The Internet is Dead

So here is my attempt at being Orwellian, while the technological signs are definitely pointed in the same direction as the hypothesis I came up with in the tiny little brain I call mine.

The Internet is Dead. Or at least in the future it will not exist. But here's the kicker, it's not that the world wide web won't be around, it's that it will become seamless. Meaning all of our computers will be connected to each other on the same network by default. So you will always be online. There won't be an offline state for your computer. You won't be saving files to a local hard drive. Instead you will be saving them, on what the pundits are coining currently, as the cloud. Well the cloud is about to become reality.

In fact, I don't even believe we'll have any PC hardware at home. The most we will have is a monitor and perhaps a mouse. You won't need a keyboard if your display is touch screen. Your monitor will be connected to one port in your wall that will connect you to the 'Network'. Or perhaps the monitor will be wireless? In that case, you just plug it in to get electricity.

This technology isn't even that far fetched. Google is in the talks of creating G-Drives which are hard drives that you find online. Which means you can store your files on a Google hard drive and access it from anywhere in the world.

Think Google's stock can't grow even more? Think again. There's a reason why the brains behind Google, Eric, Sergey and Larry, are investing heavily in infrastructure and computer hardware. It's because they have a long term vision of essentially being the single storage device for...well...for everybody.

Of course the major concerns with the setup are security and privacy. That will be an ongoing problem but I think it will be one everyone will settle to battle.

As for Apple, Dell, and Microsoft? They'll play big roles in technology but they will have to commit to buying some serious hardware to compete with Google. And do you think Google would allow MS Windows to run on Google hard drives? Doubt it. And yes I do mean that even your entire Operating System will be running off of these remote hard drives.

The next big player in my theory will be the Cable companies. Yup, good ol Rogers Communications here in Canada, and the big wig cable companies in the US are all going to play a major factor in ensuring, that all of our information will travel through this entire network quickly and securely. The speeds that they have to match are the ones our current local PCs are maintaining through their computer's 'buses'. Which isn't some unrealistic vision. With the advent of Fibre Obtic cable, this technology isn't that far away either.

So enjoy your Internet and admire your giant PC workstations cuz they won't be around for that much longer.

I think Orwell would be proud.