Sunday, 21 August 2011

Week 12 - Web 101

This week we were asked to discuss the future of the Internet and what we would imagine the Internet would be like in five years time.

In five years time, I would imagine search engines and the like will become that much faster, and perhaps we would be able to get the right answers instead of a multitude of wrong answers. Machines would fire up instantly ready to work (or play). I would hope that the windows platform would for once, be stable and perfect on the first release.

Scientifically, I think there will be more of a difference in five years. Already major changes have come about by using computers and highly sophisticated software. I was at the dentist just this week, and they used a machine to build a porcelain filling! The dentist put a gadget against my tooth and pressed a few buttons and actually built the filling in 3d!! Then she left to go to another room to get it and bring it back! I knew things were getting better, but I never believed a filling could be so much fun!! So on that note, I can see the likes of dentures being designed on a computer, getting rid of the ill fitting, ugly, just plain wrong dentures that people are being forced to wear today.

Personally after studying this unit, I think in five years time, Google will not have much more to say about me than it does today. I will be more careful as to not disclose anything I do not want to be reminded of in the future. I was already painfully aware of digital footprints and the like, but knowing just how well the Internet remembers every little thing you do in some way, I will not be taking chances.
Of course if I become fabulously famous then I will rethink that ;P

No comments:

Post a Comment