Ubiquitous universal access

"May you live in interesting times..." so goes the old Irish curse. We've been cursed. We have commited the sin of pandora, or at least some of us have. Perhaps it was our leaders for allowing to many too build too much, perhaps it was the corporate overlords for blindly persuing profit, power and preemminence. Perhads it was all of us for harboring secrect fantasies of unlinited access to pornography, gambling, political voice os money. The simple fact is that we opened pandoras box and let everything out. Music will be free and available to all, at a price. Knowledge will be free and accessible to all, but at a price. Universal access to all for all at a price. You see, once the competitive engine is running for long enough it begins to become "Market driven". I remember getting involved with a company that marketed a unit in competition to the "WebTV". While it turned out to be a scam it was interesting trying to sell internet access to the americian public in 1997. The was a benign suspicion regarding the internet and computers in general. That was nine years ago. Now dell is advertising a $299 computer and 60% of americian homes have high speed internet access. Remember VCR's? Remember when the finially came DOWN to $299? Now their so cheap that there no longer worth selling. This is where we are at now.
The future is blooming like a geometric virus. Fuelcells are racing at us with the promise of week long batteries for the laptops that are going to be outmoded by UMPC's (Ultra Mobile Personal Computers). The unit I'm on right now, the cingular 8125, is pretty much a complete, if cramped solution being my telephone (two line), and my personal computer (somewhat limited but fully functional). There is also the rapidly approching dawn of WiMax the ultra-broadband cellular data solution and the spreading vines of Verizon's FIOS network. Within 3 years you will have a smallish portfolio thinner than the one that you carry now that will be your tv, your phone, and your computer. It will be persistantly connected to the internet by a T3 class data cellular data connection and the battery will need to be charged once a week, if at all. The market forces will drive the price of existing laptop computers to below $300 and desktops even less in the mean time. After that, who knows. It can't be stopped now, its market driven. So what will happen to us? In the lurid and unbearable light of information acccess our children are totally sexually conscious. Teen girls have cyber sex with 34 year old lawyers knowingly. Religion is fragmenting. Family is desolving. Myths are dying. This all due to the internet, version 1.0, imagine the effect of internet 2.0.

Warp 7 and no toilet paper...

| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday April 09, @07:41 (Science) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/09/0333234

This is a link to an article that speaks of "the first nanotechnology lawsuit...". I wasn't aware that we where using nanotechnology much less screwing up. Actually it would seem that its an infomercial type product gone awry But if this early in the game we are seeing problems on the road to profit just imagine what the headlines will read like in 2020...
This is a product of simple irresponsability and lack of judgement. I fear that one of the hallmarks of humanities entry into the tech age is the collapse of character, sacrifice and responsibility that the struggle to survive forged in us. Religio.n codified this necessity into a systen of training and inheritance that insured that future generations would have their share of leadership. This is why the religious are more fanatical and religion is dying. The plague of Juvenality maybe the greatest threat to the future of humanity that we will ever face.