Future of the Internet

Technology advances with every daring step that mankind takes and only his fear of the dangers that tomorrow brings, might hold him back from a brighter tomorrow. It is almost as if the future lies in our hands, for the responsibility lies upon us, to take a step further and venture into the world of endless possibilities. The future of internet is a very exciting concept that is literally filled with millions of possibilities that are only limited by the imagination of mankind. With the ever advancing technology that keeps the list of inventions growing, it makes me wonder: What's next?

First things first, connectivity is going to definitely increase, people from miles apart with even the seven seas separating them are going to appear just standing side by side. This might entail several other benefits, such as with an increasingly connected world, receiving of information can occur almost instantly. When you can literally search for anything information with just couple of taps on a smartphone screen, and receive it literally at your fingertips, what else can you do? The answer isn't entirely clear, but the possibilities are exciting.

One thing that seems certain is that data transmission speeds will increase globally. As time passes, the costs of producing ultra-high-speed networks is decreasing. Eventually, the average consumer will be able to download a high-definition movie in a second or play cloud-based video games without a hint of lag. Or at least I hope that will happen. Cause I am getting very annoyed with the slow connection and how service providers right now are claiming to provide faster connections, but the lag time is still unbearable.

Even as wired connections reach unprecedented speeds, wireless technology continues to evolve. With technologies like LTE that are already giving us the ability to access the Internet wireless at speeds comparable to broadband connections. It has already opens the doors for portable devices like smartphones, laptops and tablets to plug into the Internet without the need for wires. Hence, if the future promises even faster connection speeds, I am really eager to find out how are they going to make them possible, for right now they are beyond imagination.

Also existing technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality are already pretty amazing, but as technology advances, the lines that separate reality from virtual reality are going to get blur. With computer games that are providing the gamers almost realistic features, by allowing them to embrace the virtual world as if it were reality, the future is going to hold even crazier possibilities.

With microchip technology to enable to track out movements, but currently only for certain purposes, such as in sports, I expect the future to be filled with those.  People’s every movement might soon be tracked and we might lose our sense of privacy. This might be something to be concern about though, for privacy might be a fading concept and something that we might only learn to appreciate after it is gone.