What is Digg?61 Comments
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Rock and Roll won't die in 10 years. Sorry.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13TheRonald, the future events *might* not be accurate. For instance, it doesn't even mention digg replacing Howard Stern as the king of all media.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8rock and roll will never die
rock and roll aint noise pollution
long live rock and roll - teh1337one, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.futureswatch.org/images/K-Wave6.swf , if anyone wants the full-screen original .swf
- JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5so what do you think of youtube and google video anyway? flash is now a "de facto" standard. get over with it
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5that was time consuming
- velox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I liked the little anecdote with the "Expected decline in oil production" and "Increased risk of America being involved in a war" events expected to occur at the same time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5By 2020 science will make it possible for j0keR to have Kevin Rose's baby and then he'll be complete.
- Sandkat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Rock and roll IS dead. I'm sorry but have you listened to it lately? I think the early 21st century will bring rise to electronic music more into the mainstream. It is really one of the most diverse and imaginative forms of music out there today.
- benc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@devilish: you may also want to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_%28book%29
IMHO, categorizing generations is rather subjective, but interesting nonetheless. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cool but it would have that little extra exclamation point if it had wikipedia links.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Internet growth reached saturation last year?
That seems inaccurate to me - until we get to the point where there is broadband pretty much everywhere in the world and the oldest people in every country have had net access since they were young people. Until we get to that stage, it keeps growing. It'll never be 100% of the population, but it'll be a much bigger percentage than it is now. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Rock and roll died in the early 1960s (Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry). It was replaced with pop (Beach Boys, later Beatles) and rock (Led Zeppelin). People continued to make rock 'n roll, of course, but basically hard rock and easy rock/pop replaced it. That doesn't include developments like funk, R&B, reggae, art/prog rock, folk, etc. There's a tendency to call pop music "rock" nowadays, but it just isn't.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where are the next Star Wars movies?
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2LOGIN NOW FOR YAH FWEE PSYKICK WEEDIN!
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, but what does it mean? Early Advance of what? Sputnik and jets were ahead of their time but gene therapy and the space station are in late decline?
- illu45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks interesting... Looking forward to this "World Beat" thing that's supposed to take over in four or so years...
Wonder how long it took to make that thing, and what algorithms it used for its predictions. - TwwIX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i assume miss cleo designed this flash presentation
- uberjurk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the year 2045 humans develop the ability to interpret super-complicated graphs, but lose it in 2053 when Intelligent Design enjoys a revival.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't think they would bother doing this unless they could manage to do it with some degree of 'accuracy'.
I did like the large 'increased probability of American involvement in a war' period though. - iXneonXi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.iter.org/
- msgmsg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its not 2010 yet
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nuclear fusion by 2050, huh? Sounds good to me!
- cyclotron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1??? Too bad the data is funny. "World oil production declines?" UM, no. Production is increasing, but consumption is increasing exponetially. Additionally, political conflict and weather are influencing fuel prices.
- scstraus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it died sometime around 1992. Everything now is simply retrospective pop.
- scstraus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a mess.
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Tune to any pop station and you'll hear nothing but hip-hop. Sad but true.
- opencity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This isn't so much flash as a dragable pdf. Was there some functionality I was missing?
Interesting ideas, awful interface - Zaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I agree with pampusik, and I am also dubious about the self-consistency and usefulness of the chart's predictions. The chart shows computers currently sitting at the top of an S-shaped curve, but meanwhile the nanotech curve promises us extremely small, fast computers by 2020. Wha...??
What evidence is there to suggest the internet has reached some sort of saturation point? Has growth in the availability of internet access been slowing down in a manner that suggests the leveling out of an S-shaped curve? I see just the opposite happening, with access becoming increasingly available through cell phones, blackberries, and cheap PCs. - pampusik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is all very, very conservative. The rate of change is accelerating. In particular, the technology "s-curves" in the economic section need to begin to shorten (exponentially?) and massively overlap.
- ManoWar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1World beat, just think of the tribal people in Africa the ones that click to speak and stuff when they get there MIT laptops and are able to upload Tracks of there Clicks and clanks. I’m sure some new age hippie would buy it off itunes.
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kansas for President?
- JazzFlight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It says on the chart:
Early Advance, Early Decline, Late Advance, Late Decline. - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... So wait the slaves weren't freed?
- skeptical1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Very impressive. I found the sin and exponential wave patterns to be most interesting. Anyone that doubted the phrase "History repeats itself," this bring an interesting view, huh? This only confirms the predictability of the human race.
My hat off to Peter von Stackelburg. Well done, sir. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They failed to mention the elective prosthetic industry, I want lab grown super organs.
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People are browsing at work or at school and the system admins have not allowed flash or anything else installed so there are no distractions like digg to keep you from working. Get a thumb drive with your own browser on it. Its an easy fix.
- uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The slavery items were wrong as well. Funny how people are brainwashed by revisionist history.
- Splotto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THANKS! That little low res zoom window was annoying.
- hugmenot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0High speed trains are a big thing in the rest of the developed word.
- itomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whither the Pirates?
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought that was republican for "hip hop".
- pastedescape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no no no... make it into a coffee cup... that's so much cooler. plus you can take it with you
- wintermute1974, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What exactly does flash give us in this example that we don't already have?
My web browser can zoom in and out (scaling images appropriately) and can pan images in any direction in full-screen mode. As far as I can tell, that's all this flash wrapper does to a static image.
Interesting info, but no digg as this flash wrapper isn't interactive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is so fake, everybody knows that the world is going to end in 2013.
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Right Click->Zoom in
- lobsang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The problem is not the use of flash, but the unnecessary use of it. The presentation could have been done in a better way, using other technologies (think Google maps scroller), or even with a BIG PNG or PDF file that you could download, print, etc. Flash in this case, just made things annoying and slow. It has nothing to do with standards.
- eliotmat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Interesting stuff.
- devilish, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Very cool --- but what do the E.A., E.D, L.A. and L.D labels mean? What trend is that?
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