• DocumentCode
    1287678
  • Title

    As we may think-revisited [the future of the Internet]

  • Author

    Kilmer, Richard

  • Author_Institution
    Roku Technol., USA
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    77
  • Abstract
    With the approach of the 21st Century, computer and software technologies have changed the very fabric of our society. Beyond the sheer advances in processor speed, the most dramatic, far-reaching changes have occurred in the way we transfer information. Through the medium of the Internet, information can now be transmitted instantaneously from one end of the planet to the other. The future of information technology is bright, to be sure, but not without its challenges. For the Internet to enable us to achieve all our goals, it must gain a real-time context of who we are, our state and what we are doing. To this end, we must decouple context from the GUI and move it into a system built to hold it: a context engine. This system will let each of us organize our information according to the way we think, by association
  • Keywords
    Internet; technological forecasting; Internet; association; challenges; context engine; future; information technology; information transfer; personal information organization; real-time context; society; Computer crime; Internet; Java; Personal digital assistants; Search engines; Uniform resource locators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4236.815871
  • Filename
    815871