Week 11 EOC: The future of the internet

When we look at the internet and where it is going it is probably an unknown quantity. I could make some kind of a prediction and that’s all it can be, a prediction. In 1970 an author by the name of Alvin Toffler wrote a book called “Future Shock”. In it he shares his interpretation of the future and what it might be.“he anticipated, long in advance, today’s computer revolution, as well as cloning, the fragmentation of the family, cable television, VCRs, satellites, customized products, the speed-up of daily life, niche markets, virtual agents and the rise of the "knowledge economy. “(http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnists/toffler/toff05.htm). He said that if technology increases to fast that society would suffer from what he called “Future Shock”. He said that people would be overwhelmed. If you take a look at his prediction you can see that he was limited quite a bit. I think that people have actually dealt with it quite well. People are not overwhelmed if anything I think that are next generation are growing up with too much data in their face. My nephews who are all under the age of 8 all have iPhones and know how to use them. But I fear that all of them could grow up with “attention deficit disorder”. “Now we not only shop, bank, work and meet people online; but we share what we are doing at any given moment (e.g. Twitter), and even keep statistics on daily minutia.”( http://sixrevisions.com/web-technology/6-predictions-for-the-future-of-the-internet/). But back to the internet, I think that with new technology like HTML and the improvement of the backbone from IPv4 to IPv6 more exciting things will be possible through the internet. Just think what it could do with education, it has already begun to transform the print industry.“You can buy books from Google and read them on your Android, iWhatever, e-reader, or the Web; authors and publishers can upload their own books, with or without DRM; and it’s all been expertly implemented.”( http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/18/google-ebooks/)