Future of the Internet?
The Internet five years from now? Dominated by the Chinese language and full of social media content.
So envisions Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a symposium where he said figuring out how to rank real-time social content is “the great challenge of the age.” His thoughts on five years in the future:
– Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
– Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years; they jump from one subject to another seamlessly.
– Five years is a factor of ten in what has been known as “Moore’s Law,” meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
– Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance, and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
– Web content will move towards more video.
– It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources.
By David Wilkening
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