Article: The Future of the Internet
2006
19
Apr
Here is an article recently published on the Red Herring site (from the April 10th print issue) — The Future of the Internet: in a decade, the Net will dig deeper into our lives*.
An excerpt: “If Mr. Cerf and about two dozen other pundits Red Herring interviewed about the future of the Internet are right, in 10 years’ time the barriers between our bodies and the Internet will blur as will those between the real world and virtual reality.”
Elaine Watson
*Editor's Note: The link to this article has been removed. It is no longer available from the Red Herring site.
The future of the Internet
Engineers have already tested the system successfully. Trials with consumers
could start as early as this summer, says Bill St. Arnaud, senior director
of advanced networks at CANARIE, a Canadian industry and government
consortium that is developing next-generation Internet technologies.
Scary.