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 myoung8 on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @12:52PM (#34814)

I've heard some people propose that it will be 3-dimensional. Apparently some government agencies have created their own Intranets in 3D claiming it makes it easier to find stuff (not sure if I believe this or not...). If it's true, though, then I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the consumer web in the near to medium-term future.

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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 @02:29PM (#35043)

True 3D doesn't make sense for a lot of kinds of data. Images are inherently planar.

My limited hope is that the web can be as peppy as today's desktop interfaces. The elephant in the room of "Web 2.0" is how slow lots of implementations of asynchronous server communication are.

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Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by edu on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @05:11PM (#34869)

Well, it seems that SL is getting a hughe hype right now. I'm a bit skeptical about 3D metaverses, but I'm not really a good oracle ;)

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Re:How do you think the internet will be in 5 to 10 years? by ryantmulligan on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @06:55PM (#34891)

Three-dimensional navigation, for many tasks, involves questionable ergonomics.

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