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The Future of the Internet
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Your Immediate Future and the Internet

• Job Searches monster.com, daily newspapers,
  potential employers
• New browsers (Firefox) and methods of accessing
  internet (cell phone)

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The Near Future of the Internet

• Increased bandwidth
• More Cable Modems and DSL connections
• Fewer telephone/modem connections
• More video/animation/sound

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What will the future look like?

• What will this do for design?
• What will be the languages/software used?
• Opportunities for software companies?
•   More or less accessible to non-professionals?
• Effectiveness of static websites?
• Will there be two webs?

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Websites Combine all Media

• Video and Animation and Text.
• Skills become more specialized.
• All-purpose web designers less common.
• But, convergence opens up entertainment industry
  more jobs and cheaper to produce visual
  entertainment.
• More forms of entertainment and e-commerce are
  possible. (May be more interactive.)
• Internet ratings

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Convergence

• Combine
• internet/the web
• telephone
• television
• radio
• print
• Think digital cable companies now.

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Whats Wrong with the PC?

• Do we need a large clunky desktop or laptop
  computer?
• Can we have appliances to do what we need?
  including
  web access (through cell phones, etc.)
  
  e-mail.
  photo printers.
•   Appliances both support and reject idea of
  Convergence.
•   Which do you prefer?

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Cable Television Forging Ahead

• DVR
• OnDemand services
• Alter advertising model

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The End of Wires

• Wireless technology eliminates phones, cables,
  etc.
• Cable television reverts back to broadcast with
  decoders?
• No phone wires?
• Developing countries

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Everything Gets Bigger

• Screens are larger
•  Flat screen television
•  Wall televisions
• Screens are everywhere
•  Every room of the house
•  Waiting rooms
•  Stores
• Cars

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Everything Gets Smaller

• PDAs
• Watches
• Clothes
• Glasses
• Small projector

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Web/Internet Interfaces

• Pen
• Voice
• Finger
• Projection/Touchscreen sensor
• Eye
• Biofeedback possibilities
• Talk to your television

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The Invisible Computer

• Intelligent Agents
• Refrigerator/Supermarket
• Supply Cabinet/Supply Company
• Track kids and older folks
• Clothes/Hospital Doctor
• Active Messenger (MIT) sends message to any
  number of sources, depending on where owner might
  be. Analyzes importance of message.

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Internet Communication

• Text messages through cell phones now.
• Faxes can get converted to e-mails now.
• Voice messages replace e-mail or complement it.
• What are advantages of each?
• Cell phones replaced by something smaller all
  voice controlled? Or more of a reliance on text
  messaging requires literate society.

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Cultural and Political Changes I

• Picture phones.Form of communication. Stay in
  hand
• Howard Dean

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Cultural and Political Changes II

• Short Message Service (SMS) messaging.
• In some countries, cheaper than phone service.
  Cell phones much more common than PCs.
• Philippines 2001. President Estrada lost power
  to smart mob and text messaging

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Cultural and Political Changes III

• Seattle 1999. World Trade Organization
  protests.
• Toronto 2000. Violent protest webcast.
• South Korea 2002. Presidential election.

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Digital Lifestyle IEntertainment on the Internet

• Watch shows and films
• Participate in plays (avatars)
• Multiplayer games exist now
• Play games/shows. Will others watch?
• Chats what would happen if they became more
  real? (not text or avatar based)

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Digital Lifestyle II E-Commerce

• More products will be sold on the web.
• Bit products may be downloaded.
• Newer generations will be more comfortable with
  the internet/web.
• What products cant/wont be sold entirely on the
  web? Why?
• Retail clerks are one of the largest work forces
  in country.

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Digital Lifestyle III

• Internet Dating (all purpose or based on
  religion, college)
• Virtual work
• E-learning
• Friendster http//www.friendster.com

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Problems with the Digital Lifestyle

• Internet to Information Superhighway
• With broadband, more mainstream content
• People will demand more lively, more active
  sites.
• Less education/non-profit sites

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Possible Negative Changes

• Flat fee vs. pay-per-use
• Privacy issues (Google)
• Information vs. Entertainment
• Mass audience (videos and Blockbuster)
• or is it really a unique medium? Think
  BLOGS.
• Culture devalued (art, music, books) from
  information overload.

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Security Issues

• Individuals recorded in public places.
• Too much information created.
• Able to track one particular person.
• GPS systems (employees/kids/older folks)
• Rheingolds Always on Panopticon(all-seeing
  place formerly schools, prisions, mental
  institutions)

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Backlash against the Internet

• More face-to-face clubs
  community theater, bowling
•   More family and friend nights
• turn off box
• Or it all becomes merged.Increases
  communication and more voice and face to face
  contact emerges.
• Finding new friends at the airport.

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More informationbecomes a part of life.

• Enjoy the web.Thanks for listening. See you at
  the final.