“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968

Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by vulcanodon on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:44PM (#16098804)

Hey neat, I've had a copy of this book on my shelf for a few years now, but I'd forgotten all about it. Very interesting to read about the background behind the text. Maybe I should print out the article and store it with the book for future readers.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by shrimp_emoji on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:02PM (#16099030)

And this comment thread! You want your time capsule to be thorough, right? c:

Hey, nerds in 2068! Today, we think mobile devices, IoT creep, the cloud, and machine learning are the future of computing while lamenting an erosion of privacy and security; were we silly geese, or is that your guys' reality? Also, have you contacted aliens or become digital consciousnesses yet?

Yours, someone who's hopefully still alive (as a digital consciousness aware of how weird aliens are)

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by brabel on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:29PM (#16100156)

Nobody will understand what "IoT creep" and "cloud" mean (at least not the meaning you imply) in 50 years :D

So, for their benefit: - IoT creep - Internet of Things is a movement towards adding tiny computers into all things (light switches, plant watering systems, fridges, toasters ...) so they can communicate and be controlled from mobile phones. - Cloud - refers to cloud computing, which is just the way we call when you put information or code to run on a company's server instead of on your own computer.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by varjag on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:32PM (#16100192)

We understand the general trends in tech that happened 50 years ago, I fail to see why people in the future would be different.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by justherefortart on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:23PM (#16100092)

2068 here, everyone's addicted to virtual sex. Once you had body suits that could simulate your entire environment, we no longer cared about being outside the facebook social network in a real sense.

A few of us venture outside to reminisce about the old days, but our fascismo overlords have made those opportunities less and less over the years.

Reap the discord you've sown.

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