Internet has only started

[rpm]

Internet has only started

While the Internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realised when far more people and information go on-line, its founders said on Wednesday.

 

[Th0r]

yup, and with so many countries that still use similar to dial-up connections or have no connection what so ever, there is still a lot of people to connect and with them more developement etc...

 

[LFX]

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed

LOL

perhaps in the rest of africa but not with teklom's greed and neotel's incompetence will we realise that here.

 

[Tweak]

LOL

perhaps in the rest of africa but not with teklom's greed and neotel's incompetence will we realise that here.

East africa might. But the whole of west coast africa stil relies on telkom's sat-3 cable system and are paying 50times the international standards for internet acess.

Suprised that we don't hear them complaining to South Africa about telkom.

Probably because telkom is the only undersea cable network we have. Sheisters

 

[Netguy]

Already the amount of information available is astounding, one major constraint often seems to be TIME

 

[CalmD]

I have a prediction.I think search engines will never get better than Google.That's just my opinion.

 

[Zombrainy]

In the next 10 years I think that (and it's just a guesstimation, not and expert or anything)

We will be able to upload a picture or sample of a rare video to google and it will be able to find better quality versions of them at lightning speed, and doing so will be commonplace.

Most people will have web-based multimedia centers in their living room, which can stream Super-HD (released in the next 5 years), And because of this companies like DSTV will start to lose revenue.

Facebook will not be the most popular social networking site.

An unknown new form of p2p file sharing will be the most popular, leaving torrents and news servers as secondary options.

South Africa will be just under 9 months behind all international technological advancement.

Telkom will have less than 20% of their current customers

Despite all these advancements net neutrality will still be an issue

The way on "piracy" will never, ever be won. Large companies will eventually realize this and will eventually stop DRM on a massive scale and provide better value to paying customers

 

[apogeeza]

And the next-generation internet to replace the transitional one we're in right now ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web

Of course, none of that Semantic stuff will happen for the 5% of Africa without pervasive affordable reliable broadband.