1998
Internet Trends 2008
2018

Most used browser

Your fast access to the web

A good Dutch search engine

The Untoppable search engine

A startup in 1998

There were virtual worlds

Mobile internet

Portals/Pods - predecessors of social netwerks

2008 - 2018

Engines of growth
2004
2006
2001
2003
1998
2000
1995
1997
Moore’s Law Metcalfe’s Law

The web:
...will be 10.000 x more powerful
...is everywhere: macro, micro & virtueal
...gets other (remote) controls
...allows for easier participation
...amplifies human networking

.. will be 10.000 x more powerful

audio/video: faster & more
Normal quality
HD-quality

You save data on your computer,
or the web ( “in the cloud”)

The semantic web:
When computers understand language on
a page - and can use it

The Grid: 10.000 x faster than broadband
http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/

....is everywhere: macro,
micro & “virtueal”

Macro : MRI-scans from Europe
are analysed by a radiologist
in India
http://www.nrmedical.biz/teleradiology

Macro : He has an office in the US.
His secretary is in....Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901158.html

Micro : internet becomes more
personal, more targeted

Micro: and more personal

Marcro/micro: do we want to get this close ?

“Virtueal”: Virtual worlds

Virtueal : the Real World on the Web

Virtueal: the Web on (top of)
the Real World

http://www.tonchidot.com/

The web....... gets other
(remote) controls

Voice recognition
(perhaps in 2020?)
It used to work for him

Touch : control your computer
with your hands

The Web allows for easier
participation

Open Source-software:
no costs, good quality

enabling you to make a $100,- laptop
(www.olpc.com)

Easier participation : free tools to
publicise, discuss, find, buy..

Easier participation:
Everyone can program a computer

...or combine data (with Google Maps, e.g.)

“Every desktop is now
a printing press, a broadcasting station,
a community or a marketplace”
- Howard Rheingold

The Web amplifies human networking

http://h10068.www1.hp.com/blogpost/ripples_1.gif

Social networks

even in a business environment

Network-effect: viral spread

Network-effect:
distance cooperation

Communicating traffic jams via your TomTom

Giving a loan togehter to
these Paraguyan entrepreneurs

Innovate together: individuals help
companies solve their problems

Group buying

Group buying in China
(and work up a crowd)

..or get a discount together

The web:
...will be 10.000 x more powerful
...is everywhere: macro, micro & virtueal
...gets another (remote) control
...allows for easier participation
...amplifies human networking

Thank you for your attention
mr Ewout Wolff mba,
ewout@onedaycompany.nl
www.onedaycompany.nl

Sources :
http://h10068.www1.hp.com/ www.scienceparameter.com/
blogpost/ripples_1.gif