Future Possibilities of the Internet

Internet: Future Possibilities

Internet, mostly referred simply as "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computers.

Wikipedia defines it as a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative, and self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Being said that, the internet offers a wide range of future possibilities that may or may not be helpful to mankind.

Future Possibilities on Information

1. Think about FriendFeed as your own personal newsroom or communications center.
2. Revisit Reddit as a news source, and also as a roll-your-own tool for information clustering.
3. Use Alltop as an idea-starter, or as competitive analysis of content spaces.
4. Cook up six powerful searches on Twitter Search and add those RSS outputs to your feed reader.
5. Visit Slideshare weekly and search for new presentations to learn from.
6. Use YouTube as a source for lectures and learning. Use Magnify as a curation tool.
7. Rediscover what’s interesting in Delicious/Popular. Go back and find tags that matter more to you.
8. Reconsider your current blog reading list. Do some quick math. If it is more than 60% related to your industry, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Find the outliers.
9. Pick at least one news source from outside your country to monitor information from a different perspective. One of my sources is The Guardian.
10. Subscribe to at least one blog with a strong opposing view. Learn from it. Learn where your position is different. Learn how they say what they say successfully. Discover what has impact and what doesn’t.

There are many more possibilities on the internet. As technology advances, more and more possibilities becomes available. Its all up to us how we deal with the future possibilities of the internet.