Saturday, September 03, 2005

Predictions of future coming true

When John Titor posted in 2000 that internet in the future would be wireless like cell phones and that cameras would be digital, few saw a future where both would come together.

His uncanny accuracy is one reason that people wonder if he really was who he said he was. Most people in 2000 saw digital cameras as these over-priced gizmos with dull fuzzy horrible photos - worse than a $4.95 throw away film camera. The thought that video would be streamed over the air seemed absurd.

In fact, now there are Wi-Fi Cameras with an IP address that can stream video live to the internet. You can be thousands of feet away from the hotspot and not be tied down to a line. Things have come a long way since the old webcams over a 56K telephone line that had to be connected to a PC.

Well, he predicted that stability in the west would end, expect that to happen soon.

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