Musings of a Web Programmer

So I was just thinking that... Facebook is to forums as Twitter is to chat rooms as Tumblr is to the contemporary web.
Meaning:
On Facebook, you can have a thread on a topic (based on a post or status msg), just like a forum.
Whereas to follow a tweeted discussion of a topic would be like trying to do the same in a chatroom, except with Twitter you're most likely to be reading that conversation in reverse chronological order.
While Tumblr makes it easy for ANYone to have their own website with their own content... but then, that's everywhere: so many of today's web apps enable end users to collect, maintain, manipulate and distribute diverse digital content (Facebook, Twitter, and blogspot, for instance).
Content management systems.

And now it's looking like touch screen tablets may soon supplant the laptop for lay use; power users will still need, i think, the desktop style computer terminal and its keyboard for at least another half century (50 years is an arbitrary, rather uneducated guess).

What will come after that? I still believe it's only a matter of time before the computer enters the body; a separate screen will no longer be needed: it will broadcast images and messages straight to our consciousness. Close your eyes and imagine that.

Dream Log

I had a dream last night that I had somethin my eye. It didn't seem to bother me but it was obstructing my vision... I looked in the mirror and I could it there, but I was reluctant to try to remove it. My eye loomed large. The foreign object seemed sinister. I don't remember if I removed it...

Mr. Rodney Lee Jones Jr.