Previsions from the dark

Previsions from the dark

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09 May 13
Written by Alexandra Coroian
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The future of Internet

The Syrian world has been on an Internet blackout for two entire days this week. Monday and Tuesday, translated into 48 hours of online silence – a complex inconvenience and a creepy event for everybody ever depending on being connected.

While Syrian state media blamed the blackout on a technical fault, many local activists said the regime has intentionally cut off the hookup to cloak military operations.

Whatever the truth may be behind the Syrian Internet shutdown, this event makes us, outsiders, stare in wonder. The online world has become so important that, we're not be able to conceive a world without Internet.

For whichever reason we're ever going to get disconnected, we're never ever going to be ready to face the offline consequences. We can only imagine the future of Internet, as well as its doom. Here are 8 predictions on how it may all turn out to be :

  1. By 2020, teens in their 20s will have “always-on” lives, shows a complex survey conducted last year by Elon University, NC. Growing in a world that offers instant access to almost all of the human knowledge, anywhere in the world, will make them good at connecting, collaborating, and working quickly. The downside of having our teens brains re-wired, will be their lack of patience and ability to deep-think complex problems or the willingness to do so.

 

  1. In the future, English will no longer reign as the most used language on the Internet, states Internet historian Ian Peter in an article about the future of the online world. More than 80% of the world's population is not English native. It is only logical that these audiences will want, at some point, to exclusively use their own languages online.

 

  1. Welcome e-wallets and e-money! Everyday purchases will come to depend on our mobile devices by 2020, is another prediction made by experts surveyed by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, who believe that cash and credit cards will soon disappear. “Our shopping will be more comfortable and protected”said Rob Scott, chief technology officer and liaison at Nokia.

 

  1. We swim in a sea of data … and the sea level is rising rapidly. Referred to as the Big Data, the huge amount of information being collected and analyzed, may lead in the future to incredible changes in business, political and social enterprises. Magnifying the good, but also the bad through the Internet, the concept of Big Data may not be all that exciting after-all, especially if the info is not organized, misread or manipulated by governments and corporations.

 

Check out our next blog to find out more interesting predictions on the future of Internet.

Take a minute to unwind and see this funny slide of a World without internet.

 

Have your say!

Which  do you think will be the most important Internet revolution of the future?

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