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Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
Are these servers communicating internationally? The department of foreign affairs would like to have a word.
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
It's amazing just how quickly you can catch the under estimation of the internet's potential. Within the first sentence, starting with the word "imagine", the largest image that could be conjured is related to viewing content created offline, rather than creating and sharing it within the internet itself. In the furthest stretches of the imagination, the prediction still falls very short. No criticism to anyone in 19…
> the largest image that could be conjured is related to viewing content created offline Its because 1990s world was still the feudal, one-way world in which large corporations dominated everything and the users 'knew their place' and consumed content and products. Occasionally, a corporation would stoop low as to ask users' feedback to improve their product. And people would praise and elevate that corporation as be…
I would say that describes the online world now, not at the internets adoption in 1990s.
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I think Bowie's prediction for the impact of the internet was not too far off the mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU
The parent comment is 6 minutes, but the full 15 minute interview (about more the the internet) is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf6KZmJyrA
1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's when I was in high school. He bought SellMemphis.com, SellAtlanta.com, etc and wanted to create a directory for local businesses. Also - good on you, Philips Flowers, for keeping 1800florals.com in…
The only reason this isn't a thing yet is because consumers don't ask for it and companies don't want heat for making their entertainment "all about the money". We will definitely see something like that soon, is my bet. Perhaps not "AI" which is able to inspect the scene from a video feed and recognise items for your convenient weekend shopping (say you wanted to purchase the vase used in movie X, or the drapes from tv-show Y). But we're not far off...
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That's amazing, I don't even care if its true.
Reminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
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Why don’t I even have the option to have friends on Netflix and make lists of movies I watch that I think they would like?
This is one of those features that people think they want, and would cost Netflix a ton of money, but would ultimately become filled with spam and would only have a small number of power users. It's a big money pit that does little to retain users and generate revenue. "More social" has been pitched to Spotify countless times and it would likely face a similar fate.
Funny thing that sending an e-mail to the president (Brazilian president) was one of the first things I did when got online (1995). It was basically Playboy website and this till I found IRC :p
We didn’t even have free local calls so being able to chat with a F/14/California was mind blowing! Funny how many of them there were…
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
Why don’t I even have the option to have friends on Netflix and make lists of movies I watch that I think they would like?
* amazon.1 is the index of sites
* amazon.123 is Amazon Inc.
* amazon.878 is some roof installation company
* amazon.111 is a courthouse in Brazil