Monday, April 5, 2010

The Future of the Internet (2)




Welcome to part 2 of the discussion of the topic. I encountered some formatting issues with blogger which messed up screen pretty badly when i tried to manually manipulate the HTMLL code.... i guess blogger is still a long way in pre-empting what i want and does not count as a "semantic web" application... haha.

For instance, when you get out of bed every morning, your personal computer would automatically boot up, load windows and automatically connect to the internet with your frequently visited webpages open and ready to go as soon as you step out of the shower. To achieve such a result in the present day is actually possible, however one will need to manipulate the PC extensively before achieving such a result. As such, semantic web (A.K.A. web 3.0) is still in its infancy.

Next in line for the future of the internet is a really cool piece of technology dubbed, "Sixth Sense Technology (SST)"

Words cannot even begin to explain the limitless possibilities of SST, so i shall let the pictures do the talking for now.




Basically what SST is " a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web" (Diaz 2009)


Basically it makes day to day tasks such as making phone calls and searching the web for information more revolutionary.

For instance, you could hold up your hands in a "square" action and the SST will realise that gesture as a "photo taking" gesture can capture whatever you have in between your hands literally!!!

Soon you will be able to look at something such as a bar code for instance all relevant information will be projected onto your eye retinas in numerous lines of information a la the matrix.


The Future of the Internet

I robot, a film 6 years ago depicting earth and will smith the near future of what earth very well might become.

"it's 2035 A.D., where robots are everyday objects and are programmed to live alongside humans" - Source IMDB

It may be the year 2035 in the film, however this reality might come very soon for us, perhaps in the the next 10 or 20 years.

The internet nowadays is being used for a variety of day to day activities, from personal usage such as purchasing goods and services online, to synchronising multinational corporations whose businesses span the globe.

As the needs of both businesses and personal users of the internet get increasingly complex, internet is slowly starting to evolve.

One such concept is that of "Semantic Web". According to Berners Lee (1992), the "father" of the internet,

"The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to "understand" and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2] It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.[3]"