Mobile is our future
Dec 16, 2008
I love those folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
They release the coolest information. The newest report, The Future of
the Internet, includes some information on the mobile web. Take a hard
look at your cell phone right now. Think you'll be getting a Smart
Phone if you don't have one already? I suspect it will eventually be
the only option.
Now, you're fairly on top of things, so none of this will be a surprise to you. But isn't it nice to have your suspicions confirmed?
Some tidbits from the report:
The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but
that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social
tolerance, or forgiveness.Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020. Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright
protection will remain in a continuing arms race, with the crackers who
will find ways to copy and share content without payment.The divisions between personal time and work time and between
physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is
connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic
social relations.Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current
internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the
architecture from scratch.
