The World Wide Web Ten Years From Now

In the next ten years the World Wide Web will change drastically. Just as the Web has changed significantly since it popularity started to grow in the early ninety’s, the web will evolve more and more people each day. Millions turn to the web at a greater extent each passing hour, as connections and new technology’s reach the rural areas of the planet. Wireless access will be global, new people with new ideas flood the networks with invention and a breath of creativity.

One thing that will be affected is our home life in general. “The internet capable devices will be pervasive - imagine cars with internet capability, appliances that send you updates when they need service, fridges that are intelligent enough to help you manage an online shopping list. You’ll be able to manage your entire home from a browser (centresource.com).” This in general will be extremely helpful and more economic. Are major appliances, are home temperature settings and even our food will be able to last longer and be maintained and updated effectively with a few clicks.

The Web overall will be able to reach virtually any device and connect the people in which possess them closer to each other. Which brings me to my next point, “all this will enable more peer-to-peer interaction outside of “at the desk” scenarios: you’ll be “social networking” while you’re driving, walking down the street, shopping, etc. (centresource.com).” Also “there will be no single social network - instead, social connectivity will happen through any website. You’ll have a single profile that will be recognized on any site, and allow you to engage in conversation there, share content, and make comments almost anywhere, which is then fed into your profile. It’s like Facebook Connect, just much larger and pervasive (centresource.com).”

The list of advances on the web in the next ten years could go on and on forever. Millions of new ideas are thought up each hour on how to bring the world closer together. Hopefully this will spawn a new era of reason and as we continue to be informed and educated and learn new things about each person’s human experience we may find a way to co-exist without quarrel and war.