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Name: Dane Carswell
From: District of Columbia
Bio: Significant internet surfing experience, both for specific research, and random interests.
Area of Expertise: Advocate/Voice of the People
Topic: Getting, Sharing Information
Headline: Private Companies, Private Networks; Hardwired
Nutshell: Inspired by companies such as AOL, privately owned and controlled networks will develop using a restricting process of screening websites for useful/harmless information, and basing it in a virtually unhackable hardwired infrastructure geared toward constituents' privacy concerns.
Vision:AOL made great headway initially, with its user-friendly format. This was followed by more family-oriented controls and content, and currently an increasing amount of email security and spam preventitive measure.
Although consumers have gotten passed the hype of AOL, I believe that the future of the internet is going to require a significant amount of additional privacy, and – due to the vast amount of available information = a great deal of third-party screening for content.
Part of the approach to privacy will include a requirment that one’s network is hardwired to a specific privately operated network. Information flow will be encrypted by the private network for virtually unhackable communication.
Essentially, the governing forces that I see directing the internet will be privacy and content relevancy. The most likely pursuant of such concerns will be a private company. It will develop from there.
Date Submitted: November 11, 2004
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