Ask HN: What is your Timeline predictions of the far future of the Internet?

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by abbiya • 8 years ago

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CM30• 8 years ago

How far future are we talking here?

A decade? A century? Next millennium?

Far enough in future, I predict we'll see internet technology become integrated with our own bodies, and brain interfaces used to surf the internet merely by thinking about it. That's really the goal all this network stuff has been leading up to, and that's arguably the final step needed to make it all truly ubiquous.

On a closer time frame, well I think voice commands and interfaces are in for a revival. We're already seeing them with systems like Siri and Alexa, and the technology for them is already creeping into web browsers like Google Chrome. So I believe in the next few years, we'll see a large increase in sites that rely on voice commands to operate and return auto generated spoken content in return. Like how your stereotypical computer works in a sci-fi show.

However, I don't really see VR ever being too big online. It's a useful technology and will certain have its uses for online games, chat rooms and other such services, but the idea of a 'city' like interface you walk around as a future internet just seems like a clunky usability nightmare more than anything. Interfaces will get faster and easier to use, not just more fancy looking.

So yeah, those are my thoughts on the matter.

Ask HN: What is your Timeline predictions of the far future of the Internet?

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