The next ten years on the Internet
Yesterday (Friday) the Wall Street Journal joined the discussion of the future that seems to be going around. Normally, the WSJ requires a subscription but it is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Web site and is making the articles free until May 10. That means you can all read the exchange of views on the future of the Internet by two well-known experts. Vint Cerf (sometimes called the “Father of the Internet”) and Esther Dyson talk about where they see the Internet in ten years. An excerpt from Esther Dyson:
The Internet so far has existed mostly in cyberspace, linking computers fed data by humans and by other computers. The Internet of the future will be much more tightly linked to physical space. First of all, many of its future users will connect via cellphones, and the net will know more about their physical locations and their identities than it does about those who reach it by computer. Beyond that, as Vint writes, the Internet will link things in space (on Earth as well as in off-Earth “space”).
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