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Name: Chris Trelawny-Ross
From: Texas
Bio: Project manager at a software company; software engineer; internet user
Area of Expertise: Futurist/Consultant
Topic: Information Infrastructure
Headline: The Internet – it’s everywhere you look and most places you don’t
Nutshell: What we currently know as the internet will be unrecognizable 5 years from now as integration, authentication, utility & usability issues are understood and resolved.
Vision:It will be the norm for businesses of all kinds and sizes to communicate with each other over the internet; reliability and security permit all interactions to be safely conducted on the internet. Interoperability standards; service-based system design; messaging systems that support services automatically negotiating how they will communicate with each other & cryptographical authentication and verification will provide a communication medium that all take for granted.
For private individuals who choose to use it, it will provide a secure repository of personal information, including financial and personally identifying information.
Access to any and all services provided by private business and governments will use this centralized "representative of the user"; authorization to charge for services, etc., will be by biometric identification correlated against information stored in the repository.
Service-based applications at vendors (banks, book/video/music retail/hotel/car/cruise/airline reservations, news sources, etc.) will fully interoperate and will use the personal information repository to carry out the business activities requested by the user: no more credit card numbers, no more delivery addresses to type, no more vendor web sites storing personalized information (CC #s, name and address, preferences, frequency of use, etc.). All will be integrated.
Access (read and write) to personal information will be managed by the user – who will be able to see all information that a vendor tracks about that person. Easy, intuitive, seamless, reliable, secure are words that users will use to describe their internet experience.
Date Submitted: November 10, 2004
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