Política de cookies

GNOSS usa cookies, propias y de terceros, con finalidad principalmente técnica y necesaria para la prestación de nuestros servicios.Más información sobre nuestra política de cookies. 

 

ACEPTA para confirmar que has leído la información y aceptado su instalación.Puedes modificar la configuración de tu navegador. 

Life online: The Web in 2020 A study by the Social Issues Research Centre on behalf of Rackspace Managed Hosting

Vida online: la Web en 2020 es un trabajo del Social Issues Research Centre redactado por Zoe Khor y el Dr Peter Marsh en diciembre de 2006, que, en lo sustantivo, mantiene su actualidad. Son éstas las principales referencias del estudio tal y como ellos las presentan:
"The Web in 2020 will see:
Technology convergence, heralding a single personal email/phone number for life and ‘always on’ connectivity coverage which – technically at least – has 100% global coverage…
Software as a service will be the norm. This will involve outsourcing and streamlining everything from video conferencing to supply chain management…
Mobile Web and Internet interfaces will increasingly no longer take the form of high end luxury gadgets, but will instead become utilities. We will still think of them as tools, but by 2020 they will increasingly have become ‘transparent’. Like pen and paper they will be norms, which when in use, become extensions of our bodies…
• Technologies and applications which ‘make it’ will have stood the Technological Darwinism test. That is, they will enhance an already existing basic human need, such as the need to communicate, exchange goods and services, and shape our own identities, etc…
• The emergence of the Web and other Internet applications as a ‘glocal’ agora. A market place, meeting place and forum for gossip, debate, politics, entertainment and more, potentially creating…
• … a more socially aware generation – instead of seeing a rise in ‘web based personality disorders’, the space which online communities and social networking sites provide for ‘face work’ will see a generation of highly socialised and culturally sensitive individuals…
Work spaces and work time will be more fluid (for some)…
The Internet will be green – relying on technologies that require reduced energy, alternative energy sources and offsetting of contributions to carbon emissions
• The Web, online communities and social networking sites will have facilitated the development of an alternative economy. Supplementing a cash economy with a ‘relative economy’ this will see goods, services and time ‘traded’ by individuals, groups and perhaps even businesses both locally and across the world…
• The distribution of mainstream mass media – TV, film, music – will have changed significantly. Already Channel 42 have announced plans to sell domestic programmes over the internet. On demand pay-per-view packages, as well as ‘bottom up’ cultural production as facilitated by YouTube, will see media consumption further personalised and diversified…
• After some early teething problems, voting will be carried out online and via mobile technologies, this will have increased turn out figures, and resulted in more referendums being called…
• ... However, several Digital Divides will persist. One will be a self-selecting ‘lifestyle’ demographic of largely middle class individuals living in the post-industrial West who will ‘drop out’ of the ICT revolution in a ‘Luddite’ by choice movement… the other, more disconcertingly, will be large numbers of people in Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Asia and South America who simply do not have the means to ‘connect’ to the Internet…"

mode_comment comentarios (0)

¿Quieres comentar? Regístrate o inicia sesión