Sometimes I’d like to peek into the future. Just out of curiosity. How will the internet look like in the future? Will we have a facebook desktop? Will Facebook be the next search giant? Or will our machines work on a Google OS? Or maybe we will all be working on Google tablets and desktops will only be for designers and developers. Or will Amazon laugh at both Facebook and Google and keep growing and growing. Will Microsoft still exist? Will Apple be able to maintain it’s status?
Or maybe there will be something completely new, invented by a new brand. A new shining star. A game changer. Maybe we won’t use HTML based websites anymore and we will have a complete new set of standards. More flexible, even more user focused. Web 2.1? Or will internet marketing take over and steer the web to a more ad based platform? Will internet marketing own the internet? Will the fight over the user’s attention escalate into an internet war?
Wouldn’t you want to know? Are you not curious about how it would look like in for example 5 years, or even 10 years. I know I do. Look 10 years back and see how much has changed. Don’t you just love the internet?
Earlier on this week I found this fantastic Infographic via Neville Hobson on Twitter (click the image above for full sized graphic). It’s incredible to see how far we’ve come in the last 10 years of the Internet and it provoked a bigger question. What is going to happen in the next 10 years of the Internet? What will it look like a decade from now? Whenever I’m asked this question the first thing that springs to mind is ‘implants’… maybe I read too much William Gibson when I was younger or maybe it’s because I’m getting older and beginning to understand the limitations of my own memory. There are things I simply don’t have to remember now because I can Google them. As a result when I’m not able to access the Internet I suffer, unsure about facts I’m lost without the ability to have most knowledge at my fingertips. A simple implant that would allow me to Google from my brain would solve this. It has to be the future right?
Ooh.. now that is scary Panama. I would not like to have Google messing with my head. But I agree that indeed we are heading that way. No more keyboards, more portability. Time will tell.