THE FUTURE
01.23.2012 Normally, I would reserve that headline for something prophetic, touching, or just abstain from it's use altogether.
"One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share."
If Gibson (him, again) taught me anything, it's that making sweeping claims about 'the future' is closer to masturbation than clarity.
"Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere."
But then you find a post mounting the very spine of the next decade.
The Pirate Bay has a new category. (Emphasis mine.)
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years."