Internet Communications
The Internet really enabled content at a distance of data. I think what we have already seen is not going to be
the most important part of the Internet. It was just the first wave of the Internet. So we are going to see radical levels of collaboration. Just as Wikipedia defines collaboration on content, we will see a web site like Curiosity.com, if it were built 10 years from now, built around the world possibly by hundreds or thousands of people who don't necessarily work together, and who don't even necessarily get paid.
We will see a merging of various forms of entertainment, i.e. these massively parallel online gaming environments and movies, taking us into places that have dramatic arcs that can have directorial authorship but offer choice within the game or movie. We will see a reconnection of the Internet to the physical world.
Right now, the Internet is a place we have to go and kind of pretend that we are not somewhere in a particular place. The Internet will cease to be something that we think of as a place. It will be an infrastructure which supports everything we do in our lives: Every glass that you pick up, every door handle that you grab will know who you are and it will respond to you appropriately. We will come to see the Internet as almost something like a force that pervades our physical environment rather than this separate, ethereal world that we leave the physical world to go to.
the most important part of the Internet. It was just the first wave of the Internet. So we are going to see radical levels of collaboration. Just as Wikipedia defines collaboration on content, we will see a web site like Curiosity.com, if it were built 10 years from now, built around the world possibly by hundreds or thousands of people who don't necessarily work together, and who don't even necessarily get paid.
We will see a merging of various forms of entertainment, i.e. these massively parallel online gaming environments and movies, taking us into places that have dramatic arcs that can have directorial authorship but offer choice within the game or movie. We will see a reconnection of the Internet to the physical world.
Right now, the Internet is a place we have to go and kind of pretend that we are not somewhere in a particular place. The Internet will cease to be something that we think of as a place. It will be an infrastructure which supports everything we do in our lives: Every glass that you pick up, every door handle that you grab will know who you are and it will respond to you appropriately. We will come to see the Internet as almost something like a force that pervades our physical environment rather than this separate, ethereal world that we leave the physical world to go to.
By Dr. Astro Teller Director of New Projects, Google
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