1. The future of the Internet
David Mitchell 3703259
Jonothan Horne

2. • How the internet began….
• The internet first began over 25 years ago when it
was used by the U.S Department of Defense to
create a computer network that would survive a
nuclear war. The internet then evolved, mainly
used by academic institutions, scientists and the
government to share information. This meant
these bodies could access each other’s
information and allowed to send information to
each other via databases and E-mail.

3. • The internet became available to the general
public in 1992, in which the general public
could gain access to Text documents, Graphics
and videos displayed on the internet. The
internet also allowed the General public to be
able to download software, communicate with
each other using various types of forums, chat
or social networking sites like MySpace or
Face book.

4. • The internet was seen as business’ as a good
way to advertise on the internet and there
was a mad rush which had people and
companies signing up by the millions with
internet service providers. By mid 1994 the
internet was estimates to be connected to 2
million computers in 100 different
countries, today it is estimated there is over
one hundred million websites and billions of
webpage’s.

5. • Internet runs at different speeds according to
what type of connection it has, people with low
speed internet connections such as 56kb modem
of if connected over a phone line, will receive a
low bandwidth connection. A low bandwidth
connection makes the internet very slow. To
speed up the bandwidth, therefore making
connection to the internet faster, you will need to
connect to the internet via DSL
lines, cable, satellite and wireless networks, this
will increase the bandwidth therefore making the
internet quicker and making it much more useful.

6. • The future of the Internet.

7. • Internet has moved on from one only being
able to be accessed by PC’s to now having
internet devices such as Mobile phones and
PDA’s that can send and receive emails and
access the web. It is predicted that everything
from cars to refrigerators with b connected to
the internet.

8. • An example of this already happening is a
fridge from Electrolux. It has a wireless
internet connection that manages the stock in
the fridge and pantry. It recognizes when the
fridge is low and you can get on the internet
and order what you need online. You select
what you need, and it works by sending an
order via email to your local supermarket.

9. • A survey was run on 742 experts in the field of
computing, politics, and business and more than
half of the experts has a positive outlook on the
nets future but 46% have serious reservations.
• The experts surveyed also agreed that personal
time and work time between physical and virtual
reality will be cut by everyone who uses that
internet but did not say it would affect social
relations.

10. • The Internet is forever expanding and
changing and it would be naive to think that
their are not new revelations just around the
corner. We have seen some massive changes
in schools and their use of the
internet, changes from a resource tool to
gather information to a networking tool where
students who miss a class could watch a web
blog or a video on that days class.

11. • All these tools are used to great effect at the
present but i wanted to look at what changes
we will see in the future of the internet.
experts say that “virtual worlds will
revolutionize training and education’, in fact
all forms of knowledge sharing, and through
virtual experimentation. This meaning that
students in the future may be able to go to
school at home and interact and learn from
their own P.C

12. • “There is a strong likelihood that virtual reality
will become less virtual and more reality for
many. However, I see this as an addiction
phenomenon that will likely inspire us to
understand unexplored dimensions of being
human.” – Barry Chudakov, principal, The
Chudakov Company.

13. • This statements is great in theory but quite
scary as some reservations about the
possibility of not being able to distinguish
between the real and virtual. This could be a
major threat to peoples exsistance as people
may forget how to interact with people in a
real life situation as they will have been raped
up in their own virtual world were they can be
anyone and anywhere they want.

14. • “The year is 2016. You’ve just come out of
surgery and are being pushed down the
hospital corridor on a gurney toward the
recovery room. The nurses know you are on
the way because a radio frequency
identification (RFID) tag on your plastic patient
identification bracelet automatically
generated an alert to the nursing station.

15. • The doctor doing rounds checks the Internet to
monitor your vital signs. As always, the implants in
your body are beaming real-time information about
your brain waves and blood pressure to a protected
web site 24/7. Your daughter, who is on a different
continent, is already whispering words of
encouragement into your ear—thanks to an embedded
speech processor equipped with 802.11 wireless
technology, TCP/IP communications protocol, and
specialized software that allows sound from the
Internet to flow directly into your cochlea. Using your
VOIP-enabled mobile telephone, you tell her not to
worry”.

16. • This is the upcoming future of the internet, the internet
will be allowing social interaction and the processing of
information on vital everyday life at the push of a
button. It has been predicted that ‘Today’s devices will
disappear. Electronics will instead be embedded in our
environment, woven into our clothing, and written
directly to our retinas from eyeglasses and contact
lenses’. The information being processed to us will be
available through a hand held device that will give the
user links to everything they need to run their everyday
lives. This however sound alarm bells to some who
might think that we are just relying on a computer to
run our life and decide what to do for us, but i think
that as long as we have the power to turn off or not use
such devices the power will be in our hands it is just up
to the user on how much of his life he wants the
internet to take over.

17. References
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.
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