Twenty years ago I never dreamed I would be able to sit in my living room and, with a few (or a lot of) keystrokes on a keyboard, be able to communicate with people from all over the world! Just in the last few months I have 'talked' with people from Singapore, Thailand, England, Switzerland, Brazil, Tokyo, Nova Scotia, and South Africa - just to name a few! All while sitting here in suburban Detroit. This world is rapidly shrinking. What do you think it will be like 20 years from now?

Actually, we're all heading over to your place tomorrow ... we can discuss the future then. Drinks are on Searambler beer: ;)

beer: Wooohooo...... I'll bring the chips and salsa....

Great! Come on down. My liquor cabinet is pretty well stocked, and I'll have other drinks available for the non-imbibers!!! w: beer: party:

Par-ty! Pa-rty! Par-ty! party: beer: party: beer:

ok, lets organise this event properly, otherwise it could turn into chaotic gatecrashed nightmare.

I suggest we block off both ends of the street, with Mike's men manning the roadblocks. This way we can use the blocked off street as a carpark.

I've rung the Las Vegas Moulon Rouge girls, and they're available with Cussler as an added bonus!



If anyone else has ideas for the big day at Searamblers, let's hear them ...

Ya know, if y'all can't make it, just send the girls and Clive! beer:

Paul

Paul I can make it and I'll bring bunches of home brew. beer: beer:

I LOVE home made beer. A friend makes a cherry stout that is awesome, as well as a pumpkin beer that is better than anything in the stores. Bring it on over!!! beer:

Let me know what kind and were good to go!

Someone had to mention "homebrew" !!

That triggered a thirsty gatecrasher to jump over the roadblock :o

Luckily, Mike's men wern't lazing about reading books!

I'll bring all the seafood you guys can eat--though if Searambler's liquor cabinet is as full as claimed, no one will be doing much eating.
And save one of those gals for me and promise not to tell my wife, as I'm not bringing her if they're going to be there. :P

I'll put my order in for some Sea Urchin and Soft Shell Crab kel:

Searambler, now you tell me you can organise a party! ;)

Well, Lat, I just posted an innocent question about where y'all think the internet will be in 20 years, and THIS is what happened! :lol: Besides, after seeing the huge success of the party you threw for Papa Jim, I realize that I am not in your league at all. Great job there! th:

Paul

Holograms. There's your answer! We'll all be holograms. With flying cars.

On a more serious note, it is indeed amazing how fast technology has advanced in the last couple of decades or so. At the rate it seems to be going, my above suggestion, which was in jest, may be closer to the truth than we could have thught!

I have the same thoughts! incredible!!!! It's so cool!

Count me in for the party!

We can ride around in the Humvee and I'll bring some alligators (6 feet okay?) for entertainment.

On my way ;)

And hey you can't have a good party without some good tunes th:

Of course I'll bring some entertainment for the ladies kel:

Count me also in, but not for the Chippendals... ;)

That sounds cool!!! :)

Alright Kelly, Count me in. Chippendales! Yahoooooo! th:

Boy, it sure doesn't take much to get THIS crowd into a party mood!! beer: :)
My original question still stands: where do you think the internet will be in 20 years? Holograms (as Foss Gly mentioned) could be a reality. Video phone contact thru our computers is practically here. You can buy virtually anything on line today. Grocery shopping via computer, with home delivery? Why not?

What else?

Virtual Reality? <_<

Before I moved back to my parents I was unable to get to the store so I did all my grocery shopping online th:

Maybe we'll just have to voice commands and the computer will do it....no typing needed! :unsure:

They make refrigerators with Internet access so you can order groceries and look up recipes. :blink:

Also pretty neat is the microvave oven with the barcode reader and internet connection--scan the product you want to cook, it seaches the net for the appropriate product and it tells the microwave how long to cook.

That's pretty cool. I've heard they are working on scanners for grocery stores which can scan the whole cart in a second, so you don't have to individually place each item on the counter to be scanned. Now if they could just figure out a way to bag the whole cart as fast !!

It ia amazing, 8 years ago I was playing Doom in extra slow motion and today my games run faster than my eyes can keep up. I love the technology. Who would have thought 10 years ago you could hook up a micro camera today and look at your house through your computer know matter where you are on the planet

20 years from now.... we will all be in hibernation in Cryogyn Tubes because of nuclear winter we all needed to be frozen to survive.

will there be a need for us lowly little humans in 20 years? they say what we don't use we lose. What will we look like then? Will we evolve to something we won't even look like today? :lol:

Loren1 !!!! yike: There would be no kids to keep us going :o Unless the computers can create the kids for those who are lazy. As far as i can see in the future computers will be using crystals and we will be able to talk with computers. I can't wait to name my first "talking computer". And eventually we will be able to transport ourselves by beaming our bodies from place to place. Beam me up, Scottie!!

What was ever decided about the party at Searambler's? ...

The party was awesome OkieMan, unfortunatley the homebrew was a littler stronger than we were used too and no-one can really remember anything :o


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Several of the voices in my head remem-no I don't think that really happened!
Although it would explain a lot around here.




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Ten years ago I worked at a multi-national company. We had internal e-mail. E-mail to the parent company was collected by one person, and mailed once or twice a day. Today a company can not operate without most staff having e-mail and Internet access.