Foresight look to the use of the Internet in the near future.
I foresee
the wider use of the Internet in the future. Home Networks will grow to
encompass the whole house. Where the fridge will send an email to its owner telling
you that you are out of milk and it has purchased it for you, so stop on the
way home and pick it up along with other food items. You will be able to purchase
meals and place them in the oven which will keep them cool until you send it an
email telling it to start cooking. All of your home will communicate with itself
and you over the internet. Your windows will know when to be open or shut based
on your E-glass being clear or opaque. You will be able to monitor your
children at school, on the way home and even while at home. Better and more affordable
security cameras will allow HD quality full color security from your personal
home page (The page you control your home operations from). You will be able to
tell your robotic vacuum cleaner to clean the house while everyone is out, that
way not disturbing anyone but the family cat.
Speaking of the family pet, I see their collars with embedded technology
that will monitor the pet’s health. It will cross reference with your online
day planner and schedule the most convenient time for you to drop off your pet
and get the needed medical attention. Your roof will be covered in 1/10"
high performance solar cells that are controlled by the home server to be at optimum
performance at all times, slightly tilting them to gather more sun. This again
will be linked to the power companies’ computer system allowing for so much
free electricity to enter the grid hence the need to burn coal and oil is
reduced by 90%.
You car will also be on the internet and communicating with your home, your
phone and cars around it on the road. Cars will be able to communicate between
themselves over short distance by way of Wi-Fi signals. This would reduce the
amount of accidents and traffic congestion on our roadways in major cities. By
having cars communicate they could over ride the drivers input to a point and
apply gas and breaks faster or more smoothly allowing for better gas mileage.
When cars however get involved in an accident they will be able to send exact GPS
coordinates to police cars and rescue teams closest to the accident. This would
shorten response times thereby saving many more lives. You car would email you
and your mechanic letting everyone know that the self diagnostics system found
that you need a new belt, a lower radiator hose and probably an oil change. It
will also cross reference with your online day planner and schedule the most
convenient time for you drop off the car and get the needed work done.
Business will become more intertwined with the internet so much so that
some companies will only have a cyber store. With on-demand shipping and
manufacturing, production and shipping aspects of retail will be streamlined. I
also believe that many more jobs in the market will be done at home via telecommute. Telecommuting will become more
popular, allowing entire offices to be replaced with VPNs spanning,
potentially, the globe. Video conferencing, instant messaging, file transfers,
etc. will make the VPN office at least as productive as any physical one and
will all but eliminate the need for costly office space rental and maintenance.
I envisage a 10 fold speed/data transfer rate increase.
I ideate the internet will be highly integrated into all class rooms
from elementary to college down to tertiary institutions and beyond. We will
see touch screen desktops indicating there will be no more need for paper books
or paper to do work on. E-paper will be able to communicate with your desk at
school and allow you to complete and email your assignments to your teacher or
professor. Where possible, and
driven by the need to reduce consumption of paper goods, bills, statements,
letters, brochures, catalogs, etc. will be replaced with electronic
equivalents. PDF documents will more often be designed with accessibility
features fully utilized and the more efficient open source and freeware PDF
viewers will spread making the use of these
documents ever more desirable.
I envisage the internet being cleaned up as well. Pornographic site will
be moved into a domain all to itself(.xxx domain). That way, it will be easier
accessed (for those that wish to access) and easier for parents to control
access by children.
In ten year’s time, there will be a need to be on atleast IPv8 because
we will have run out of IP addresses. This is simply because all nodes connected to the internet such as fridge, windows, cars, and other house gadgets will all have IP Addresses assigned to them.
There will no longer be petty wars and the world would have moved on to
online gaming. Here two old farts play Playstation5 and whoever wins is
declared the winner of any feud.
The Internet will move into the Third World countries
and helping to improve the standards of living. It will allow the top doctors
from the Western Word and overseas generally to set up a single robotic doctor
and via the Internet using video and audio inputs perform surgeries in remote
locations. This will also allow for doctors to examine patients from afar and
not risk life if contagious agents exist.
Meanwhile the capabilities of the Internet to
deliver information and other forms of communication will see it gaining more relevance.
International barriers will be eroded ever more
by the maturation of today's Internet generation, accustomed to the ability to
communicate with their counterparts in foreign lands. The world will grow ever
more tight-knit, cultural barriers disintegrating.
The Internet will be used for anything imaginable.
In ten years time, more
daily tasks will be totally dependent on the Internet, whether it is making
phone calls, watching television, paying bills or transacting.
The world we know today by then will be so
engulfed in the Internet that we will decide to cut ourselves off from reality
and permanently live in the Internet. The world could be made such better place
if the Internet is used wisely, on the other hand it could be the downfall of modern
Western civilization.
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