The Future of the Internet and Technology
Looking forward, the world will have cheaper laptops, iPods, Sidekicks, iTVs, Skype and Phone.com phones, PDAs, other handheld multimedia, HDTVs, digital radios, RFID chips, GPS receivers, Wi-Fi devices, SMS and Bluetooth thingamajigs, and a wealth of additional automotive and specialized electronics to try.
All will be connected wirelessly and through fiber optics to cheap storage space via powerful processors, leveraging TCP/IP routing technology, speaking to state of the art data systems in a grid flush with real-time social, business, shopping, and entertainment connections.
Billions of people will be able to do anything they can imagine electronically, whenever they want, from wherever they want—quickly and inexpensively. Exponentially, more ones and zeros will be traversing the planet, ultimately delivering games, TV, music, video, podcast, chat, blogs, email, RSS, search, and so on, using display technologies like HTML, Java, RubyOnRails, Flash, AJAX, Flex, PDF, via open “APIs” using XML-type standards talking to MySQL, Linux, NT, and the like, while effectively conducting ecommerce and delivering managers real-time actionable analytics.
The point is that no matter what you call it—shopping, ecommerce, flash, VoIP, television, audio, Podcast, blog, message board, wiki, chat, IRC, HTML, JSP—it’s all ultimately just the modern display of ones and zeros upon the future device of your choice.
