Will the Internet keep its position in 15 years? What will be its functions? How to change the sites? Let's answer this question by looking in the recent past - 12 years ago ...
The World Wide Web had an audience of about 250 million people. The sites did not represent too colorful collections of texts. The bandwidth of the channel and the amount of traffic limited the number of illustrations. The processing of information was carried out according to current standards on fairly low-power systems, with a small amount of constant and operational memory. Servers also made you want better ...
Technical restrictions, of course, prevented the full disclosure of the creativity of web developers. They always so wanted to pour a piece of pozaboristey and pozalvahche in order to fully implement their insistent plans to implement a personal vision for the development of the site ... But the scale was not the same in order to start such projects. Time passed, the number of connected people grew faster 1000 times than the number of our beloved planet.
The shape of the Network has changed: in addition to the fact that now the Internet is an indispensable provider of mass media, it is also a means of modern communications, interactive entertainment, earnings and self-expression!
But this is not the limit! The development of science and technologies contributed to this domination, making the Internet all accessible: from desktop PCs to modern gadgets (GalaxyTAB, iPAD, etc.), the development of which, by and large, the future. Powerful graphics processors now allow you to parallelize the calculations, which helps solve numerical problems of high complexity for the entire Internet community.
The technologies of completely new manipulators of the virtual space are now being considered by offices that are eager to release them! Absolutely everything develops rapidly! What will happen in the future? Let's make a small forecast about the appearance of a simple site and the role of the Network in five, ten and fifteen years.
Five years.
This is a transitional period in which flash-technology will outlive its era. Besides the fact that they are very cumbersome, they are not always convenient to use, they are not too pivotal and complex. On websites, the amount of unnecessary text decreases, a lot of attention is paid to the visual series, notable headlines, due to a more vivid combination of colors that have not been popular before. Static in the design of the site is a thing of the past.
Let's consider an example: we plan to create such a site, the color scheme of which would correspond to lighting outside the window and would have to visit. For this we need to have user coordinates, since it is necessary to adjust to the conditions (even if the forecast coincided). But all this is flowers, but berry is the implementation in a flash-application of a large number of combinations (different colors, construction of complex algorithms, ).
How to deal with this? Such work can be done by the user's computer through a 3d application with a set of standard instructions. Graphics cards in our time allow much more! According to the latest data, at the moment there is a development of applications like WebGl, which will lead us to the future appearance of the Internet.
Ten years.
3d-sites will become the norm, the former formats will be redone to new ones, which will become the earnings of the Internet design community, where developers of 3D programs will certainly connect. The technology of mobile devices will not lag behind in development. Unlike the current inpatient clinics, they will easily operate with huge data sets, as well as perform full-function media centers and metacommunications. In large cities, life without electronics will no longer be possible! Even the loading of the assortment in stores will be carried out in the metacommunicator. Availability of the necessary goods will be displayed by the message. The function of the sites will be completely different. They will serve as a tool for selecting goods and services in any area of coverage of the Network. Advertising will rapidly develop in a new and unpredictable direction and look for better ways.
Fifteen years.
Computer technologies mature to such that soon we will depart from the usual tactile control of machines. The process of work will be steered by hands (and also legs, ears, noses and heads), which will lead to the work of the Internet in a truly three-dimensional graphics. The user will be in the usual space, controlling his hands, and not watching the process from the side. To be a full participant in the task is millions of new sensations. Sites will be almost like real estate, will be just as expensive and become a business by themselves. Many fantastics of the 20th century dreamed of this new virtual world, and it is just around the corner ...