Is the internet smart? Are apps the most we could currently hope for, at our current epoch, out of the internet? Are apps really harnessing the power the internet could provide? Is this really it? Or is it time we start thinking about how the internet can function in ways to the average person more than Google searches and vanity apps to make our lives “easier .” A large infrastructure change, not just an interface change is what will make the internet dynamic. The only enhancements I see are the differing sizes of screens. Why are we so hung up on different screen sizes? Pads, phones, laptops. Pads, phones, laptops. Oh yea, and Google Glass which is just another screen size affixed to the head. Companies have turned our desire for change into a unidimensional one in the way we use the internet. How sad? Why have we let businesses like Google determine what the internet is for everyone? Information. Is that all it is? Information that, for my average search, 90% of which is not significant to me. Are 296 million search results efficient when I only ever need one? And, maybe more importantly, have the rest of us given up in lieu of allowing these huge companies to determine the future?
The internet has done a lot of really great and interesting things. Economies of scale, accelerated technological advancement, communications connectivity, etc. But aren’t all these really simply an affect of the information age brought on by the thing and not the thing itself?
“…lesser than I expected.”
Driverless cars, quantum computers, improvements in home and personal safety, medicine and health diagnostics. Is the internet only about what’s coming and not what’s here now? It feels like we’re always waiting in the potential of the internet without ever participating in the kinesis of it.
App designs are taking the brunt of this future possibility, but for me, it just seems… lesser than I expected.
With companies like Google and Apple stuck in the information age, my guess is we probably will not see much in the way of agile infrastructure changes for some time. The information age still of course has much room with which to grow and evolve. But, it seems like we’ll have to wait until it’s done playing out until we see smarter, more dynamic progress in the Internet world.