The Future of the Internet...or whatever will be after the Internet....

[RandomAnthony]

One of my relatives works for Google, and he seems happy (although he logs insane hours), but no company lasts forever, and this article about another search engine caught my eye...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-sty...

The article describes a new, well, I almost don't know how to describe it...a search engine that uses natural language, I guess. If I'm understanding the article correctly. I don't know.

It's easy to forget that this whole internet thing...twenty years ago...1989...was just gettin' started. Remember dial-up? I do. Waiting for the phone to connect, those sounds the computer would make while connecting...good riddance. Can you imagine where technology will take us in twenty years? Forty years? One hundred years?

I sure as hell can't.

What do you think?

[Cosmic Sher]

Ooh cool! I'll have to read about this later when I'm not so sleepy, i.e. brain dead, but I love seeing the new trends come out that may have huge rippling effects. Thanks RA!

[Kevin]

this seems sort of like (here ya go jackie) the computer on star trek (original) as they used to be able to ask it queries and what-if type questions. things that we now know would not be keyword crawls

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

It was only a matter of time, then, if it was on Star Trek, Kevin.

:::considers doing her hair in a beehive:::

[Kevin]

fantastico profile pic jackie!

yup, i agree. soon we will all be wearing tan, blue, red or gold spandex shirts and stunning each other with phasers

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

We'll all have to avoid wearing red for awhile when that happens.

[Kevin]

i am getting a shirt made that says:

LLAP

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Hopefully with the hand gesture as well?

[Kevin]

i LOVE that you are with me on that

[Lori]

Is anyone else wondering whether they should buy some stock? :D

[Sally, la reina]

Absolutely.

[Félix]

To be honest, about all I can do is think about it.

[Kevin]

i have and am buying more. nothing absurd like selling the family Edsel but i am tired of leaving it all in someone else's hands. if i go down, it will be by my own hand LOL

[Sally, la reina]

What's crazy is that some of us came of age during that time, RA, and so now we're defining the world in terms of social networking web 2.0 application thingies.

(To go back to the first post, sorry; I'm catching up today.)

[Lori]

Heh I just sent the link to my financial advisor. I'll let you all know what she says. It would be nice to be just a bit profitable after our retirement fund got sent to the cleaners.

[Kevin]

mine got send to the cleaners and came back shrunk