More than one side of the Internet: Access defines the web future

This is Lucy Ingham's article, he looked from the development of the form of access to the evolution of the Internet, that in order to adapt to different forms of access, in the future there may be many other forms of access difficult to understand the Internet. For example, some sites you wear Oculus Rift to see, some information only virtual assistants to understand. So he thinks the internet will break down in the future. But I think that's the future of a unified Semantic Web: Content remains the same, but it behaves in various forms. But it is not the HTML5 of the present that can serve as the unification. Maybe it's HTML10? Maybe it's xxmlx?

Because of the evolution of technology such as virtual reality, the future web will be a very different system depending on the way it is accessed, and even many people will think it is something completely different.

When the WWW was launched 25 years ago, only the university labs and the clunky PCs in the rich and geek family could access it.

Then the visit began to spread, first spreading to more ordinary computers, then spreading to laptops and PDAs, and finally to smartphones and tablets. Now our expectation is that almost everything from television to smart watches to music players will be accessible to the Web.

The ability of the Internet to empower us almost makes us superhuman. We can instantly find answers to almost any problem, and just use online resources to learn almost any skill.

In some countries, the internet has even been considered a human right, and it is important to prevent access to it as a nuisance.

The evolution of the Web

The internet we now know is only a step towards its future goals. Just as it is now far beyond the first page, the Internet will continue to change and develop under technology.

Most interestingly, however, the Internet will evolve into several forms depending on how it is accessed.

We are now beginning to see the budding of this evolution.

CSS3 Mobile Query makes the site depending on the access device will also have different rendering. While for most websites it's just a simplified version of a smartphone, there are people who tailor the content to fit the audience, using a completely different design.

But these are nothing to see in the future.

Now, although we may see different websites when we log on with a tablet or a desktop computer, the information we are exposed to is probably the same.

But in the future, we will visit the Internet in a number of different ways, and it may be necessary to show it in a way that is almost incompatible with each other.

Virtual reality and the future of Internet

While some technologies have yet to be invented, there are some technologies that appear to be expanding and dominating.

The most prominent is the virtual reality. Oculus Rift is close to consumer readiness, and technology giants such as Sony are finally moving into the field.

For most people, VR is just a game, but some people try to make it work on the web.

For anyone with a completely immersive internet dream in the "flying out of the future" scenario, the prospect is very exciting.

The pioneer in this field is the Janus VR project, a browser specifically designed for Oculus Rift development.

The most basic form of Janus VR is to reinterpret the web to 3D space, the link is the door, and the picture is a picture on the virtual wall. However, James McCrae, its inventor, also added Janus-specific code to allow web designers to add their own web sites.

Users who browse through a regular computer will not see the effect of this code, but if you are browsing through the web via Rift, users will be able to witness a completely 3D world and some interactive elements. Other users can even meet you here and communicate with each other through voice and text.

Janus VR is still at a very early stage, but its potential is obvious and its support is increasing. It may soon become a common way of browsing, with its own set of standards, completely independent of the traditional web.

Listening to the Web through virtual assistants

The expected rise of virtual assistants (Apple Siri, Google now, etc.) also provides another possible alternative to the future web.

Chris Brauer of the University of London believes that virtual Assistants (VA) are likely to become a major point of contact for the future web.

We can ask our virtual assistants questions, and then the latter will provide answers via web search.

If the virtual helper becomes so, the web design will undoubtedly evolve to match (at least in part).

Just as Web design trends have been close to the best way to get high Google rankings, Web content is increasingly being presented in ways that are meaningful to the access of virtual assistants, rather than to human access.

Given that some of us still want to access the web through traditional means, this information is likely to end up in its own independent space-a part of the Internet that only virtual assistants can access, just as the VR Web is accessible only in VR-compatible browsers.

The future of the internet break

There is no doubt that there will be other forms of access in the future (note: For example, like the hacker Empire, connector with the human neural network, the realization of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, psychological signal transmission will occur?) Requires a different version of the Web to fit, giving rise to new advances in technology that is currently just an idea.

All this will lead to the advent of the thousand-face Internet-although there is only one system, the code for each type of access will be unreadable for other forms of access.

As a result, the Internet we access on a variety of devices will have a fundamentally different way of presenting it, and the difference is that it makes the non-tech user think that it's a completely separate thing.

The internet, as we know it, will be one of them, and may even be gradually obliterated as other access patterns become increasingly popular.