Watch this, it's 8 minuets, pertaining to googles future....
http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/
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 Jul 1 2005, 6:05 pm
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Nice find! Very intriguing prediction.
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The thing is, is that it's a prediction...a really creepy, really possible prediction. Might now happen. I can't imagine a world without the NYT.
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Electronic paper? Would be useful but I seriously doubt it for a while. Let's take a flashback:
Year 1999, ppl asking kids what do you think the year 200 will be like? Kid1: We will have motorized sidewalks 2: Hivercrafts 3: Food that pops out of capsules Year 2k5, nothing. It will take prolly 100 years b4 somethin drastic happens..But it wont seem that way cuz it will be slowly happening. | |
Here's what Europe looked like in the year 200!
http://www.euratlas.com/big/big0200.htm | |
yeah romans were sweet...
Did you know a lot of the gladiator games made 100's of animals go extinct? Pity, but amazing at the same time that they slaughtered so many animals for entertainment. I suppose if they had the option to digitally kill things like us, that they would have done so... but instead they had to do it with live animals and humans because they just didn't have the technology. People forget to see it that way... | |
It keeps cutting out on my partway through. What else does it go on about after buying up the blogs?
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I've actually read that their lead refineries and other industries resulted in -more- air pollution than most developed parts of the world put out today... in large part because they had little knowledge or interest in filtering such things. Interesting thing to think about.
And centuries before that, the Minoan civilization on Crete (widely believed to have been the society Plato was talking about when he described Atlantis) had hot and cold running water. A geared wheel from an analog computer (difference engine) was fished up off the coast of the island of Antikythera. They've dug up clay jars containing voltaic piles (a battery) in the area around Mesopotamia. The inventor Hero had steam powered automated puppet theaters with sound effects and programmable (analog and by hand, of course) curtain cues in the first century Current Era. The ancient Egyptians are said to have been able to cultivate whole fields of cotton that was already dyed when it was harvested. They also were able to successfully operate to remove brain tumors. In the 600s, the Byzantine Empire had a spontaneously flammable substance ("Greek fire") reported to keep burning even under water that they used in flamethrowers and hand grenades... and we don't know how to make it today. I haven't read it, but my older brother told me about an article he read that extrapolated from various sources and determined that if you took the best, most advanced examples of our society's technology... cars, computers, etc... and left them out in the desert or jungle or on the savannah somewhere... all recognizable signs would be gone in just a few hundred years. Interesting thing to think about. | |
Mecha Destroyer JD wrote:
Year 2k5, nothing. It will take prolly 100 years b4 somethin drastic happens..But it wont seem that way cuz it will be slowly happening. Why do people talk about Google's world wide monopoly stuffs as a bad thing? C'mon, you saw Google beat Microsoft. This can only be a Good Thing. I welcome Google to control my brain. | |
[edit]That is WAY over 8 minutes.