The following was an interesting set of web internet predictions that we read on the web and we found it so interesting, we decided to re-post it here with full attribution to the author. We do not often do this, however some of these ideas are really neat. We wanted to make them available to our readers.
If you have already seen them just skip to the next post. Also please do leave a comment about what you think the predictions will be for the future. We live in an exciting world and the possibilities going into the future are just astounding. This post was originally written in 2015. Of course depending on when you are reading this, some of these predictions may have already come to be, while others may not.
Web/internet: ‘Quantum computing is the future’
The open web created by idealist geeks, hippies and academics, who believed in the free and generative flow of knowledge, is being overrun by a web that is safer, more controlled and commercial, created by problem-solving pragmatists.
Henry Ford worked out how to make money by making products people wanted to own and buy for themselves. Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are working out how to make money from allowing people to share, on their terms.
Facebook and Apple are spawning cloud capitalism. Which consumers allow companies to manage information, media, ideas, money, software, tools and preferences on their behalf. Hence they are holding everything in vast, floating clouds of shared data. We will be invited to trade invasions into our privacy – companies knowing ever more about our lives – for a more personalized service. For example we will be able to share, but on their terms.
Julian Assange and the movement that has been ignited by WikiLeaks is the most radical version of the alternative: a free, egalitarian, open and public web. The fate of this movement will be a sign of things to come. If it can command broad support, then the open web has a chance to remain a mainstream force. If, however, it becomes little more than a guerrilla campaign, then the open web could be pushed to the margins, along with national public radio
By 2035, the web, as a single space largely made up of webpages accessed on computers, will be long gone.
Mobile Web
As the web goes mobile, those who pay more will get faster access. As a result we will be sharing videos, simulations, experiences and environments. For example this will be accomplished on a multiplicity of devices to which we’ll pay as much attention as a light switch.
Yet, many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages. Also by 2035 we will be talking about the coming of quantum computing. Which will take us beyond the world of binary, digital computing, on and off, black and white, 0s and 1s.
The small town of Waterloo, Ontario is home to the Perimeter Institute. It is funded by the founder of BlackBerry. It is currently houses the largest collection of theoretical physicists in the world.
The bedrooms of Waterloo are where the next web may well be made.
Charles Leadbeater, author and social entrepreneur. For more predictions, click here.