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Re:A Note to My Readers by rmrfrmrf on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:09PM (#8962243)
> it reinforces my own feeling that "The Internet" might one day be regarded as nothing more than a phase that simply faded in and out of our human evolution.

Ah, yes, much like industrialization faded after the transcendentalists. /s

Re:A Note to My Readers by voidz on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:18PM (#8962313)
Haha! Well, okay, alright. Perhaps I should have used the word "integrated", or "succeeded" even, rather than "faded". I meant that we'd have moved on, not back. Thanks for the laugh; here's an upvote. ^
Re:A Note to My Readers by jeorgun on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:33PM (#8963261)
My suspicion is that, over time, our computers will become something more like the neo-Victorians' from The Diamond Age. If the Internet is as ubiquitous as electricity, it stands to reason it'd become less obtrusive; a future smart watch would be no more obviously digital than my wristwatch is obviously powered by electricity, and probably (hopefully!) no less bothersome.