Loverboyfan420

I have a little inside knowledge, and from what i hear the internet is on the way out. its going to be replaced with more bio-oriented applications. So if youve put all your eggs in one basket, get out now before the new wave leaves you obsolete. keep this on the down low

GatorEng23

Damn! When I was just getting the hang of it.

frasifrasi

So the internet is being replaced with bio-oriented applications and hence cs majors should get out of the industry?!?!!? That doesn't make any sense user. I can see if you say that computer engineering is drifting towards nano technology, but programming and computer interface are not affected by this specific trend, so the cs field will still hinge on its typical fashion.

If you are a troll, this is a good joke, though.

racnna

Lmao!!!!!...w*t*f?

quicksilver40133

Yes, we will replace computers with bio-engineered chimps. Man, get a life.

orchdorkbando

Yeah, by posting it on an internet forum?

chuy

The Dallas Mavericks owner (yes, basketball) came out and said something sort of along these lines. He is also an idiot.

iloveagoodbrew

wth is this nonsense

ClassicRockerDad

I was recruiting at MIT a few years ago and this woman student walked up to me, shook my hand and told me in a totally straight face that she plans to build the first computer made from entirely living tissue! Well, as a big fan of the original Terminator movie, I cracked a joke, but she was serious and didn't get it.

I went to the washroom and washed my hands as soon as politely possible! LOL

BedHead

Though the OP's post was apparently meant a little tongue-in-cheek, two trends have been converging in development really quickly at a few centers: CMU, MIT, Berkeley, CalTech, Stanford, and some other places in Japan and Switzerland: "jacking" devices into the neural networks of folks who can essentially develop the ability to control them through thought, and robotics-cum-artificial intelligence.

So it's not completely bio yet by any stretch, but bio-electronic/digital interfaces are being developed, and may be that much more robust when bio-based computers are developed by ClassicRockerDad's friend at MIT; the internet could then literally become part of someone's body (assuming the immune system doesn't reject it, tee hee) and computer science as we know it would become largely irrelevant or perhaps better to say greatly changed.

The big problem that's been run into with rough prototypes so far has been that a huge percentage of the undergrad/grad researchers that have volunteered to have computers-on-a-chip plugged right into their nervous systems have failed academically (and in one case outright died). No one's really sure exactly what they were "tapping" into on the internet, but all of these volunteers were men and they were often going blind, growing very thin, and spending a lot of time in the bathroom whence one could hear moaning.

If you meet one of these volunteers, best go with what CRD did after meeting the geek-girl.

peck191

no more internet? oh the humanity!

toxic_waste

if the internet is going out, then what's web 2.0 for?

aarosurf

ah, this makes me feel better about studying biomedical engineering

pearlygate

You don't have large outside idiocy but you're telling me that the bio-tech engineering is on the way in? So It's not going to be kept with less cs-oriented theorem. Because if I put none of my chicken in every basket, I need to get in later after the old wave welcome me anew. Spread this up everywhere!

smart young man

steevee

I always said that the Interweb is overhyped!