How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years?

Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by PindaxDotCom on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @11:37AM (#34782)

1. Increased bandwidth ... enough bandwidth to make it no longer a factor

2. Increased wi-fi coverage ... a free planet-wide wi-fi service?

3. Better mobile hardware ... a mobile device that is smaller than a laptop, larger than an iphone, and more useful than either.

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Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by ivankirigin on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @02:27PM (#35042)

"enough bandwidth to make it no longer a factor"

You need to do an order-of-magnitude idea check. Wireless video broadcast is extremely intensive, and radio technology is expanding at a sub-linear rate.

There is a problem with Moore's law vs. 2D images: making more transistors on an imager will only be half as effective as the extra cpu power needed to crunch it. A doubling of density turns a 320x240 into 640x480. This means twice the computation for four times the image size.

The point is that bandwidth will always matter. Video is the kind of application that will make it matter.

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Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by euccastro on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @12:21PM (#34796)

I think a 12" laptop is small enough. Smaller than that and you can't type comfortably.

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Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by myoung8 on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @12:50PM (#34813)

I think BlackBerry users would beg to differ. I've seen some people typing pretty darn fast on those things, and I wouldn't have thought it possible. It's all about habituation.

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