Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb recently highlighted 10 future web trends to look out for over the next 10 years.
semantic web
artificial intelligence
virtual worlds including Second Life
mobile web
attention economy
web sites as web services
online video / internet tv
rich internet apps
international web
personalization
And after getting a lot of useful comments, he created an other list.
Integration into everyday devices: health-monitoring bathroom?
Hyperlocal
Data retrievel/manipulation agents
Read/Write/Request Web (a.k.a. a "living machine agent")
User-controlled, open Internet Identity
New forms of Internet Interaction: “flexible OLED touch-screens, new visualisation technologies”
Extended Reality: full sensory coupling with the virtual world
Expert Systems
Blog reading automatically input into our brain:
In 10 years time, we won’t have to worry about RSS Readers at all - everything we need to know on a daily basis will be automatically input into our brains each morning while we’re eating our breakfast.
Personalized Medicine:
this has been on the cards for some time, but in the not too distant future our medical details will be online and the networking aspects of the Internet will be utilized to improve the way medicine is prescribed. As a recent report noted: “Imagine this: you visit your clinician, undergo genetic testing, and then you are handed a miniature hard drive containing your personal genome sequence, which is subsequently uploaded onto publicly accessible databases.
Posted by: Bertalan
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