New Technologies?

I was wondering what everyone thinks will be the "next great thing".

I remember when people started all these blogs, I didn't think it would be a big deal...boy was I wrong!

The next "great" thing or just the next big fad? I am not saying blogs are fads - personal publishing of the blog sort is exactly what the Web is best for.

The next _great_ thing in the Web will take 20-30 years, and that will be the HTML Renaissance, when HTML gets replaced by a new and different language (possibly called XHTML 2 or a derivative spec) with an extendable set of rich markup. And CSS won't be used.

I can dream...

100 gigabit ethernet. thats what my drumline section leader seems to think anyway. i look for the day when microsoft loses it's stranglehold on the market and most people at least know what linux is.

Ok, good point about being a "fad". lol

Wireless is starting to come on the scene around here. More and more places (other than StarBucks) are offering wireless access.

And, hey, AthenasBane, what's Linux? JK

100 gigabit? Maybe in backbones for big companies, but a home user will never need 100 gigabit connection. Even 1 gigabit is overboard for a home connection, since it will just be used to transfer huge files from one comptuer to another, and how often do you feel the need to transfer raw DVD quality movies from one computer to the next?
...ending of my rant.


But I am not sure what the next fad will be, if I did, I would try and find a way to make money from it, and get rich.
But I do see open source software becoming more and more popular, things like the department of defense telling people they shouldn't be using IE, and should be using firefox, or other browsers instead. Also things like linux and other unix operating systesms, having a better environment then windows, but still being able to have people adapt. Also development in WINE, soon it will be a lot easier to run windows applications painlessly in a linux enviornment.

Did people think we ever needed high-speed when the internet was text only? Nope. New technology is coming out all the time, and it takes more and more space. DVD will most likely be replaced in 20 to 30 years, by some format that can hold millions of GBs. It's hard to foresee in the future, but I can say with reasonable confidence, that file sizes will increase and that will cause hardware to improve.

But 100gigabit is way to huge of a speed. High end backbone internet connections like OC-xx don't even go past a few gigabit connection speeds. Maybe in at least 5-10 years before even 1 gigabit ethernet cards are standard on the average computer.

Hey that may have been my bad, most new routers/switches are 10gb/sec, no? Not 100. Im not sure, this guy i kno, Jonathan, was goin on and on one day about "Internet 2".
So i looked it up and I think it was just guys trying to get either 10base100 or 100base100 connections/networking to go big....? Im really not sure now and I really dont feel like wading through all the pr crap on their site again.

i still think a big jump in connection speed will be the next big thing though....theres probably going to be stuff out there that nobody now has even thought about in 10 years right?

No CSS? ! I doubt that very much.

CSS is actually getting quite old. Hopefully XML will overtake it in 2 to 3 years. CSS/XHTML is so dirty.

what about CSS 3

well.....XML's been around for years (98?) and as yet it still hasn't found a true purpose.....the only thing it's good for is for publishing stuff in different formats....but not for making webpages etc......

but anyways....XML replace CSS?

XML isn't meant to replace anything.....let alone CSS.....so that ain't gonna be happening.....

Maybe he meant XSL. But I doubt even that will ever replace CSS.

CSS is here to stay in my opinion. Which is a good thing I can't wait until CSS 8!!! We'll see what the web will be about then...thats when CSS will render lighting for your Z indeces and there will be another roller on your mouse to go through them.

CSS is a flawed language. But it's also better than any alternatives.

At some point, people will realize that designing for the screen media is silly, and that different Web page designs only hurt the user, compared to the power of a better markup language.