Jerkface
join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ
 ·Comcast
1 edit | pretty soon
pretty soon the internet will be connected to every waking part of our lives in ways we can never imagine: Television, Microwaves, EVERYTHING will be connected to the internet. Think about this: in a couple years, when people are talking about building a house, they'll be running power and fiber optic cabling throughout the entire house to connect everything imaginable! Its not too far away guys 
Oh, and to get to the 30% that have no use for the internet: Technology is the future, plain and simple. If you don't catch the wave, you'll miss it :P |
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GilbertMark
Premium
join:2001-05-02
Gilbert, AZ
·Cox HSI
| Hmm
Good for them. They are probably more productive than we are and breathe fresh air much more often, exercise more, and socialize more than the internet junkies do. Now if we could figure out how to become a much less pop culture driven society I would really be impressed.
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burgermeister
All Computers Are Junk
join:2000-10-23
Utica, MI | BBR Post of the day!  |
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MysticGogeta
The Robot Devil
Premium
join:2005-03-14
League City, TX
clubs: | reply to GilbertMark
Or they could be the bad part of society. |
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs:  | reply to GilbertMark
while this may sound funny I bet you this is true. |
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markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO
·Charter Pipeline
| reply to Jerkface
Re: pretty soon
said by Jerkface  :pretty soon the internet will be connected to every waking part of our lives in ways we can never imagine: Television, Microwaves, EVERYTHING will be connected to the internet. Think about this: in a couple years, when people are talking about building a house, they'll be running power and fiber optic cabling throughout the entire house to connect everything imaginable! Its not too far away guys Oh, and to get to the 30% that have no use for the internet: Technology is the future, plain and simple. If you don't catch the wave, you'll miss it :P You are far from reality, not pretty "soon", more like 22-50 years from now. You think every home is just going to up and get connected soon? dream on :P
Fiber in the home is not near ready for the average home, heck you don't even see it in majority of multimillion dollar homes now. Granted prices are going down, but you need it to equal the cost or wiring today a typical house to see it start to become popular. Once you see it hitting the $100k price range houses is when to get excited.
But onto the same point, no applications exist today that would even use that bandwidth that a normal cat5 wire can't handle so far.
I don't find it hard to believe %30 don't have internet, lots of people don't NEED it. |
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Middieman
Eschew Obfuscation
join:2001-02-05
Elkins Park, PA
| reply to Jerkface
It is possible to live without the internet.
Myself I pay bills on-line and buy lots of things that I used to go to the store for.
But I could still mail checks just fine to pay the bills. And going out shopping without really needing anything isn't quite the same.
Maybe the people without the internet are the smart ones.
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GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Ahhhh... a day without the Internet is like a day at the beach: far from the madding crowd.
Today is Shutdown Day (which, clearly, I haven't, but I just got FiOS... so screw that!).
It'll be a long, long time before Cat6 isn't good enough for internal cabling (and who will ever need more than 640K of memory in their 'personal computer'?).
I can wait for the future... like I have a choice? |
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twitchyx
join:2003-06-29
Plano, TX | Internet
I moved to a small town with my parents and didn't have internet for about 5 months. Really didn't matter to me. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to GilbertMark
Re: Hmm
To put it in another context: Those thirty percent are the ones out getting laid and the seventy percent are online talking about getting laid.
Some things never change.
I revel in those times when I am unreachable by computer, phone or even mail. The day at the beach comment above is spot-on.
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ironweasel
Weezy
join:2000-09-13
Belen, NM | What about old folks?
Now what are the chances that the majority of that 30% are elderly?
I'd say at least half of them are and that would be the reason for the "disinterest". |
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Xizer
join:2004-02-05
New York, NY | reply to Middieman
Re: pretty soon
"Maybe the people without the internet are the smart ones."
All I have to say to that is that that is the stupidest statement I've heard in the past few days. |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq
·Fairpoint Communic..
| This is how you explain the republican vote
Everyone knows, the internet is the tool of satan, or at least the republicans and their corporate cronies know. That's why the internet should be BANNED. But the problem is, that only 30% of the people realize this. The rest have fallen sway under the twin evils of 'progress' and 'human rights'. Those sinners won't be taken to heaven when god calls all the true believers back with the rapture. (well, the rest of us will breath a sigh of relief if that day FINALLY does ever come, which it won't, because there is no god). In any case. Internet = Evil. Evil = Democrat. Democrat = 70% of the population now.
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Middieman
Eschew Obfuscation
join:2001-02-05
Elkins Park, PA | reply to Xizer
Re: pretty soon
Care to elaborate on your eloquent observation?
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joako
Premium
join:2000-09-07
/dev/null
·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to Jerkface
said by Jerkface :pretty soon the internet will be connected to every waking part of our lives in ways we can never imagine: Television, Microwaves, EVERYTHING will be connected to the internet. Think about this: in a couple years, when people are talking about building a house, they'll be running power and fiber optic cabling throughout the entire house to connect everything imaginable! Its not too far away guys Oh, and to get to the 30% that have no use for the internet: Technology is the future, plain and simple. If you don't catch the wave, you'll miss it :P Why not Ethernet? Think about it. Why does your microwave need fiber? Ethernet IMO is the next universal bus. Sort of how like CANbus is a slow bus, why not replace that with off the shelf Ethernet??
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ydoucare
join:2003-03-12
Rensselaer, IN | reply to karlmarx
Re: This is how you explain the republican vote
How much of that 30% are people that can't even afford a computer, much less internet? |
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nanoflower
join:2002-07-14
30876
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Re: pretty soon
I think that's the wrong approach. The only thing that really makes sense is to go wireless. Now today it would be very hard to make it work, but I wouldn't be surprised in 15-20 years if the various home appliance companies had gotten together and come up with a common approach to netowrking their systems together so that you put one device in your home to actually be wired (probably a combination NAT/router) that communicates with your various appliances. After all I'm not sure why you need to deliver the ultra high speeds that fiber could deliver to your refridgerator. |
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NYC Girl
Premium
join:2007-02-04
Bronx, NY | reply to Subaru
Re: Hmm
what do you mean by that? |
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NYC Girl
Premium
join:2007-02-04
Bronx, NY | reply to ironweasel
Re: What about old folks?
My 86 year old grandfather is not interested in the internet I am sure he is part of the 30% who does not have it. |
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richardpor
Fur it up
join:2003-04-19
Portland, OR | How Ironic
30% chose not to have internet but internet activist will be dam sure they will pay their "fair share" for tax payer funded muni broadband. |
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