More cloud hosting. I think browsers have a lot more life in them than you think. A lot of tech heads predict people will use "browser type" operating systems in the future. Simply sit at any computer in the world, and then log into your browser based operating system.
What will the Internet look like in 2020?
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I tend to think more about how people will regard the internet in a few more years.
I think the concept of being "online" is very nearly dead, and will almost certainly die for most people within the next 20 years. What used to be a distinct event will become a state of being, and the applications, protocols, and interfaces of the web will seek to integrate themselves into peoples lives even more so than they already have.
I think the concept of being "online" is very nearly dead, and will almost certainly die for most people within the next 20 years. What used to be a distinct event will become a state of being, and the applications, protocols, and interfaces of the web will seek to integrate themselves into peoples lives even more so than they already have.
I don't see mobile as an evolution of the web, so much as a new medium for accessing it. I almost view it as a separate web in itself. You do very different things on your mobile to your desktop for the most part.
For example I don't tend to read tons of content on my mobile. I play games, check email, reply to urgent emails, and use a few apps for note taking, stat tracking and so forth. It's very unnatural to read long articles or absorb much info via a mobile I find.
Most people on WF have WP based sites, and they tend to be pretty naturally mobile friendly, too. It's worth developing a mobile site once you're getting substantial mobile traffic though, to reduce bounce rates and increase engagement (helps with brand awareness as much as anything). My main issue with mobile is how much more difficult it is to monetise. Mobile visitors for the most part aren't looking to buy anything and have minimal commercial intent, which makes it very difficult to get much of a positive ROI on developing and maintaining a good mobile website.
The real money in mobile atm is in app development. It's going to be interesting though as frameworks improve (e.g. Sencha) and web-apps opened on your mobile can be more like native apps. I quite heavily expect platform native apps to reduce in popularity, with more people using web-based apps as they begin to behave more like native apps [and native apps being saved for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Games, etc].
It doesn't make sense for users to have to fill up their phones with hundreds of apps.
This.
The debate has been long fought over whether computers should be a natural part of all appliances or whether there will be a single appliance such as a desktop computer in the home.
I think its clear that we will have smart appliances throughout a smart home, stuff that works without people even knowing how it works, it just does. That will enable market penetration throughout the uneducated world and at the same time allow the world to remain uneducated, or to be less conspiratorial, to remain interested in their own areas of specialization leaving the "appliance" to its maker.
No doubt there will be a desktop of some sort where someone can still work, but for each type of work there will be specialty appliances for that work. Think NCIS LA - they just use the machine in a natural way, few know how it really works.
I have been wondering when we will move past the "phone book" concept of the internet that Google gives us, but I have yet to see how it will be accomplished. We will still need to research what we want, few of us will just take the computers word for it that the source of the research is accurate, as in the case of Siri (or what I know of Siri), except of course for commodities like who streams a movie etc.
By 2020 all of the intertubes will be clogged up and there won't be any internet.
How do you know we aren't already?
How do you know we aren't already?
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