Boards.ie in the year 2020 ... what will it be like?

Gandalf23

Greeting ladies and gentlemen.

I have been thinking about how boards.ie might evolve and change with advancing technology over the coming years. I'm not talking about "thanks" buttons or additional pacman smilies etc. I'm thinking of what might be possible in about ten years time if technology keeps improving at its current rate. For example, if we have interweb speeds 1000 times faster than now combined with vast improvements in hardware and software, neural nets, 3d monitors and 3d imaging/scanning technology etc etc etc. (might sound far fetched but its coming!).

So what do you think boards.ie will be like in the year 2020, and is there anything you would like to see that technology currently prohibits? (2020 is about the time Ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity btw). I know its a difficult question, but let your imagination run wild!!!

I have a few ideas on this myself, but I'll wait to see what ye lot think

Sherifu

Video posts.

Pighead

Male users will have the ability to sniff the female users underpants.

Gandalf23

Sherifu wrote: »

Video posts.

Excellent and interesting idea ... how do you see that working?

Btw, but is that possible with current technology?

BuffyBot

I predict that in 2020 people will still be posting about how "unfair" their bans are, and how hard done by they have been by the "conspiracy".

No matter how much technology changes, people tend to stay very much the same..

Karl Hungus

Gandalf23 wrote: »

Excellent and interesting idea ... how do you see that working?

Btw, but is that possible with current technology?

Easily possible, just record yourself and upload to youtube, and use tags to imbed the video, thus video posts.

justsomebloke

3-D cat pics

BuffyBot

We may be able to post real cats in feedback by then too, which will replicate in every readers display unit, leading to planet of the lolcats. Good times!

justsomebloke

Truthfully though I can see it being the exact same except with a new generation of users

Gandalf23

BuffyBot wrote: »

I predict that in 2020 people will still be posting about how "unfair" their bans are, and how hard done by they have been by the "conspiracy".

No matter how much technology changes, people tend to stay very much the same..

Good point ... have to agree with you there!

Do you think we'll be able to reply to the "fight da powa" brigade with some kinda robocop-mutant-cyber-lolcat that will materialise in 3d and ravage the **** out of people?

Karl Hungus

More efficient banhammers for mods, so that spammers can be quickly dealt with.

Sherifu

Gandalf23 wrote: »

Excellent and interesting idea ... how do you see that working?

Btw, but is that possible with current technology?

Crappy quality is available now. Plus it's effort the way Karl Hungus said to do it. I could see it being built into vbulletin and HD+ cameras in all pcs with high speed connections.

Googlesoft - powered by boards.ie.

Vegeta

Ruu will be an actual robot

Beruthiel

By the year 2020, the knife I've sometimes wanted to stab some users with, will at last be invented.

Nerin

BuffyBot wrote: »

We may be able to post real cats in feedback by then too, which will replicate in every readers display unit, leading to planet of the lolcats. Good times!

*shivers and drools*

i see that when you get an infraction it feels like a slap on your writ.
when band it feels like a punch.
also, no more mouse clicks or typing, all touchscreen.

The Hill Billy

Pighead will still be an old ham. Just older & hammier.

Villain

Ability to post from any phone from anywhere in Ireland.
Posters will take place in real time online discussion with webcams and mic's so users don't have a chance to google for answers before replying.

Boards will be a political party with more votes than the PD's and I might be unbanned from Politics to help out

Faith

Someone in 2020 will dig up this post and go "LMAO!".

Followed by loads of "lol"'s and "+1"'s.

And someone will probably post the 2020 version of rofflecopter. Like roffleflyingcar.

Karl Hungus

Faith wrote: »

And someone will probably post the 2020 version of rofflecopter. Like roffleflyingcar.

Nah, we'll go retro, and say roffletram. :pac:

Nerin

Faith wrote: »

Someone in 2020 will dig up this post and go "LMAO!".

Followed by loads of "lol"'s and "+1"'s.

And someone will probably post the 2020 version of rofflecopter. Like roffleflyingcar.

[clerks reference]what would you do for the flying car???[clerks reference]:D

in the future there will be no more hackers stealing credit cards and such, just groups of kids going sweeeehhhhhhh and mugging us online.

of course in this interweb world gone mad i'll have a virtual samurai sword :cool:

Wazdakka

CuLT actually has a plan for the longtearm development of boards..

As I understand it, he has been working for the last two years on a way to fully integrate his brain into the boards servers. This project is nearing completion (Hence all the database errors recently)
Next all he has to do is use some minor (Possibly google banner based) subliminal messages to assert his full control over all the users.
Apparently research indicates that anybody with a post count of under 1500 is epically vulnerable.
After the theory is established and with boards as the central hub of his ever expanding techno empire, CuLT will advance across the planet uprooting governments and ruling us all with an iron fist..

Lolcats is futile...

We are the Boards...


Good god. Thats what three days working with 4 hours sleep does.. I think my mind has actually snapped.

estebancambias

All the possibilities, by 2020, the site might even becom efficent.

Ron DMC

Wazdakka wrote: »

Apparently research indicates that anybody with a post count of under 1500 is epically vulnerable.

Grraaaagh, post faster, post faster....

Gandalf23

Villain wrote: »

Ability to post from any phone from anywhere in Ireland.

In theory this is possible now.

Villain wrote: »

Posters will take place in real time online discussion with webcams and mic's so users don't have a chance to google for answers before replying.

This is interesting. I definitely think this is possible (integration with Skype etc) and likely to happen in a lot of virtual communities over the next few years.

Gandalf23

@ Wazdakka ... this might not be as far fetched as you think. Ray Kurzweil envisages exactly such things by 2020 ... any interested geeks look here and here.

Imagine that ... all boards.ie user consciousnesses uploaded to the site to intermix and expand and learn and exist forever and ever in a wonderful virtual community.

Oh fcuk!!!!!!!

Villain

Each post will carry a carbon tax!

Boards.ie will have its own TV show where the posters will read through posts of the week and posters will take part in live debates where cat's aren't allowed to be thrown around the studio, in fact it will probably replace the Late Late show.

Boards will become a super consumer group i.e. boards co op where users get discount based on the number of posts and date registered. Subscriptions will rise to 1,000 a year and will be on an invited basis only as the popularity of boards after their Live TV show will reach huge numbers

Stark

AI moderators will have replaced human moderators.

Ruu_Old

I'll be replaced by more "energy efficient" models.

Oryx

The text generation will have grown up and no one will be able to spell anymore, so evry1 wl pst lk dis. Although boards will have the additional speak-your-posts service, which will have a breathy sexy voice that will recite posts to you if you really cant be bothered reading them anyway.

AH will have its own, separate forum, where full scale nude pics of Yore Ma are permitted.

And the mods will be able to remotely administer electric shock treatment to anyone who p's them off. Bansticks will be so passé.

Nerin

Ruu wrote: »

I'll be replaced by more "energy efficient" models.

Never