Jerkface
join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ
 ·Comcast
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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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markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO
·Charter Pipeline
| 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
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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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Xizer
join:2004-02-05
New York, NY | reply to Middieman
"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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Middieman
Eschew Obfuscation
join:2001-02-05
Elkins Park, PA | Care to elaborate on your eloquent observation?
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joako
Premium
join:2000-09-07
/dev/null
·AT&T U-Verse
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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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nanoflower
join:2002-07-14
30876
| 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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lkviewguy
join:2004-02-13
Chicago, IL | reply to Jerkface
I see you share the same far-fetched and unreal vision that Bill Gates seem to have with the "Digital Home" or whatever he calls it. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to Middieman
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Some of us can’t go more than a few hours without access to the Internet before we feel like we’ve become completely out-of-touch with our worlds.
'got that right. And I'm a middle-aged ol' fart. The younger you are, the more you feel that way.
That 30% will go down as it dies off; I'm sure the vast majority are elderly. I still remember the time we had to buy an airline ticket for my mother-in-law and subsquently take her to the airport. It was impossible to explain the concept of "electronic ticket" to her, and we had to get a paper one: no online check-in, no using the express check-in machines in the terminal; it took forever. |
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orph4824
I Ate What??
join:2001-04-26
Greeneville, TN
| I live in a relatively small town and took some friends to the movie theater last year, I'm 38 and they are new to the net when we got there they started to pull out money and stand in line, I walked upto the quick ticket machine swiped my cc and out popped 3 tickets of which I had already paid for online, bypassed the line and went straight on in after I gave them thiers should've seen the looks on thier faces it was a kodak momment, needless to say they now order the tickets online after a quick how-to.
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL
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Microwaves? Oh,Great. Does, that mean my mircowave might see the blue screen of death.
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Topmounter
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to markopoleo
I don't even own a microwave. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to Jerkface
Why in gods name would you need fiber though out a house? You can get Gigabit over copper. |
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Authority
Obama Biden '12
join:2000-03-29
Beverly Hills, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
 ·Packet8
·magicjack.com
| reply to Middieman
said by Middieman :Maybe the people without the internet are the smart ones. Maybe huh? Occasionally I think my BlackBerry is all I really need, and with faster wireless coming that might be true.
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to markopoleo
"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."
Yea yea.. bla bla.. the same thing was said about broadband in general. in 1998 when DSL really started to become popular at $89.99 a month for 256 maxing out at 1.5, no one thought that it was be up to 6mb in a short time either. No one thought cable would be pushing 16 meg / 2meg... BB has only been around for about 8 years in reality and look at where we are.. so please, tell me.. how can you be so sure that it will be 50 years..?
..and no one really "needs" the internet. If they did, it would be classified as a utility.
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Middieman
Eschew Obfuscation
join:2001-02-05
Elkins Park, PA
| reply to Authority
That'd be part of my point if I felt like making one.
While I would need to make an educated guess about other people's habits, I am aware that I'm capable of spending a great deal of time doing all kinds of stuff on the internet. And I would have to say that there are times that there doesn't seem to be much more that I need either. (Cause I like doing what I do with the internet in my spare time.)
So what can be missing is the question? Oh the internet is a remarkable communications tool, but it doesn't replace people. (Or at least it shouldn't.)
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bandit8623
join:2004-09-08
Elk River, MN
| reply to nanoflower
the problem with this is wireless is open and can be cracked (sniffed). no offense but i dont want some idiot to turn my internet stove on when im not home :P. Me personally would want internal wiring. Also i would want fiber for the lowest latency posible. if you are going to wire your house for broadband why not spend the extra money for fiber. (your house cost over 100 k already) |
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Corehhi
join:2002-01-28
Bluffton, SC
| reply to Topmounter
I don't own a cellphone and have never used one. I have no reason to be that in touch with anyone, if they want me , they have to find me.
BTW When I was single cellphone weighed 4 lbs. LOL. If I was dating I would have a cell phone.
Many people have no use for the internet. 10% of the people in the US are probably retarded anyways. |
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Corehhi
join:2002-01-28
Bluffton, SC | reply to Middieman
If your poor that stuff doesn't apply. There are a lot of people who don't have checking accounts. Think about it. |
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