Your opinion please... where is the internet heading in 5 to 10 years?
Hi...
I have an web dev internship interview and am meditating on how it will pan out... what i will say to sell myself, what i want out of them etc
One of things I wonder is how things will pan out over time. 15 years ago when I was a lad, there wasn't really internet... we had to go to library etc... now it's sooo easy to learn, watch videos and dirty dirty steal music (:thumbdown:). So in 15 years thats a pardigm shift, like since computers were invented!
What is going happen in 5, 10...15 years?... fire up your time ship.
So... I think that:
- PCs will be lounge style PCs so all this Internet Browser and OS uglyness will be replaced by beutiful GUIs
- Better WYSIWIG editors to increase people making content (is this good or bad?)
- I almost want physical surfaces to touch like in a VST studio... knobs, sliders... rotate that model with a knob!
- Some kind of Child or Elderly GUI overlay for OS, GUIs, Websites etc... the amount of choice cofuses old folk who are new to the technology!
- what about displays... will steroscopic take off
- Input... virtual suits for the consumer market... i know guys doing stuff like this now... is looking really good!
I'd love to know more about the Transmission layer etc... where all that is heading... (as I said I am more front end, content, graphics and interactivity).
Thanks.
I have an web dev internship interview and am meditating on how it will pan out... what i will say to sell myself, what i want out of them etc
One of things I wonder is how things will pan out over time. 15 years ago when I was a lad, there wasn't really internet... we had to go to library etc... now it's sooo easy to learn, watch videos and dirty dirty steal music (:thumbdown:). So in 15 years thats a pardigm shift, like since computers were invented!
What is going happen in 5, 10...15 years?... fire up your time ship.
So... I think that:
- PCs will be lounge style PCs so all this Internet Browser and OS uglyness will be replaced by beutiful GUIs
- Better WYSIWIG editors to increase people making content (is this good or bad?)
- I almost want physical surfaces to touch like in a VST studio... knobs, sliders... rotate that model with a knob!
- Some kind of Child or Elderly GUI overlay for OS, GUIs, Websites etc... the amount of choice cofuses old folk who are new to the technology!
- what about displays... will steroscopic take off
- Input... virtual suits for the consumer market... i know guys doing stuff like this now... is looking really good!
I'd love to know more about the Transmission layer etc... where all that is heading... (as I said I am more front end, content, graphics and interactivity).
Thanks.
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If so let there be knobs!
Yeah mate... like the scene in Clockwork orange
This but for 3d modellers. Does it exist?
Internet Freedom act of 2009
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3458
(Otherwise the Net will be a very closed off and business only oriented affair where communication will be tier down versus across)
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yep:
In 10 years, ISP's will all be offering their own versions of the internet. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts, folks, because the almighty corpocracy will destroy net neutrality sooner or later. I can't wait for the day I need to sign up for a Swedish internet service just to access the sites I can already view now.
Aside from that it's going to be more mobile, most sites will integrate with major social networks in some way or another, and most of us will have stopped going into terrible stores to buy scratched up disks from people who just want us to trade it back in for a strategy guide.
Oh, and +1 for stereoscopic porn.
Maybe within 10 years, one big shift. Like how online video (promised to us since what, 1998?) is now finally kinda working (netflix streaming, hulu).
I think input will stay the same (for the broad audiences). Maybe there will be something close to a new ipod phenomena.
I feel like things are already *too* connected these days. Maybe a new uber kind of storage? SSDs everywere at least?
Well, from a business perspective, having more people using your service/product, increasing traffic to your site, and so forth - is a good thing.
People will have the ability to express themselves through a variety mediums and learn about various tools - a good thing overall (obviously some risks with material and content). It provides a younger, more computer savvy generation a chance to teach an older one that is not so familiar. It opens up a chance for artists of all kinds to teach those have interest in a field.
A quick learning curve can raise interest and give people a chance to try their hands at a variety of fields - a good thing.
Plus, genius is found in unexpected places. People might surprise you when given a chance.
The bad, however, if things are eventually made so "easy" that anyone can do it (or thinks that they can) is that you'll have a rise in possibly bad or mediocre content. Artistically, you'll run in to poorly designed sites by people who know nothing about design; poorly edited videos by people who don't know how to edit, etc.
Additionally, one big problem might be a rise in "cookie cutter" templates for a variety of things - sites, 3d models, etc. If people just stick to using those, even with simple tweaks, etc. then we run in to a problem of a lack of creativity and originality - and you going to three different websites and saying, "Oh look, it's the Snoopy McDoodle template in green.... and brown..... and blue....".
Not that these things aren't anything you can't see nowadays - but, I mean, as the bar of entry gets lower, and more people begin to use something, and things become less "specialized", it's easier for content to get poorer in quality or less original and for the amount of that content to rise.
I mean, just knowing how to use a chisel doesn't make you a sculptor.
"PCs will be lounge style PCs so all this Internet Browser and OS uglyness will be replaced by beautiful GUIs"
"I almost want physical surfaces to touch like in a VST studio... knobs, sliders... rotate that model with a knob!"
"what about displays... will steroscopic take off"
Man, remember in the Iron Man movie, when the diagram/model of his suit is in full 3d and he reaches his hand into the glove and wears it and is messing with the suit that way?
I'll take one of those please. :-)
see *term* videogame dev life seems to be evident of this. I`m not even crunching and I feel like the stress is slowly killing me...
10-15 years there won't be any phone or cable company's because they will have re-branded into net company's. Taking the worth features of both sides like, multi-year contracts, bandwidth tiers, data caps, website tiers, and more. All so that they can get more money from you. What you get out of this is the internet anywhere all the time.
its so funny that it hurts!
Hopefully i dont have a internet connection to my brains.
I can sit on public transport with a boner and drool at porn vids playing in my head
A friend of mine does this, only substitute the word 'head' with 'iPod'.
lol time to audit who you call friends... lol
I first heard this phrase about ten years ago, amidst predictions that government and corporate entities would take over the internet as we knew it with excessive regulation, access restrictions and pretty much totalitarian control. Everyone else deemed 'less reputable' would have to go 'underground', where such legislation and control couldn't affect the flow of information between the The People - the Internet II.
Of course, people didn't seem to factor in the cooperation (or coercion) of ISP's back then.
Stupid people like the british government will try and control it in their own back yard realise its a failure then overturn what they did a short while later.
I hope we get to somewhere where we have a more persistant OS, or at least online persona. I think people are getting tired of having to reinstall a new os every few years and reaquire all the rubbish they had before. If Windows dont come up with it then Google will.
I predict the internet will become self aware in 2020, get bored with all the inane activity that its being put to, then commit suicide. An alternative internet will then be created, with safety precautions and vetting procedures. No emos, inane, stupid questions redirected to a temp worker, facebooks users lobotomised, and so on.
they will have gone down drastically in price, and there will be more types of them, even ones able to print circuit boards. in the future, you'll be able to download schematics for a robot toy, and have your computer print it. home manufacturing is a reality, and chinas industry will have nothing to do, since people will just download schematics, and print all the cheap junk they used to buy at walmart.
by 2025, moores law predicts we'll be able to simulate the human brain as well, which will infuriate religious followers,
and government will finally have gotten more digitized, as the old bats in government has died off,
and the internet generations are starting to take control.
education for most theoretical studies will most probably be done entirely online,
and most physical labour is probably taken over by robots.
space tourism might also have become more commonplace.
Anyone read about the UK government wanting to make a broadband tax for everyone with a phoneline? Answer to everything at the moment "tax".
Hmm was watching a video about those 3D printers, very cool, guess its the price of the material which would be the exspensive thing no?
In 15 years home desktops will be dead, and replaced with laptops. Laptop will be like a cell phones, you will get one when you get your service plan. You want to play games then you will have to pay for the gaming service package.
Desktop OS's will be split into home and work versions. The work versions will be slightly dumbed down versions of what we have now. The home OS's versions will look more like the mobile OS's we have now with a few more features.
http://www.welookdoyou.com/fufme/index.shtml.html
bwahaa
the internet will have become easily accessible to every corner of the world, the physical network will have been completed, easily maintained, and upgraded.
the means of spreading and gathering information will become so streamlined, knowing the previously unknown, will become nearly effortless and instantaneous
information will become faster and easier to absorb and understand, overall intellect of the human race will surge
year 2040, 20 years from now
the world's collective philosophies, beliefs, and cultures will under go a rigorous sifting and pruning process. information will become infallible, protected, instantaneous, and wide-spread.
the internet will have completely broken down cultural barriers in language, education, politics, and religion. The knowledge gained by the breakdown of these barriers will coalesce.
factual and unaltered data will go through am increased rate of evolutionary scrutiny, inspection, and cross referencing. undefinable problems, will universally become actively researched to be proven or dis-proven. nonsensical believes and practices will be abandoned.
a select minority will destroy everything in defiance and all will be lost.
http://gizmodo.com/5408504/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chrome-os
http://gizmodo.com/5408514/google-chrome-first-official-screenshots-%5Bupdating-live%5D
http://gizmodo.com/5408540/what-is-google-chrome-os-explained-by-google
^proof!
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html
I thought this was interesting. And I think it answers the question directly.
GREAAAAT now im addicted to ted again, its worse than youtube vids of cute animals.
too lazy to read the rest of the thread, but that really made my day
edit: realized that the rest of the thread was only like 5 posts, so i guess i read the rest aswell. still made my day!
BOOO
I'll be 39 OMFG
"Runner. Follow the corridor with the pipes overhead. The way is always down."
I figger that since I'm not on the bleeding edge of anything, anything I guess will be wrong, so I'll just sit back and enjoy the ride.
why wait? you could do it RIGHT NOW !!!
This reminded me of that awesome graffiti in one of the first Left 4 Dead safehouses, where it says something like 'I don't care, now I can kill whoever I want.'
thats already a feature in google earth.
So in less that five years you'll be paying to surf a 'walled garden', there's just too much money to be made from the Net for that not to be the case.