[extropy-chat] The future of the web

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

The IFTF's Future Now
blog<http://future.iftf.org/2005/08/a_collaborative.html>has a pointer
to an excellent
knowledge at wharton<http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1244&specialId=38>article
on the future of the Web: "Something
fundamentally big is happening that will profoundly affect the life of every 
person and every business over the next five to 15 years -- the collapsing 
of everything into one single, global, ubiquitous, collaborative virtual IT 
world".
The article shows how today's web services are the first steps toward the 
emergence of a global "nervous system" with virtual personal assistants 
helping users navigating the more and more complex dataflow. The authors 
note that "In this industry, we always overestimate what we can do in one 
year, and underestimate what we can do in 10 - There's lots of innovation 
yet to come", and believe this will deeply change work patterns. Most 
building blocks are already in place, but the main problem to be solved is 
how to balance usability, privacy and security.
To put things in perspective, his article should be read together with Kevin 
Kelly's article <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html> in *Wired 
Magazine* and Mike Treder's
comments<http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2005/08/homo_ex_machina.html>on
the
CRN <http://crnano.org/> blog: "In 10 years, the system will contain 
hundreds of millions of miles of fiber-optic neurons linking the billions of 
ant-smart chips embedded into manufactured products, buried in environmental 
sensors, staring out from satellite cameras, guiding cars, and saturating 
our world with enough complexity to begin to learn. We will live inside this 
thing..."
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