What new idea can you think of to revolutionize internet and/or entertainment technology?
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i would network every thing and have it so i could connect to my email...from my car tv even in a bus stop .having data on demand is great and should be avalible to everyone as well as free internet for every one ...check ou wht bill gates has to say
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Computer, as long as it has the internet. Email, news, videos, music, games, chat... what's not to love???
1035966
wow. brilliant idea, it will revolutionize the world and make you richer than Bill Gates. I wonder why nobody else came up with it before.
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1). Computers (People don't realize how much we take computers for granted these days. Because computers are able to store, create, and distribute important data, one might think what would happen if we cut computers from the world today).\n\n2). Television (Most people have at least a TV that is used for entertainment, business, and also media interaction. Nowadays, all people have to do is "flip a switch" to connect to the world).\n\n3). Wireless Networking (People have gone from cables to wireless so fast, that it's so easy to forget that dialup and cable cords even existed. With this ability, people can travel with devices such as cell phones, laptops, and PDA's that require just wireless service).\n\n4). The Internet (Through computers, comes the Internet, though they are very different sources. The Internet, which holds any data permanently, can be accessed by anyone, good and bad altogether and regardless of location).\n\n5). Space Technology (It's hard to imagine back in the 1700's that man could actually reach the stars. But since the 1900's, the U.S. and international powers have raced one another to the moon. And through that, comes unbelievable discoveries and can even define why and how we humans live today).
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The internet.\n\nElectricity.\n\nRadio.  (including television, satellite, etc.)\n\nMoveable type/printing presses.\n\nA couple ideas, I may add more later...
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-07-27: No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs: \nLeonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets of data can be "routed" from one place to another based on address information carried in the data, much like the address on a letter. Packet switching replaces the older concept of "circuit switching," in which an actual electrical circuit is established all the way from the source to the destination. Circuit switching is the idea behind traditional telephone exchanges. \n\nJ.C.R. Licklider was the first to describe an Internet-like worldwide network of computers, in 1962. He called it the "Galactic Network." \n\nLarry G. Roberts created the first functioning long-distance computer networks in 1965 and designed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the seed from which the modern Internet grew, in 1966. \n\nBob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which moves data on the modern Internet, in 1972 and 1973. \n\nBy 1983, TCP was the standard and ARPANET began to resemble the modern Internet in many respects. The ARPANET itself was taken out of commission in 1990. Most restrictions on commercial Internet traffic ended in 1991, with the last limitations removed in 1995. \n\nFor a much more complete history, see the web site of the Internet Society. \n\nNote that the Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same thing. See also: who invented the World Wide Web?, What is the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet? and See also Hobbes' Internet Timeline for another excellent history of the Internet which includes later important events. \n\nNOTE TO STUDENTS: THE INTERNET WAS NOT INVENTED BY ONE PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE. THERE IS NO ONE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE. I get a lot of email about this. If I gave you just one name, my answer would be completely wrong. Writing down one name on a test will probably get you a bad grade. If your teacher says that one person invented the Internet, show them this page. And don't forget, the Internet and the World Wide Web are NOT the same thing. See What is the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
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Life would be very different. You wouldn't even be able to ask that question online. Maybe people would spend less time on the computer though. Maybe more people would go outside and exercise and really enjoy life. But at the same time, people from across the world wouldn't be able to converse. Also, we wouldn't be able to play many of those online games. We wouldn't have email. AAHH. or instant messanger. We'd have to write letters. I think life is better with the internet.
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Wireless devices will be everywhere. The phone, camera, and computer will merge with the internet. Vast databases of information will store, calculate, and notate every change everywhere. We will lose more privacy because of satellite imaging and web cameras. I know communications will become "one touch" access. The way we communicate will make the biggest changes. Look at what engineers have accomplished so far. Electronics is communication.
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I think thats a very interesting thought and you should get 10 points for it. Innovation. We do everything online. Why not vote online.\n\nAWSOME\n\nJohn
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You can talk about slingbox (product that allows people to record videos at home and then sent it to your laptop anyway in the world).\n\nPerhaps you can find a way to relate this technology to telecommunications by recording home video and sending video emails to someone's laptop.  Now there is a million dollar idea!
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Oh my!  The computer and the Internet have totally revolutionized my life!!\n\nI actually have a social life now, online, which before I did not, because I am homebound and often bedridden.  There is an entire world at my fingertips.  A library, the worlds largest shopping mall, all the friends a person could want, information for every need, I have a life now!!\n\nI know that many tens of thousands and more of people like me feel totally liberated by the internet.  Also, I love to read, but my vision is too poor to read most books, but if they are in digital format, I can increase the light and fontsize to where I can read it comfortably, and dont have to hold a book or turn pages.\n\nAnd on top of it all, I met my hubby online, can keep in contact with my kids and grandkids and parents, all of whom live in another country.\n\nIt's been an awesome thing in my life.
1140871
But I thought you invented the internet. Shouldn't you know a little more about computers?
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I was going to say the internet would be one of the choices, but I believe that was invented before 96(if your only going 10 years back). Therefore, the only thing invention I can think of that has been a cultural phenomenon is an iPod. The ability to carry thousands of songs on a tiny little ipod, instead of using a bulking CD player that only lets you have one cd at a time, is an amazing invention.
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Technology of the future.\n\nGuranteed by the richest man in the world.
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In the creation of the internet? I think the old arpanet was pretty impressive, and it directly led to the creation of the internet.
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I believe it will take a similar course as electronics and computer technology over the past century, with some of the same benefits as well as consequences.\n\nFirst, don't expect miracles.  Remember people were expecting robots to do and know virtually everything by 2000.  We have progressed a long way, but that was just unrealistic.  I predict nanotechnology within the next 20 years will be comparable to electronics before the discovery of the transistor.\n\nWithin 50 years, I predict something similar to the dot.com boom/bomb.  There will be some very amazing advancements which will spur investment into all kinds of faulty business models.  In the end, a lot of people will lose money but things will settle out at a higher economic level.\n\nAnd as nanotech gets into the hands of common folks, "hackers" will emerge.  I could only make wild guesses on what kind of hacking that would be, but it will be there.  I guarantee that.  Perhaps we will all need to install genetic firewalls to prevent hackers from hijacking our brains! :)
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I would deregulate the FCC.  Place tight limits on the export of technology, and move for more open information flow.  Also eliminate the Patriot Act and other policies that may infringe on personal rights.