Will the existing Internet model disappear? The era of "world data stream"

Beijing Time February 3 News, according to foreign media reports, the United States Wired Magazine Network Edition recently published in the Yale University computer science professor David Groenstedt (David Gelernter), "We now use the space based network will gradually be based on the time of the" World Data flow (Worldstream) replaced. Information will flow continuously and steadily through the "world data stream" to past points in time. Because the main function of computers in the near future is to access the flow of streaming global networks, we will be less concerned about computing devices themselves.

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People are always curious to ask: what will the next generation of Internet look like? But the truth is, there will be no next generation of Internet.

The space-based network we are using now will gradually be replaced by the Worldstream "World data Stream". This scene has taken place and begins with the form of "Life Data Flow" (Lifestream). Eric Freeman and I had predicted the "life data stream" in the 90 's, and published articles in the Wired world by 16.

Life Data flow is a real-time stream of content searchable with different kinds of information, and current blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook walls and timelines, and other chat streams fall into this category. Its architecture highlights the direction in which data flows from the "desktop plain model" to more in-depth representations of specific points of time.

This is like the transition from a desktop to a magical diary: We can record the contents of each page diary, and the diary will automatically page, so that we can track their every moment of action. The page will stop until you pick up the diary. To some extent, this diary becomes a reference to life: a complete and traceable guide to life. If you put it down, the diary will start to page.

Now, this diary-like architecture is replacing space as the main criterion in the Internet arena. All the information on the network quickly becomes a time architecture based information. In a byte-standard world, a space based architecture is in a static state. Time based architecture is more dynamic and more liquid, which is consistent with the characteristics of time.

The internet will become history.

Small metaphor contains great wisdom

So far, the internet we use has always been based on space. The diary is based on time. Time seems easier to understand because we naturally weave our lives into stories in chronological order. We have accumulated more than 20 years of experience in the field of computing to build today's network. And we in this field also from the initial try to save resources development to unbridled waste of resources. In this new environment, we pay more attention to the practical and best way to make the Internet work, rather than the cheapest or most economical way to achieve this goal.

Today, the most important function of the Internet is to release the latest news to let people know what is happening nowadays. That's why so many time-based, real-time information streams are springing up because they meet the need for the latest data. Both tweets and timeline are data streams in chronological order and designed to inform people of the latest news.

Of course, we can still browse or search the past, because time is always shuttling back and forth in cyberspace. Any information object can be added to the "current" and slowly become the data of the past, just like a branch drifting in a stream. You can put files, text, and traditional Web sites into the data stream, which can be transformed into a content-searchable cloud-computing filesystem.

If we put all these blogs, sources of information, chat data and so on together, what would it look like? If each time stream on the network is aggregated into a stream of data, we get the "World data Stream": A way of taking cyberspace as a whole.

No one can really pry into the whole "world of data streams" because most of the information flowing through the web is personal. However, everyone can see a part of it.

It's like an old-fashioned well, we need to use a wooden bucket tied with a rope to fetch water, and the bucket needs to go deep into the well. This well of time is infinitely deep, so the bucket has to go deep in order to hit the water, and the rope here needs to be long enough so that we have to keep releasing more rope (the infinite scrolling experience we currently have on many time streaming sites is actually releasing the rope). The bucket represents the beginning of the world's data stream, the oldest data, and the rope axle represents the present;

The current web sites are static, and information flows through the "World data stream" to the past point of time steadily and steadily. What does all this mean?

Data flow radically changes the search market

Today's operating systems, browsers, and search patterns will become obsolete because people don't want to be tied down by computers or websites anymore.

What people really want is access information. Since there are countless separate "life data Streams" in cyberspace, our basic software will become a "data Browser": It is functionally consistent with current web browsers, but it can add, subtract, and navigate data streams.

Each new data stream is a "life data stream." The Data Flow Browser will help us find and access the information we want, it's like a custom coffee mixer: We have thousands of different streams of "flavors", where we choose the data that fits our "taste", and then the stirring rods can stir and then sort our data streams.

The content of each website is not limited by space. The content becomes part of the regular time stream. For example, I can not rely on Amazon to inform me whether I have the most important contemporary Jewish writer Cynthia Ozk (Cynthia Ozick) or a new book about Florence, Italy, I can synthesize the data of several booksellers, and then enter my search content. Because data flow algorithms allow the addition of data streams (such as new books) and deletions (e.g., Florence and OZK).

E-commerce has been developing rapidly. We don't have to struggle to find new data streams at all, and today's network architecture allows us to access thousands of of physical stores at home. The time based "world data stream" enables us to sit at home and be able to survey the trend of personalization on the Internet.

"World Data Flow" allows us to reconcile the information we need: like my favorite Yale Football News, new book shelves, and shopping recommendations are all brought together into my email, other text, blog posts, files, and calendar reminders.

Does this precise control limit the natural contingency of the network? In a way, yes. But it all has to do with time: After all, "Give me what I want" is always a more efficient option than "Let me search myself aimlessly and see what I can find". No matter how fast it looks, most searches are a waste of time. From this point of view, we are using time (time based architecture) to buy time.

To avoid endless independent searches, we pressed the data stream browser button to keep getting the information we wanted.

This future trend not only kills the familiar operating system, browsers and search, but also changes the meaning of "computing" as we know it. Regardless of the size of the device (such as a smartphone or tablet), the main function of the computer in the near future is to access the flow of global network data, which is like a car-radio device receiving a radio signal. We will be more focused on the information world and the life we are associated with, so we will be less concerned about computing devices themselves.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)