Week 11 EOC: The Future of The Internet

The Internet being 40 years old has changed drastically over the course of the last ten years. In its beginning stages the Internet was not widely used or even heard of to many. In the past decade we have become more exposed to the Internet as companies and individuals have taken to the Internet to provide us with the ultimate shopping experience or communication portal. For the most part, the world is online. When the Internet first began there was no idea that we’d be able to pay our bills online, talk with a relative thousands of miles away or have to worry about our personal and private information being stolen from Internet databases. Our modern Internet has given birth to a fear for our safety and privacy paving the way for societies to adapt legislation geared at the virtual world. Today we are presented with the possibilities of the Internet allowing us to be virtually present in more places than one at any given moment. The Internet is allowing us to share information from all over the world to develop technology that would have once taken years to come to. "I think by accident we're going to stumble on conscious computers that have feelings and look at you and understand how you're doing," he said. "My iPhone has almost all the senses I have except taste and smell. It has an eye and an ear and it can feel when I am touching it and it can feel when it is being moved. It even knows where in the world it is from GPS. Even I don't know that. I wake up and say "am I home?"." says Steve Wozniak about the future of the Internet. (Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks about future of the web during visit to Whistler: Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun). The future of the Internet will be grand but will call for a sacrifice of even more “old world ways” as it will allow for the digital age to flourish into something bigger.