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Name: Bill Mick
From: New Jersey
Bio: Librarian
Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator
Topic: Communication
Headline: Constant Connection
Nutshell: Miniaturized technology allows constant connection to world networks; immersion in real world and virtual world simultaneous and constant.
Vision:New technologies will allow constant, wireless access to the Internet. Interacting with the Internet will seamlessly overlay everyday life. Keyboards will gradually disappear, replaced by some other type of input – perhaps sensors that detect eye movement. Retinal projectors will display images directly to the human eye, making screens unnecessary for most personal computing. New types of AI will be developed to build better indexes of the vast amount of content on the web… while spammers and scammers will try to develop even better AI to bypass filters.
Webpages will gradually tend towards collaborative efforts, such as Wikipedia; solitary efforts, such as blogs, will still exist, but will not be as prominent.
Due to RFID tags and cheap cameras with optical-recognition software, almost anything will be trackable online.
Storage media with old "versions" of the Internet will become hot sellers, and topics of great study, in future decades (just as we have DVD collections of TV series’ today, we may have disks of "The Internet, 1999-2002" available in the future… in rated and unrated versions, of course.)
Date Submitted: November 10, 2004
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