aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, December 29, 2006
Wired 2007 predictions
My pics from their predictions:
Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent.
BitTorrent on TiVo Speaking of, digital video recorders get BitTorrent baked in, bringing internet video to the living room.
Spam Doubles No-brainer—but no one cares because we’re all using IM, especially at work.
Second Life Ends a Life Skullduggery in Second Life—probably digital adultery—ends in a real-life murder.
Year o’ the Laptop Half of all new computers sold in 2007 will be laptops and 20 percent of those will be Apple’s MacBooks.
Print to Web A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online. [...]
Apple Goes Apple The entire Beatles catalog is licensed exclusively to iTunes for a year. [...]
Digg Becomes the New Friendster Digg holds out for a big payday but ends up like Friendster (i.e., no friends). [...]
First AT&T, Then Google A whistle-blower reveals that the National Security Agency has been wiretapping Google for some time.
Google Goes G-Man Google gives up search queries to the feds. Likely scenario: The FBI asks who’s been searching for terms like “dirty bomb” and Google hands over all the IP addresses.
Don’t Don’t Be Evil Google drops “Don’t be evil” as its corporate mantra. Evil has its justifications, but no one likes a hypocrite. [...]
They’re Watching You Congress passes a law requiring internet service providers to keep logs of all web traffic and e-mail for three years.
NYT Goes Free The New York Times opens its archives from behind the paid firewall, realizing it’s more lucrative to be the internet’s paper of record than charging readers for individual stories. Thankfully, Thomas Friedman’s clichés and mixed metaphors remain behind the pay firewall for at least two weeks.
MySpace Spaces Out MySpace splinters as teens head for niche sites. New services that control profiles across multiple social networking sites begin to take off.
