I’m trying to figure out what this might be the age of — like Bronze Age or Information Age. Is it the Age of Ubiquity? The Age of Connection? Dunno.
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Hmmm…..the Age of Connectivity?
The Age of Sound Bites, maybe.
Given that the “Baby Boomers” are getting up in years … The Age of Aging 😉
Connection and information have been around a long time. It seems to take less time for the jump at the synapse, but then what is time really anyway? I’m thinking it is the Digital Age. The mode of transport for dialog and information has changed. It’s still mechanics. I bet there really is an Age of Connection in the future.
About the net neutrality: I’ve thought about Netflix. I get the dvds in the mail and also watch online. I like Hulu, too, as my way to watch TV. I don’t watch HD; so I have a long way to go to get close to the current limits on some (not my) connections. But, if it gets a damper put on it, I’m just shifting more to the reading time, just like you said, Nate. There are lots of ebooks at my library, as well as the purchase now and then of those from my favorite authors.
You talk about the change in manufacturing – what do you think of the development of 3D printing and projects like the RepRap? Will we even bother with the big wired – or wireless – networks, when the growth of 1TB and 2TB USB hard drives means sneakernet can make a comeback? And we can send around our plans for objects to manufacture in our “replicators” that easily? I know, via dial-up and sneakernet, files often made it from the East to the West Coast in a matter of a week back in the BBS days.