Monday, April 5, 2010

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]"

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