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Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by EvanAnderson »

the_jesus_villa wrote: post #53
losvedir wrote: post #2

Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!

Ironically, I just ran into this phrase last week while reading an anthropology paper from the 90's ("Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala") Whenever I hear this phrase it reminds me the part in the book Cryptonomicon where the pretentious humanities professor feels so clever for asking "How many slums will we bulldoze to build the Information Su…

Oh, ugh... Memories of all the awful road metaphor headlines of the time are flooding back-- "Breaking Down on the Information Superhighway", "Traffic Jams...",

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by april_22 »

poszlem wrote: post #36

Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by slfnflctd »

TYPE_FASTER wrote: post #43
illwrks wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine the admin required to setup and manage something like that... If implemented now, what about in 2032 when you're watching re-runs from 2022? What if the store goes bust or styles change?

Deepfakes will solve this Display advertising will show you products that you have expressed an interest in today. Streaming video has ad slots similar to traditional linear TV because it's what people are used to. There is the opportunity to do much much more. What I could see happening is content changing to be tailored to the viewer. This would both decrease subscriber churn in the increasingly competitive streami…

> the opportunity to do much much more

I envision clothing & hairstyles being changed in the same video from one year to another, or even customized per viewer demographic. Admins could simply toss some product links over and let the ML do its thing.

Of course, this would require a ton of standardization of product types and categories, which I could see being difficult to get consensus on. Perhaps one company/consortium would corner the market and just use human labor to fill the gaps where automation isn't ready, much as is often done today.

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

april_22 wrote: post #63
poszlem wrote: post #36

Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031

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Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by irrational »

april_22 wrote: post #63
poszlem wrote: post #36

Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031

Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.

Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

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Post by photochemsyn »

sn41 wrote: post #28
desindol wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…

This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!

The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
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