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2000:

1. Still on dailup.
2. Pretty much everyone is still stuck on IE.
3. The computer I am using was pretty much only 10 GB in size. I am pretty sure it's window 98.


2005:

1. We finally got rid of dailup and transits to broadband.
2. Firefox already arrived, but it's 1.5.
3. I gotten an upgrade in HD size and other stuff. 40 GB.

2010:

1. Bitcoin is in its infancy.
2. The browser war is in full swing. Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, and others are competing and making the web a better place.
3. My latest computer is still an outdated piece of shit but it is dual core and store 4x the previous computer.

What do you expect from the new decade?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4)

A whole lot more bitcoining. I expect/hope to see a disruptive transformation of our economy in the way we deal with our finance and how we think about money.

The rise of ubitious computing will continue. When we're finished with smartphones(the price of smartphone will drop until it become standard), we will upgrade our cars. At the end of the decade, we will have autonomous cars as part of our daily life. We're also begin equip everything with more computers and internet connections, connecting it more and more.

Cheap 3D printing become an everyday normal thing. Customization and improvement of products increase at a frantic pace.

Regular space launches will be the norm by the end of the decade.

In the next ten years we will see an open source movement for hardware.
One of my favorite projects the RepRap will be able to reproduce itself by the
end of the next decade.   http://www.reprap.org

There will be a movement for homegrown food, selling selfmade stuff etc.

The guys from openfarmtech will have built their first independent village
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/


The truth about the Ufo sightings is finally revealed  ;D 
http://www.ironsky.net/


Bitcoin will take over the fiat currencies....  ;D

We already have an open hardware movement.

well, he means it is going to become mainstream. :P

Who wants an Open Hardware Car, a Microwave, a house?!

"Still"?  LOL, you are young!  Only two years earlier IE's market share was still below 30%.  Microsoft couldn't license Netscape, so they went for their loser, Mosaic.  IE's only success factor was being bundled with Microsoft Windows when a flood of Windows users got access to the Internet.  There were Unix and Mac versions as well until IE 5 (Mosaic had Unix roots), but I don't think IE ever got any share of the market on those platforms.  Netscape was far better than Mosaic, and the first versions of IE was just Mosaic with a Windows logo where the spinning globe would be.

That http://www.reprap.org is AWESOME!

THAT is the future....  We're watching it come about...

Amazing.

That is .

One day we might be able to print our food....

And the market will reduce everything to mere commodity...

Everyone will be reduced to intellectual works.

That, and the homeless will have blankets and foods printed by machines. They can also have an education if they ask for one of those cheap smartphone.

One day we will arrive to a post-scarcity society. It would be really cool as Cory Doctorow describes it; a web of trust.(Search Whuffie if you please)

Each day our advances accelerate. Each day there are more advances. We move in an exponential rate. I am sure this is not far away. Right now, focus on the now, make Bitcoin succeed.

I think I've read that book too!