December 13, 2011 / 10:10PM 20 notes

Imagining 2076 - Connect Your Brain to the Internet →

Optimistic predictions far outpaced negative ones — a wishful view, perhaps, of technology as panacea. The most popular reader-submitted prediction came from Roy in Italy, who wrote that by 2020, “Google will provide everyone with the ability to communicate with everyone else, regardless of the specific language they speak, via their smartphone, with real-time language translation.”

Pushing and pulling dates on the timeline, readers said it would take 65 years to connect our brains to the Internet via Wi-Fi, as D. Moysey of Boston predicted, “granting nearly unlimited memory and communication ability, provided you don’t lose the signal.”

Not all predictions were rosy. In David Gibson’s dystopian view, “humans will become so integrated with electronics that more people will die from computer viruses in a year than from biological viruses.” Readers suggested this would happen about 2170.

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    Optimistic predictions far outpaced negative ones — a wishful view, perhaps, of technology as panacea. The most popular...
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    this is so awesome.
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    Johnny Mnemonic style minus the impressive 80 gigs.
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