Over the past decade the World Wide Web has come a very long way. It seems pretty crazy that something that started as a tiny network of computers has evolved into a service used daily by a tremendous number of people (probably over a billion). When thinking about the future of the Web I believe it will dominate almost every aspect of our lives. These days you can basically manage your life through the web. You can pay all your bills, do your taxes, knock out some school work, and write a letter all without having to leave the comfort of your home (or bed if you factor in laptops). The future of this service will most likely continue down this path in my opinion. It is very hard to even think of things the World Wide Web hasn't already done. I mean, you can start your car using the web/internet....
I think the technology the web offers will just continue to improve until a constant internet connection is necessary to live a normal life. Possibly connecting every appliance/aspect of your home so that multitasking becomes second nature. Like a web based program that you can utilize to start making coffee at this time, start my car at this time, turn the toaster on at this time, start the shower at this time...But for all I know the web already has something like this.
Another sign of evolving internet is how much "The Cloud" has become apart of the web. The Cloud basically being a gigantic external storage service for everything from video games, to photo tweaking programs. While this service adds a huge amount of convenience to our lives I can see where it could run into problems. The article that discusses netflix going down on christmas eve and the amount of people immediately complaining goes to show how much people will start to depend on this service. I know personally I thought I was going to lose my mind when the Playstation network went down for 3 days and I couldn't download any games stored in their digital cloud. If obtaining a hard copy of software becomes impossible one day I would hope that the cloud service providers have taken every precaution to ensure this doesn't happen on a regular basis
Yes, I agree with you. Now most people don't really leave the house because they can do everything online at home. I am guessing later on people will not need to go out at all, if the technology keep expanding.
ReplyDeleteeven though technology might make us lazy,it is a nice thing to have.Imagine all people having to stand in line to pay a bill,its going to be a week or even a month long stand over there just to pay a simple bill.
DeleteWe are in a generation where we depend 100% on technolgy and we are lost when our computers or services such as cellphone, internet,etc are down. They start to become a neccessity in our daily lives, like electricity or running water.The more technolgy comes in like downloading playstation games through the digital cloud, the more demanding we get.
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