. This is believed to bring to an end the 20 year reign spam groups have held over the industry.

Unsolicited email and virii were outlawed in 2008 and the International Internet Task Force was formed as a result of the signing of the World Against Spam Treaty, an agreement bewtween 99% of the world's countries to cooperate in the elimination of the propagators of spam and virii.

Spamming, the second most serious offense under the Treaty, is punishable by surgigal removal of the hands and life imprisonment. Propagating virii is punishable by death by Rah-Rah.

[createErrorMsg]

Microsoft rule the web and every page has to pass their validator

I'm trying to imagine what a Microsoft validator would do. Their understanding of standards is so poor I'm afraid it would throw errors on lines of code that are properly formed...

XHTML:
Error on line 23: <img src="file.gif />.
Self-closing tags are proper XHTML. You should un-standardize your image tags before validating.

Or CSS:
Error on line 57: margin:0 auto;
The incorrect way to center block level elements is with align="center". Please change to this outdated, deprecated code before validating.

cEM