laugh a little

[drhill]

In a way it's funny.
Our future in communicating will likely be via a web / network of some kind or another. Sounds visuals motion - news education etcetera etcetera will be interactively experienced via our humble computer screen... fact... and here we sit attempting to sort out how...
where - please is our digital CEO?
D

[Duir]

Mr Future here!

All communication will be transformed when the normal telephone becomes the video-phone. This will be a reality by 2007. Mobile video-phones will be the first, and they arrive in 2003/4. When the video phone eventually connects to the internet also, and can also receive TV and radio, we will have the true "Information Super Highway". The internet will then be divided into various seprate "internets" (kids's internet, academic internet, shopping internet, entertainment internet) to solve the speed/connection problem. Dialup modems will be phased out by 2010, the world will only use broadband.

Sorry, what was your Flix question again? Ha ha

Duir.

[Spirit of 45]

Sure, and when I was a kid I thought that by now everyone would be driving hovercars, take holidays on the Moon and live on a space station.

Instead we've got cable TV and Windows XP

Dick Tracey calling Go-Go Gomez...

[Duir]

Yes, futuruism got a very loud wake-up call and futurists realsied that you have to take into account un-forseens, like wars, inflation and stock market values. However, my predictions are probably quite accurate. For instance, G3 mobile video phones were already tested successfully last year and WILL be introduced late 2002/early 2003 in Europe. Dialup IS unusable and will have to be phased out, and I think 8 years from now is a fair estimate for the world to be on affordable broadband. In the UK telephones are already available that also send/recieve emails (Amstrad), many mobile phones (like mine) also do this. And the information super highway, as coined by Al Gore, the next US President in 2004 , can be nothing else than a consolidation of all medias and telephony including internet into one interface.

Flix Max Diamond, will, by 2009, be a video camera incorporating video editing, SWF conversion and internet connectivity, to email and upload live video recordings in SWF format. It will also incorporate a toaster, electric kettle and satellite navigation system
Duir.

[drhill]

`LOL -
ummm - trying to configure my 2nd PC to tell my wife she is beautiful and loved...so I can concentrate on my jobs at hand...oh - btw - since'we're posting here - flix is good.
:-o
:-)

[mr-psycho]

I'm not sure that Videophones will really take off, they've been around for a while now and so has netmeeting.. most people switch off the cam and prefer to be unseen. Also have you noticed how Big text message sending by mobile phone is..people don't even want to talk to each other all the time.. send a text its easier than trying to cover up how you Really feel

And American presidents? After the failures with the voting last time I should imagine that the Queen will be revoking the privelige of independance and it'll become part of the UK again!