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It seems that according to experts and the media, the following are
the future trends on the Web.
1. Internet Architecture Overhaul or a Computational Services Overlay ? by Intel
?Rather than replace the existing infrastructure of hardware and
software code, Gelsinger called for an entirely new network to sit
atop the existing Internet, one that could support new Web services,
adapt to security threats, and work around sudden bursts of traffic to
particular Web servers.?
?The new second layer would act as a monitoring and directing force
that would make better use of the current technology which sends
packets of information around the Web.?
?A model of such a network already exists in the form of PlanetLab, a
collection of 429 computer "nodes" in 181 sites around the world.?
?Intel outlines vision of future Internet?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5954861/
If you want to read a detailed explanation of the architecture of the
additional overlay of the Internet, the Intel website provides some
resources.
?The New Net?
http://www.intel.com/update/contents/rs09041.htm
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2. The Semantic Web- by Tim Berners-Lee (the Inventor of the World Wide Web)
?Suppose you?re browsing the Web and you find a seminar advertised,
and you decide to go. Now, there is all sorts of information on that
page, which is accessible to you as a human being, but your computer
doesn?t know what it means. So you must open a new calendar entry and
paste the information in there. Then get your address book and add new
entries for the people involved in the seminar. And then, if you
wanted to be complete, find the latitude and the longitude of the
seminar, and program that into your GPS [Global Positioning System]
device so you could find it.?
?It?s very laborious to do all this by hand. What you would like to be
able to do is just tell the computer, ?I?m going to this seminar.? If
there were a Semantic Web version of the page, it would have labeled
information on it that would tell the computer ?this is an event,? and
what time and date it is. And it would automatically add your travel
to your event book. It would add the people to your address book, and
it would program your GPS to give you directions. It would have the
relationships between the event and the various people chairing it.
And those people would have Semantic Web personal pages, which
contained information about how you could contact them.?
?Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp?p=0
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3. Teleliving
?Imagine teleworking with colleagues, buying and selling on-line,
consulting with your physician or just talking with a distant friend
-- all with life-sized images, as though they're right there in the
same room with you.?
?Rather than forcing us to hunch over a keyboard, this Intelligent
Internet should allow people everywhere to converse naturally and
comfortably with life-sized, virtual people while shopping, working,
learning and conducting most social relationships.?
?The TechCast project, a Web-based think tank that pools the knowledge
of experts to track the technology revolution, calls it TeleLiving --
a conversational human-machine interface that allows a more
comfortable and convenient way to interact.?
?A cyberspace odyssey?
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040916.gtsripfuture16/BNStory/Technology/
The next technologies featured here (Numbers 4 to 6) are considered by
experts as precursors to Teleliving but are still being developed.
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4. CAVE Technology
?The CAVE is a multi-person, room-sized, high-resolution 3D video and
audio environment invented at EVL in 1991. Graphics are projected in
stereo onto three walls and the floor, and viewed with active stereo
glasses equipped with a location sensor. As the user moves within the
display boundaries, the correct perspective is displayed in real-time
to achieve a fully immersive experience.?
?The CAVE Virtual Reality Theater?
http://www.evl.uic.edu/research/res_project.php3?indi=161
CAVE Technology can be used in the web as well through VRML.
?Most exciting is the ongoing development of VRML (Virtual Reality
Modeling Language) on the World Wide Web. In addition to HTML
(HyperText Markup Language), that has become a standard authoring tool
for the creation of home pages, VRML provides three-dimensional worlds
with integrated hyperlinks on the Web. Home pages become home spaces.
The viewing of VRML models via a VRML plug-in for Web browsers is
usually done on a graphics monitor under mouse-control and, therefore,
not fully immersive. However, the syntax and data structure of VRML
provide an excellent tool for the modeling of three-dimensional worlds
that are functional and interactive and that can, ultimately, be
transferred into fully immersive viewing systems.?
?Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction?
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/intro/
If you want to learn more about CAVE you can visit the UCLA website.
UCLA CVR Lab
http://www.cvrlab.org/
A sample project on providing CAVE technology in the classroom is
described in this paper.
?Extending the Use of Collaborative Virtual Environments for
Instruction to K-12 Schools?
http://www.sv.vt.edu/future/cave/pub/kriz_ael/insight.pdf
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5. Virtual Robots or avatars
In the article mentioned in number 3, the article mentions about
virtual robots or avatars populating the internet by 2010.
?Www.there.com is a multimedia website featuring 3-D
computer-generated environments populated with avatars that interact
with users and other avatars.?
?A cyberspace odyssey?
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040916.gtsripfuture16/BNStory/Technology/
A sample usage of a virtual robot can be seen in the next article.
?A is for avatar?
http://fleetowner.com/information_technology/patentpending/fleet_avatar/
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6. MIT Project Oxygen ?
?Last week, in a series of demonstrations at MIT's futuristic Stata
Center, researchers showed off a new reconfigurable microchip that
enables a mobile device to change, chameleon-like, from cellphone to
hand-held computer to music player; a 1,020-microphone array that can
isolate a single voice or conversation at a cocktail party; a family
of kiosks that use wireless technologies to provide a building's
employees and visitors with maps, up-to-the-minute information about
events in progress, and people's locations; a sensor network that can
track the movements of autonomous robots; and a voice-activated
software program that, in response to questions, dispatches
intelligent agents to crawl hundreds of thousands of Web pages and
recite weather forecasts or financial data.?
?MIT is readying new technologies that put humans in the center of computing?
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/06/21/oxygen_burst/
If you want to know more about Project Oxygen, you can visit the MIT Website.
MIT Project Oxygen
http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/index.html
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7. Project SEKT
?A European-funded project aims to revolutionise the way internet
search engines work.?
?Some of Europe's leading academic researchers will work to find a way
of making search engines behave more like humans.?
?EU aims to improve net searching?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3516088.stm
Additional Info on Project SEKT
http://sekt.semanticweb.org/
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8. Telehealth
?"Telehealth" uses developments in communications to send patients'
information to their doctors via a phone line.?
?Patients with heart conditions, for example, would be given a machine
which measures vital signs such as heart rate, weight and blood
pressure.?
?The information would then be sent down a telephone line,
automatically alerting a doctor or nurse at the other end if there was
a problem.?
?Home health plan for patients?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3653764.stm
?Within minutes, the machine checked Tisch's weight, blood pressure
and heart rate and asked him a few questions.?
?Results were zapped to a computer six miles away at the downtown
Jackson office of Great Lakes Home Health and Hospice, where health
workers checked the numbers for anything alarming.?
?Get used to this picture. Remote health monitoring, a trend that goes
by the buzzword telehealth, has arrived in Jackson.?
?Technology will change health monitoring for patients, doctors?
http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-10/109619325653700.xml
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9. Internet Voting
?Switzerland is set to make history by holding what authorities say is
the world's first national referendum in which some voters can cast
their ballots over the Internet.?
?Voters must visit the canton's special Web site and type in their
personal code to establish a secure connection, after which they
receive an online ballot form. They then have to type in the security
code and their date and place of birth.?
?Switzerland Tries Internet Voting?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/25/world/main645615.shtml
The United States is trying out a similar thing with their SERVE
System but the trials have been postponed due to security concerns.
?The Pentagon has abandoned an Internet voting system that was planned
for deployment this year.?
?Accenture's live SERVE prototype was designed to allow US citizens
overseas the chance to vote electronically in primary and general
elections, with 100,000 members of the military serving oversees the
first to trial the system.?
?But a scathing report by four experts concluded that it wasn't safe
in any circumstances.?
?Pentagon cans Internet voting system?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/06/pentagon_cans_internet_voting_system/
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10. Census Using the Internet
?In preparation of the 2010 census, U.S. Census Bureau officials are
running at least two tests to evaluate new methods and procedures
including data collection technologies, such as the Internet and
personal digital assistants.?
?Bureau officials will not release official population statistics
because the main thrust is to evaluate various methods and
technologies, said Kimberly Crews, the bureau's senior public affairs
specialist. However, in the overseas test, officials are exploring not
only the technology but also the feasibility of counting private U.S.
citizens who are not with the military or federal government.?
?Census tries PDAs, Web technology?
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0119/web-census-01-19-04.asp
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11. TVIP
?A new breed of TV -- featuring on-demand programs and choose-your-own
music video channels -- is delivered over phones lines that are
equipped with a high speed Internet connection.?
?TV over phone lines, also known as TV over Internet protocol (TVIP),
is already taking root in Europe, with offerings from France Telecom,
Italy's FastWeb, Britain's HomeChoice and others. There are many more
on the way, with Britain's top fixed-line phone company BT Group in
talks with content companies as it prepares to launch its own
service.?
?Next-Generation TV Streams Over Phone Lines?
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=6333655
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