Is there anything that will replace the internet? Tech is always replaced by better or new tech. What will it be?
Internet Replacement?
- Thread starter Taylirious
- Start date
That's a good question, Tay. As technological evolution goes, the transition from wax cylinders, records, reel to reel tape, cassettes, 8-tracks, compact discs up to digital formats is a microcosm of how things always go.
What next, indeed?
What next, indeed?
I just wonder if the internet is the apex of the exchange of information/communication/commerce. This has changed over time as mentioned by LMFAOschwarz. 
It can't be the apex. My history is fuzzy, but somewhere back in the very early 20th century, the idea was bounced around to close the U.S. patent office, as it was thought that everything that could be invented, had been invented. 
I would hope it isn't. I just don't know much about the topic to know what is next.
Bandwidth will increase, of course, and browsers and such will evolve, perhaps more like you just look at an item and it pops up as a streaming source, with your visual field filled with open streams. What you'll watch are mostly cats doing catlike things.
As was long ago observed, the information content of a channel seems inversely related to its bandwidth. If it's limited to several dozen characters per message, with very few equipped to even command that much technology, the messages seem to be "SOS Titanic sinking SOS". If you have lots of bandwidth you get 2 gigabytes of elf porn.
As was long ago observed, the information content of a channel seems inversely related to its bandwidth. If it's limited to several dozen characters per message, with very few equipped to even command that much technology, the messages seem to be "SOS Titanic sinking SOS". If you have lots of bandwidth you get 2 gigabytes of elf porn.
Think about what is meant by "the internet." It isn't any particular hardware technology; the devices that make up the internet will be replaced by newer devices that plug into the same network. The explosion in the number of connected devices will eventually require new internet protocols, IPv4 will someday be supplanted by IPv6, but this network of new devices communicating with new protocols will still be called "the internet" even after today's internet technology has been completely replaced.
Ever have weird dreams of using computer-like devices? My most vivid was one with a lap board type device, absolutely flat and smooth, and it had four separate screens. That doesn't aid this discussion, but it was kind of neat!
I honestly see things being like the Matrix. 
I wouldn't worry too much about that possibility, Tay. That kind of thing might just be the computer world's equivalent of flying cars and silver jumpsuits by the year 2000.
(I hope! )
(I hope!
)
I honestly see things being like the Matrix.
Even The Matrix requires some sort of internet to connect all the people together.
I said I didn't know enough about the topic! LOL.
The Internet is here to stay. At a minimum, the concepts that underpin it will be essential to communication and commerce for a long, long time to come, even as the technology shifts and becomes more powerful and flexible.
I was impressed to see an IPv6 address being used in a recent episode of 24 but not impressed to see an IPv4 address in the same episode with several components having a value > 255. Or maybe the Internet in Jack Bauer's universe works differently. It probably punches you in the head whenever you look at porn.
Last edited:
"Drop the advanced teledildonics! Drop them now!"
Significant developments in the future of the Internet, in the order that I believe they will occur/are occuring:
1. IPv6 implementation, growth of the Internet of Things (Internet connected appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, toilets, etc).
2. Core redesign and implementation of the essential protocols used for email, web, public-facing file shares, etc, with secure mass use in mind this time, rather than the more responsible and educated military/university use that ARPAnet was originally intended for.
3. Mesh network. Instead of relying on an ISP, your Internet devices will connect wirelessly with each other and other devices that are relatively nearby, which will in turn do the same, and so on. Each will act as a private client device and as an public Internet traffic router.
4. The Internet of Things finally includes biological implants and begins to include an Internet of People.
5. Biotelepresence services begin being offered. (Car broke down? You'll allow me temporary access to your bionic eye feeds, and I'll tell you what to do to fix it for a fee.)
1. IPv6 implementation, growth of the Internet of Things (Internet connected appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, toilets, etc).
2. Core redesign and implementation of the essential protocols used for email, web, public-facing file shares, etc, with secure mass use in mind this time, rather than the more responsible and educated military/university use that ARPAnet was originally intended for.
3. Mesh network. Instead of relying on an ISP, your Internet devices will connect wirelessly with each other and other devices that are relatively nearby, which will in turn do the same, and so on. Each will act as a private client device and as an public Internet traffic router.
4. The Internet of Things finally includes biological implants and begins to include an Internet of People.
5. Biotelepresence services begin being offered. (Car broke down? You'll allow me temporary access to your bionic eye feeds, and I'll tell you what to do to fix it for a fee.)
What happens when your toilet gets hacked? I dread to think.
Oh Sh!t!!!
Being a hacker who has probably gained access to all your house cameras, along with the entire NSA database, I think the only things that could possibly be monetized are videos of the weird things your cat does when you're at work. Also, your mother in law is not your friend, and your wife did stare open mouthed at the plumber's butt crack, though out of interest, shock, or revulsion I cannot say.
