Michio Kaku: In the Future, We Will Wear the Internet

When will we be able to enter a room and create an imaginary scenario so realistic that it seems as if we are really there?





My feeling of the video:
I think all that he talks about is really more of a thought exercise and not stuff that we'd actually find useful enough to make. But actually,the guess of him is more realistic, which is very possible to happen in the future.

THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET AND HOW TO STOP IT

I would like to introduce a book to you.

About
This book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity--and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation--and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

Details
The writer takes an unusually and refreshingly pragmatic, realistic view of the internet, rejecting old approaches as and when needed. Onthe other hand, you can see from the first two sentences that his prose can be repetitious and dry. You have to work your way through some dense tickets to get to through this forest.

View points of the writer
The writer's central concern is a dialectical contradiction at the heart the Internet:

1. The Internet's success comes from its remarkable ability to repeatedly generate new and unexpected uses.
2. This "generativity" (yuck, what a clumsy word), comes in turn from the deliberate dumbness of the Internet protocols themselves; they were deliberately designed to permit any kind of traffic, for any purpose, to pass between end points of the network.
3. But the more the Internet becomes "prime time", the more it attracts spammers, virus writers and information thieves to prey on the online population, and the Internet's dumbness is free for them to use as well.
4. The more these highway predators threaten our online experience, the more we seek to retreat to the safety of a closed and protected world.
5. A closed and protected world may give us safety, but will spell the end of the Internet as a fount of innovation.

Reference:http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/02/review-the-future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it-by-jonathan-zittrain.html

http://futureoftheinternet.org/

My feeling of this book:
With the development of the Internet, not everything is good. The development of the internet also means to the decline of some other field, such as the paper industry of newspaper, novel,ect. But this does not mean that it is no good for the development of the internet, the internet will be developed and should be developed. To stop the decline of some other industry, I think we should creat new elements in such industry rather than prevent the dexelopment.

the Future of the Internet

While the technical development of the Internet has been an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of several critical shortcomings in terms of performance, reliability, scalability, security and many other categories including societal, economical and business aspects, has led to Future Internet research ehhorts. The time horizon of future Internet studies is typically long term, taking several years before significant debelopments take place.

Globalism

The future of the internet global distribution of information and knowledge at lower and lower cost will continue to lift the world community for generations to come. People will have access to any information they wish, get smarter sooner, and be more aware of the world outside their local environment.

Communities 

The future of the internet communications revolution is ongoing, now uniting communities as it recently united networks. Local communities will organize in virtual space and take increasing advantage of group communication tools such as mailing lists, newsgroups, and websites, and towns and cities will become more organized and empowered at the neighborhood level.

Grids 

The future of the internet gird movement is as inevitable as the spread of the Internet seems now. The connection of thousands of computers on the Internet together to solve problems, oftern called gird computing, will continue to evolve and change many areas of human endevour. Increasingly used for scientific and engineering research, girds can create processing powerhouses far larger than any one organization by itself.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Internet

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_future.htm

Mobile Internet Revolution

From 70s to now, from now to future,let's see how the mobile internet change.

My feeling: there are alot of great statistics in this video. Mobile marketing is really like you implied, a paradigm shift in the way people now and will communicate inthe future. But not enough businesses are shifting in this direction for one reason or another and since it's so affordable and effective.

Mobile phone and the Internet

History
The first mobile phone with internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000, launched in Finland in 1996 . The viability of Internet services access on mobile phones was limited until prices came down from that model and network provides started to develop systems and services conveniently accessible on phones. NTT DoCoMo in Japan launched the first mobile Internet service, i-mode, in 1999 and this is considered the birth of the mobile phone Internet services. In 2001 the mobile phone email system by Research in Motion for their BlackBerry product was launched in America . To make efficient use of the small screen and tiny keypad and one-handed operation typical of mobile phone, a special document and networking model was created for mobile devices, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

Nokia 9000

Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Mobile_phones_and_the_Internet

Introduction of mobile web browser
A mobile browser, also called a microbrowser ,minibrowser, or wireless Internet browser(WIB), is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA.

Firefox

5 star	100,264
4 star	28,759
3 star	15,754
2 star	9,822
1 star	15,902

Average rating

4.1

170,501

It's fast, it's free, it's the first mobile browser to truly support Do Not Track, and the "Awesome Page" start screen that shows you all of your recently visited tabs helps you get right back to what you were doing if you had to put your phone down.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en

Reference: lifehacker.com/5925969/five-best-android-web-browsers


Chrome

5 star	97,058
4 star	28,271
3 star	17,055
2 star	10,147
1 star	15,784

Average rating

4.1

168,315

It search fast ,and you can choose from results that appear as you type.Like Chrome on computer,you can sign in to Chrome to sync your open tabs,bookmarks,and omnibox data from your computer to your phone or tablet.Send pages from Chrome on your computer to Chrome on your phone with one click and read them even you're offline.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome&feature=search_result&hl=en

Reference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome&feature=search_result&hl=en

UC Browser

5 star	44,912
4 star	10,306
3 star	4,015
2 star	1,345
1 star	2,897

Average rating

4.5

63,475

 UC Browser provide you fast and smooth Web surfing experience. Adaptable configuration helps you adjust your way of browsing under different network connections, allowing you to reduce data costs and speed up page loading with compression.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.intl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5VQ01vYmlsZS5pbnRsIl0.

Reference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.UCMobile.intl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5VQ01vYmlsZS5pbnRsIl0.

Web search engine

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.The information may be a specialist in web pages,images,information and over type of files.Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories.

History
The very first tool used for searching on the internet was Archie. The name stands for for 'archive' without the 'v'. It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage ,Bill Heelan and J.Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal.Actually, Archie didi not index the contents of these sites since the amount of data was so limited it could be readily searched manually.
Although the first search engine was not prefect,many new search engine rise by years,such as the rise of Gopher(created in 1991 by Mark McCahill) led to two new search programs, Veronica and Jughead.
Watch the following timeline to be easy to understand.

Timeline (full list)
Year	Engine	Current status
1993	W3Catalog	Inactive
	Aliweb	Inactive
1994	WebCrawler	Active, Aggregator
	Go.com	Active, Yahoo Search
	Lycos	Active
1995	AltaVista	Active, Yahoo Search
	Daum	Active
	Magellan	Inactive
	Excite	Active
	SAPO	Active
	Yahoo!	Active, Launched as a directory
1996	Dogpile	Active, Aggregator
	Inktomi	Acquired by Yahoo!
	HotBot	Active (lycos.com)
	Ask Jeeves	Active (rebranded ask.com)
1997	Northern Light	Inactive
	Yandex	Active
1998	Google	Active
	MSN Search	Active as Bing
1999	AlltheWeb	Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!)
	GenieKnows	Active, rebranded Yellowee.com
	Naver	Active
	Teoma	Active
	Vivisimo	Inactive
2000	Baidu	Active
	Exalead	Inactive
2002	Inktomi	Acquired by Yahoo!
2003	Info.com	Active
2004	Yahoo! Search	Active, Launched own web search (see Yahoo! Directory, 1995)
	A9.com	Inactive
	Sogou	Active
2005	AOL Search	Active
	Ask.com	Active
	GoodSearch	Active
	SearchMe	Inactive
2006	wikiseek	Inactive
	Quaero	Active
	Ask.com	Active
	Live Search	Active as Bing, Launched as rebranded MSN Search
	ChaCha	Active
	Guruji.com	Active
2007	wikiseek	Inactive
	Sproose	Inactive
	Wikia Search	Inactive
	Blackle.com	Active
2008	Powerset	Inactive (redirects to Bing)
	Picollator	Inactive
	Viewzi	Inactive
	Boogami	Inactive
	LeapFish	Inactive
	Forestle	Inactive (redirects to Ecosia)
	VADLO	Active
	DuckDuckGo	Active, Aggregator
2009	Bing	Active, Launched as rebranded Live Search
	Yebol	Active
	Mugurdy	Inactive due to a lack of funding
	Goby	Active
2010	Blekko	Active
	Cuil	Inactive
	Yandex	Active, Launched global (English) search
	Yummly	Active
2011	Interred	Inactive
	Yandex	Active, Launched Turkey search
2012	Volunia	Active

Some of well known search engines

Goole Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc,created on September 15,1997.Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web,receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.

Yahoo!Search is a web search owned by Yahoo!Inc,created on March 1,1995.Originally,none of the actual web crawling and srorage of data was done by Yahoo! itself. In 2001 the searchable index was powered by Google until 2004, when Yahoo!Search became independent.

Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28,2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1.On July 29,2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo!Search.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Search_engines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)

Some of my feelings
Many search engines such as Google and Binf provide customized results based on the user's activity history.As a result,websites tend to show only information which agrees with the user's past viewpoint, effectively isolating the user in a bubble that tends to exclude contrary information.And i had heard something that some search engine will get pay from some websites and advance the websites on the page.Hence,the transparency of such search engines needs to be improved.