[Imagination Club] Challenge: where is the Internet going?

[Thomas Pitre]

My scenario includes a personal connection to the web via a wearable, 
wireless device integrated into eyeglass frames.  If the person wear 
glasses, the device will project the image onto the back of the lens via 
sub-miniature LCDs.  The frames contain the microphone, video cam, 
speakers, etc.  The user, upon voice command, has an instant, 
voice-command connection with the web, worldwide.

If the user wishes to navigate to his email, he says scan email, and his 
email subject headers are scrolled at the speed he chooses.  Commands 
like scroll, stop, send, cut, paste, etc., are all a function of the 
device.  If the user selects the record function, everything the wearer 
"sees", hears and says is recorded to his personal server or a leased 
server which is part of the subscription package for the device, 
wireless service, data storage, etc. 

Each user has a unique numerical code which climates long and hard to 
spell or type email addresses.  Voice recognition and iris scanning 
insures that the device user, is indeed the subscriber and has rights to 
sending, receiving, recording, etc. 

In the workplace, the user can reference the companies LAN upon 
command.  Working at his desk, or eating lunch in the company cafeteria, 
the user has constant access available to him to record his notes, or to 
remind himself that his e-car should pick him up in front of the 
building at precisely 5:15, and the heater should be set to 22 deg. C. 
His message is transmitted to the wireless node in his car.  When he is 
in his car, the cars web node transmits a signal to his mate's device to 
the effect that the car is on the way home. 

Sitting at the desk, the mate selects user's web cam and sees what the 
user sees through his device.  The mate notes that the user is stopping 
for a quart of soy milk, just as promised.  It is also noted that the 
user spends a little too much time far focusing on the woman bending to 
pick up the magazine that slipped from her grip as she stepped into her 
e-car. 

The user places a voice call to is cleaner to see if his suit is ready 
for tonight's dinner party.  The cleaner requests a switch over to full 
video, so he can point to a line of new ties that he retails for a 
virtual clothing company.  The user pulls over to the curb for a second 
and quickly scans some ties that suit his past purchase clothing profile 
and the occasion, weather, etc.  He orders two from the catalog, and the 
cleaner processes the order as he completes the call.  The e-car scans 
the traffic nearby, and suggests a new route home based on information 
received in real time from the State Department of Transportation video 
traffic links.

Any of this sound far fetched?  It's all within reach today.

Thomas Pitre
Sequim, WA
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Jeffrey Baumgartner wrote:

>Where do you think the Internet will go in the next ten 
>years in terms of new services, technologies, social 
>impact, etc?
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>Remember, stretch your imagination and don't be afraid to 
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Thomas Pitre http://tpitre.nikola.com PO Box 2124 Sequim, WA