The future

The internet of course has come a long way since its inception in 1990. So where does the future of the internet lead us. We'll take a brief look at this in this article.



The world of information technology is very dynamic. It has progressed rapidly and is becoming more and more wide spread. One particular reason for the growth in internet is the fact that the potential benefits of internet communication far outweigh those of its drawbacks. In a global community where profit is (sadly) the motive the result is ethical or morals values are tarnished to obtain the advantage in ease of communication and lower costs. The amusing part played by such people is that they often use internet as a means to confuse us. Many company's which are being advertised or told to us by the internet as safe or favorable or good, are sometimes merely using marketing tactics to put face, whilst its real operations are hidden.

In stating this, by no means am I saying that internet communications are 'evil'. In fact I believe in the exact opposite. The internet and its ability to communicate, is like many things in this world, a resource which has been inspired into human kind. A resource itself is neither good nor bad, it is up to us to use it in the proper manner. Thank fully there are people, places and corporations starting to do so. Particularly due to the fact that more and more people are increasingly becoming aware of how this resource is being misused.

Though this may be the case we are of course still a ways of from switching to using internet communication completely. Though internet communications is a wonderful treasure trove of knowledge, like all treasures it is ridden with threats and dangers. We have become aware of the internet, but we have yet to become aware of the dangers it poses to us. Once we accept this fact and begin to recognize that these threats are evolving we may be able to use internet communications in such a way that is absolute.

As such after much research our team found that it was truly impossible for us to find out about what the internet may evolve into the future and what it can do to communications. There were so many theories and so many possibilities that listing and explaining them out would be difficult in itself. Instead we are content to point to this peculiar link.

http://www.elon.edu/predictions/RecentSubmissions.aspx

Which provides a surprising array of possibilities regarding the internet and communication. Hopefully some of the more idealistic notions in this page will be implemented on an ethical and acceptable basis.



In the end however I cannot believe that internet communication will ever overtake conventional talking. Though we may be socially active online, and though the internet can bridge so long a distance, nothing and I mean truly nothing can compare to talking to your loved one face to face.