The Internet we know today has been largely about connecting people to information, people to people, and people to business.If you ask me, the Internet has come a long way. It has definitely evolved tremendously for the past decade. What is it going to be like in the future one may ask? We can’t know what exactly it is going to be like since the future is uncertain but we can predict.
Take a look at the video to see the evolution of the Internet
So the video basically highlights the possibility of increase access to the Internet from intelligent devices, clothes, and many others. Cool isn’t it?
Other than that, just like the Industrial Revolution, there are predictions of an “Industrial Internet” – an open, global network that connects people, data and machines.
Basically, there are now millions of machines all over the world. Simple electric motors, advanced MRI machines to sophisticated machineries that produce electricity. There are also thousands of complex networks ranging from power grids to railroad systems, which tie machines and fleets together.This vast physical world of machines, facilities, fleets and networks can more deeply merge with the connectivity, big data and analytics of the digital world. This is what the Industrial Internet Revolution is all about.
This is where the cloud computing comes into play. The Industrial Internet leverages the power of the cloud to connect machines embedded with sensors and sophisticated software to other machines (and to us) so we can extract data, make sense of it and find meaning where it did not exist before.
Machines – from jet engines to gas turbines to CT scanners – will have the analytical intelligence to self-diagnose and self-correct. They will be able to deliver the right information to the right people, all in real time. When machines can sense conditions and communicate, they become instruments of understanding. They create knowledge from which we can act quickly, saving money and producing better outcomes.
Ahh, sound familiar? Yes, machines are going to rule the world! Some may say this is a long shot but hey, who are we t disagree? Lets just see what will happen in future. There are endless possibilities for the Internet- too often we’re still left asking, “to what end?”
http://gigaom.com/2012/11/28/the-future-of-the-internet-is-intelligent-machines/
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There are so many things of the future that we can’t predict, however, in the instance of technology, so many things will jut get upgraded and be twice as efficient as it already is. However, there are so many new innovations out there that are bound to be so significant to us in the future that our lives may change drastically. Take the iPad for example, no one expected it to be one of necessity, I certainly did not. But hearing some of my peers talk about their gadget, it seems like the ability to survive a day without it would be near impossible.
Yeah I think in future, just like how GE has predicted, the Internet will run our lives. Take now for instance, it is only the 21st century and we are already dependent on it. If Internet were to be shut down for a day, I am sure our lives will be halted.
Machines are so going to take over the world. With technology like that, of course it’ll be a possibility. I don’t doubt it at all. Haha
But, we shouldn’t be too paranoid. We should trust in the computer scientists and look forward to the future.
Yeah as much as we fear this change, it will eventually happen. All we got to do is wait and see.
If there is going to be the rise of the machines, I’ll know who to call, *coughs* John Connor.
LOL. STAHP.