How will the Internet evolve as "digital natives" become the majority?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000251

by Paton • 17 years ago

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Right now, the success of the internet relies on people who are not technologically adept.

How do you think the industry will be affected as "digital natives" ages to become the majority of the population?

anigbrowl• 17 years ago

Not much. More people are lexically adept - that is, literate - than ever before by historical standards and yet look at how bad the media is. On an interface level, design is all about presenting information and options to the user in a way that's easy to navigate. But the fundamentals of that are relatively simple - look at newspaper and magazine advertising from today, 30-40 years ago, and from the 19th century. The artwork and proportional ratios of different elements have changed considerably, but it's the same basic mechanism of hook, development, call to action.

michaeljung• 17 years ago

Well, we saw the Dot.com boom/bust/enthusiasm. We see/saw the Web 2.0 enthusiasm. And everyone is asking what is Web 3.0? I'd say there is no Web 3.0 ... there is only the network, and our aim for the next decade is to keep the network as open, ad democratic, and as filter free as possible. See net neutrality, see governments who want to put filters in places, who censor search results.

Thus the next big thing on the network is the internet of things which will expand/and hover around your experience of the internet.

Think of the refrigerator who know what milk you drink, how much you drink, when to order new milk. Your cabined which knows what ingredients you have in the kitchen, and pulls up the recipe off the thousands of content sites, the right meal for you as vegetarian.

And it know it takes only 30 minutes to cook and choose it deliberately because you have a doctors appointment at 5 (it knows because it is in the network, connected to your calendar & Google Health).

The house know when you have a party and who is at your party because of the security cameras and face recognition. And tweets it out who is there, or crosses off the RSVP list and sends a tweet to all those who said they are there but aren't. So the network informs them, hey blabla is here, your bff, why aren't you here, you said you come.

Or your electric car updates your Facebook status that you are driving you kids to school.

The internet of things is the next big thing to happen, they will be part of our social graph, because they are part of our life. The car, the phone, the refrigorator, the microwave, the oven, the flatscreen (blabla is watching this and this), ... yes flatscreen. because TV will be (or is for us) boring and uninteresting.

I should blog about it. The network of things. The next big thing next to renewable energy, democracy, higher taxes, inflation and persistent high unemployment. Well, the last two things are sill a puzzle.

http://michaeljung.wordpress.com/ http://bit.ly/michaeljung <- Facebook Fanpage

How will the Internet evolve as "digital natives" become the majority?

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