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How do you think the internet will change in the next 5 years?
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I think mostly it will be proliferation rather than innovation. That is, education will continue to move online, and maybe we’ll see the beginning of that move in health care too, with mobile apps that monitor vital signs. Government will be dead last in this move.
Technically very little will change; the internet is at the point that aircraft reached by the 50s. Everything is figured out, pretty much, but it’ll get more efficient and effective without major external changes.
Tablet use will expand and then stabilize. The laptop will not disappear, but the desktop PC will be used mostly by developers. Long-promised telecommuting will start to materialize, there may be some real geographic redistribution starting; people will move from the expensive coasts inland, possibly.
The bleeding edge of society-impacting tech will move to 3d printing & new materials, but mostly that change is further out.
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I believe the human race will evolve to be more feline in nature because the Internets can never has too many cats.
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I’m predicting lots of unforeseen annoyances, just because that’s how life has generally always worked out.
That said, one thing I really dread is the Apple model of “the Cloud” taking over. iCloud strikes me as such a dumb of managing things.
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I like your optimism (hehe) but I work for a new media company and ad revenue just drops year after year, and has been for at least 5 years. Mostly it’s being replaced by lead generation – you get someone’s email and permission to pass it along to a vendor in exchange for something, like access to tech papers. Which is of course far less obnoxious to the user.
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