December 15th, 2008

What Will The Next Internet Be Like ?

Forget your laptop, buy a eee-PC and a web-mobile phone – are there still people who haven’t ?

Found on Pew / Internet, a report on how Internet will be in 10 years’ time and how we are going to use it. The good news is that you will officially surf from behind your office Proxy – it’s work time, so what? – and you will all switch to open-source unless you want to keep on giving your money away to counter IP Lawyers.

- The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020

- The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness

- Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020

- Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment

- The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations

- “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch

Not much surprise for Geeks like you but worth a look anyway, you can download the full report here (Via Pew/Internet)

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