Taking all factors into consideration, there will be a 10 network trend in the next 10 year.
1. Semantic World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners Lee (the founder of the Web) has been an important focus for a long time. In fact, it is as magical as Moby Dick. In a word, semantic gateway involves the dialogue between machines, making the network more intelligent, or, as Berners-Lee described, computers "analyze all data-content, links and transaction processing between man and machine" in the network. On another occasion, Berners-Lee described it as "a network-like program designed for data", such as the design of information reuse.
As Alex wrote in To the Semantic Web, the core of the Semantic Web is to create metadata that can handle the meaning of things to describe data. Once the computer is equipped with semantic web, it will solve complex semantic optimization problems.
Therefore, when will the semantic web era come? Components for creating semantic web have appeared: RDF, OWL, and these microformats are just one of many components. However, Alex pointed out in the article that it takes some time to interpret the information of the world, and then capture personal information in an appropriate way. Some companies, such as Hakia, Powerset and Alex's own adaptive blue, are actively implementing the semantic web, so we will get closer in the future, but we will have to wait for many years to see the realization of the semantic web.
2. Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence may be an ultimate goal in computer history. Since 1950, alan turing put forward the Turing test for testing machines such as man-machine conversation ability, artificial intelligence has become the dream of computer scientists.
In the next network development, artificial intelligence makes machines smarter. In this sense, it is similar to the semantic web in some ways.
We have started to apply some low-level artificial intelligence to some websites. Amazon.com has begun to introduce artificial intelligence and its task management service together with mechanical Turks. It enables computer programs to adjust the application of artificial intelligence to accomplish tasks that computers could not accomplish before. Since the establishment of 5438+065438+ 10 in June 2005, mechanical Turks have gradually gained some followers. There is a forum where "Turk people" gather called Turk country, and it seems that many people have visited it. But when we reported on 5438+ 10 in June, it seemed that there were not as many users as when it was first established.
Despite this, artificial intelligence has given the network a lot of promises. Artificial intelligence technology is now being used in some "Search 2.0" companies, such as Hakia and Powerset. Numenta is an exciting company, founded by jeff hawkins (inventor of handheld computer) with legendary technology. It tries to establish a new brain like computing paradigm by using neural networks and cellular automata. This means that Numenta is trying to use computers to solve some problems that are easy for us, such as recognizing faces or feeling the style in music. With the computing speed of computers far exceeding that of human beings, we hope that new boundaries will be broken so that we can solve some problems that could not be solved before.
3. Virtual world
As a future network system, Second Life has attracted the attention of many mainstream media. But at a recent supernova group meeting attended by Sean AmmiratiI, some opportunities involving many other virtual worlds were discussed. The following figure is a good summary:
Take South Korea as an example. With the growth of the "younger generation" and the construction of infrastructure (network), the virtual world will become a dynamic market all over the world in the future 10.
It not only involves digital life, but also makes our real life more digital. Alex said, on the one hand, we are already rapidly developing Second Life and other virtual worlds. On the other hand, we have begun to interpret the earth with digital information through technology, such as GOOGLE Earth.
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Mobile network is another promising network application in the future. Some cities in Asia and Europe are developing rapidly. The launch of Apple iphone this year is a landmark event of mobile network in the American market. But this is really just the beginning. In the coming 10 year, more location-aware services will be realized by mobile devices. For example, when visiting local shopping malls, you will receive a lot of customized shopping offers, or you will receive map information when driving, or you will receive interesting information when you are with friends on Friday night. We also expect large Internet companies such as Yahoo and Google to become major mobile portals and mobile phone operators.