Back in the halcyon days of the World Wide Web, the first full year of the web browser prompted people to consider the future of the Internet. Where do you see the web heading by 2020?

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Ahhh, I remember this time well, Dutter. I had been working on staff for AOL for about two years in an area called the Virtual Leadership Academy (really), training guides, chat room hosts and community leaders when the first search engine came to AOL.

It was called WebCrawler and boy it did crawl. I do believe we had advanced into the 28800 baud at the time, however.

For all its foibles and nightmare sp@m, we have come a long way out of the darkness. I was terrified when I left AOL to begin designing sites in the mid 90's.

It seems like so long ago.

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I expect in the near future the web browser of today will become more personalized. Today the browser is a mere tool that acts for me but does not provide any additional services. Marketers always want to measure the web surfers viewing habits often by measuring the time spent reading a web page, or to determine the number of pages viewed so as to elaborate more so on the frequency of usage than perhaps understanding what item of interest I am looking for. At best the terminology in play is referenced for future searches or that a list is generated showing the history of events that I have encountered.

Yet, the longer and harder I search for an item or piece of knowledge the less and less I am able to receive additional support from either the browser or the "cookiez" the marketer has placed on my machine. It is obvious to me that I need help. It could simply be the right size of something that I am trying to find, or its complete product line. The value of said goods given is also a function of my location and the time in which I require to have use of the material that is gainful and purposeful to my life style.

The host of material goods, or the knowledge required to make rational decisions and the fore thought to determine the merits of having such things can be quantitatively defined and their value to me measured in a way that could serve to help one make material judgments.

Today's browsers don’t even know my shoe size, let alone my height, age, or understand the area of interest I have and the area of interest I am leading up to. I hope the next Yahoo that tries to build a search engine understands this.

The future of search will effect everybody’s live in a much more powerful way then the appearance of the Internet or the search engines it brought with it. Most experts in the search industry agree that search as a working system is only 5% solved and that personalization is going to be the key driver to change the way search works today.
Assumptions about how to display search engine results pages to users are undergoing a constant transformation. Searching in the future will include self-learning software so that it would calculate the probability that a given user typing “apple” meant a company and not the fruit. And Google is using IP address identification to target user with country specific results.
But the future of search will influence much more than just the way we use text based computer searches. It will influence our daily live. Already we can see cars that are calling the manufacturer if they analyze a problem within the vehicle. We see Internet service provider partnering with cable companies (or buying them). Few realize that all of these seemingly unrelated events are all steps in the same direction: a world in which every medium will be connected in one way or the other to a network to exchange and store information.
Search your fridge content through the Internet? The refrigerator that knows what content it holds is almost old news. The next logical step is to make this information available to the owner through the Internet. And it is not Sci-Fi but a very realistic scenario that your refrigerator (and soon other household appliances) will send you an email about missing juice or expired mayonnaise. Or maybe you already signed up for the ‘always full’ option at your local grocery store and the supplies you need, will be waiting in a cooler in front of your door.

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I think the webbrowser of tomorrow will be a very personal thing. Like a cell phone today. And it will be stored on several different devices. Cell phones will be like lap tops at that point with, perhaps a holographic screen to use anywhere.

The future sounds cool. Too bad we still don't have flying cars!

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I think things will be become very computerized by then and the web/Internet will be integrated into a lot of the technology we have so much so that we might not have many pieces of technology that are not integrated as such and it's the norm for them to connected to the web.

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