Mar 27

Written by: wayne bucklar
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

• Everything with batteries will be a web server, able to be interrogated and controlled over the net – bathroom scales, clocks, microwaves, fridges, door bells, air conditioning, motor cars... everything!
• Identity theft will be endemic and personal ID tokens will be as common as keys.
• Televisions and computers will have merged into home information displays.
• YouTube content will be on television with the same sort of audience as talk back gets today.
• Black and white will be an anachronism – everything will be colour.
• What we now call broadband will be as laughable as calling a Model T Ford a sports coupé.
• Radio will be a webpage with sound much like television was described as radio with pictures.
• Social recommendation engines that suggest what we eat and what we do and what we watch based on what our friends are doing will be everywhere.
• Cyber bullying will mutate into cyber mugging. "Give me your lunch money" will become "EFTpos me your lunch money"
• John Howard will still not get it.

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