Looking Ahead: Future of the Internet

Having already lived with the Internet for so many years of our life, one can only envision the boundless potentials that could come in time for the Internet. Where is it all going?

In future, we can only imagine how everything can be made simpler and more convenient by the Internet.

In 2019, for students, the e-learning we are doing now would be a thing of the old. Perhaps even this scenario would be considered outdated.


Learning in the future might even consist of projections of each individual involved in the teaching and learning process right to the sides of each participant, where students from different countries and spanning different national boundaries could interact and learn from each other as though they were right beside each other.

In other aspects of everyday life, this could be what we will be seeing and using in the future.



Information about anyone and everyone can probably be easily obtained through the Internet in future as more and more of us as individuals get 'stored' in the everlasting database of the Internet. In current times, we have employers checking facebook accounts of their employees. In the future, anyone might be able to check up on details of every other person through the Internet, if the situation is not carefully controlled. Interpersonal relations may be affected beyond our recognition as social media essentially promotes interaction through a medium instead of in person.

The Internet will become a place where everyone is trying to grasp a piece of every Internet users attention, be it for commercial, political, or other purposes. The Internet will be like a free market where users are 'up for grabs'.

Privacy and Internet security issues will be abundant as despite any obvious risks, the importance of the Internet in our everyday lives will only increase with time as we ourselves, and the young children that come after us, are taught to be dependent on the convenience and functionality of the Internet.