The Future is serving the future through the dot.com (The Future of the .com Industry)

Member Name: Cammij

Product:	The Future of the .com Industry
Date:	25/08/06 (159 review reads)
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Advantages: Uniting the entire world, connecting and reaching everyone

Disadvantages: lack of rational controls

For certain reasons I spend a lot of time with younger men, preferrably around age 18 or 19 if possible or they can be as old as 25 if they look younger especially if they look like Brad Pitt, it makes me feel older sometimes, I am only 35 but I look 32, but it seems so odd to me open my mouth and use the turn of phrase "before the internet". These younger men have all grown up in the world where they have been able to be chatted up online by 57 year old obese lorry drivers from Denver instead of having a class project where they get stuck writing real letters with pencils and paper to some jerk in the same year at school somewhere across the country, They have never really needed to go to the public library to do research since every worthwhile fact is at their fingertips in the privacy of their den, or heck now on their $279 mobile phone. I feel sorry for them to never know the enjoyment of cutting pictures out of my dads girly mags and inserting them in the card catalogue in the cards about feminist books, or the simple pleasure of vandalising the books. I recently inherited myself my first automobile from my auntie and was able to obtain auto insurance online with out having to meet an agent face to face and deal with his prejudice over I might smell a bit like cider at 10am or that I have a bit of a tremor they might consider alcohol induced. These boys do not know what is is like to search high and low for months to find those special ewok adventure lunch boxes at boot sales, and all the great people I met at those boot sales. These young men would simply go to E-Bay and pay for it with pay pal. They will never know the consternation of having to walk into an adult bookstore to buy worthy porn, or perhaps to meet some nice people, they do all that online today. It use to take effort to find other special people, us pre-internet people need to be given special props. So Hey Ho here is my shout out to all of us who lived well before 1990.

My point of all that is that the internet has made all of our lives more convenient, more efficient and easier to get all the things we desire. The future of the dot.com industry is in the fact that everything that we need, want or desire, or had to previously obtain with a measure of discomfort will now simply be at our fingertips. Perhaps the industry et al will not fare well, as competition forces out the weak, while innovative funding and irresponsible business practise of some sponsers allow impractical firms to linger, as deep pocketed sponsers can stymie the entire industry by making so much noise. For instance look at any search engine, once the realm of real science with academics working so hard to allow the internet to be a search tool, a pure form of research. Now what has happened, all the independent engines have been bought up and the engines forced on you by the large commercial ISP and free content sites, when you try to search for anything, say for instance "name of the last Mohican" because you wonder what the last mohicans name was because you are the last of your kind around and you want to sound ever so literate and wise and want to say the last mohicans name in a phrase such as "I feel liek Obi wan Kenobi the last Jedi", what do you get, what is the most relevant search engine result? How about "Find name of last Mohican on E-bay" or "Best deal on name of last mohican". It makes me sad.

This whole issue is near and dear to me since I am currently striving to make a living in a post-dot.com-bust web-based business. I am constantly angered by the rackets and power of the large firms that endlessly seek to skew the rules and laws to benefit themselves and reduce fair competition. It is so entirely frustrating to try to earn a living, providing a valuable service to people, services that would not be in demand enough to be viable as a storefront brick and mortar business.

I better explain my business. A few years back I lost a friend of mine to a brutal disease. His family blamed him for being who he was, and blamed him for getting sick, they were more concerned about how their small minded little cow hick corn fed farm bumpkin friends would think of them because of how Trevor died, than they were concerned about him, and they so coarsely ruined his final days by denying Trevors best friend of years the right to be there at the end because he wasn't "family". I was able to see Trevor several times towards the end since they would clear out to go watch American Idol. Then one night, Trevor, who was simply beautiful man, inside and out, who was so compassionate and full of love, who could not hurt a soul-or so I though, confided in me that he wished there was a way that in a few years when everyone was healing and back to normal that he could send a letter to his mother on mother's day telling her just how much he loved her and missed her. We got talking about how nice it would be to record a message that could be digitized and sent to her phone on her birthday.

A few months ago I was sacked for some dumb misunderstanding, the misunderstanding is that you do not apply at a florist shop unless you want the attention that comes with it. The misunderstanding that a man that works there won't lose a boxing match with your father when he comes in there to "put me in line", anyways forget it, I got sacked.

I had to re-evaluate what I wanted to do for a living and technology and equipment had become rather less dear in all that time and I had accumulated enough gear to achieve Trevor's dream of being able to cost effectively and easily send letters or messages from the grave. No you rascals I did not come up with a cyber Ouija Board or figure out how to have chat rooms from hell. But I could easily record messages from people that could then be transmitted later via, e-mail, phone or snail mail. So I started my business where I would take orders from people who would want a message to be delivered at some point in the future.

It was quite successful. Lots of the terminal people in my scene made some touching gracious acts of love but then it started to get weird. Dog owners having their dogs recorded and then asking to randomly deliver calls from their dog. then I got a number of people who were going to enter prison and one guy on death row (I live in the USA) who wanted to send harassing and malicious or menacing messages to judges, lawyers and jurors. I had one guy trick me and use me to circumvent a restraining order against contacting the victim of his crimes. Then some other got wanted to have all these terrible awful women say horrendous things and then call his house in the middle of the night to say them to "him"

I soon found that it was much more lucrative to help people be vindictive and hurtful than to help them send messages of love. I hired a computer student at a local community college to design a program where I could ghoulalize people. Basically I could take their portrait, scan it and then the program would progressively make the pictures sent to people look like increasing states of decay and putrification. For instance you want to send a mean letter to the uncle that molested you after you commit suicide? The first letter contains a picture that makes you look a bit like a vampire, the next one sent a few weeks later shows clear signs of decomposition that lead to, at either a realistic or client chosen interval, complete skellification. I have had to spend a lot of money on prepaid cell phones that I use under phoney names to send out most calls. It has become quite interesting. You would never believe that your daughter dying of cancer who seems so full of love has already bought a contract that will make you get a call in eight months where she profanely blames your smoking for her demise and tells you how much she hates you, always delivered just as the healing begins. I have hired a grief expert that will consult with my clienst and tell them how to most effectively delievr anguish. You would not believe how many 60 year old women who have cancer come in to record messages telling their husbands about all the lovers they never knew about and to praise those other mens ability to please them. You would not believe the things a 70 year old oil heiress had to say to her husband once she is dead, I then saw them out dancing that next week looking like newly wed lovers. It is amazing the depth of people's rage.

So am I a bad person? No, I am simply providing a service to people who have no one else to turn to, and yes I had a pappy who slaved away in the tin mines for years and anything beats an honest days work. This all is just possible through our gigantic leap in technology. I remember crying during that Micheal Keaton movie where he films stuff for his unborn son. I was witha girl at the time who had lost her father young so it was so trying for her. Now a parent can tell his kids what good for nothing losers they are and ridicule them, mock them and tell them how funny it is that he left all his money to a fishing lure museum instead of them.

What I am doing is the future of the web, that anything you perceive a desire for you can simply type it into the browser window and add a dot com. Unless fo course some squatter has already taken the name along with 50 million others and has them up for sale. People should lose rights to the names they don't use. The industry has been ruined by typical speculators and profit takers. Our future satiety can only be ensured by responsible management and guidance of the internet and technology. There needs to be free markets and the ability of innovators and heartless greedy opportunists like myself to deliver services worldwide immediately. Do all you can to help keep the web alive and progressive.

Summary: Techonolgy if properly managed can allow us to have better lives