INTERNET IN MY LIFE
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In 5 years…
In 10 years…
The role of internet in our life
What Is The Importance Of Internet In Our Life?
The Role Of Internet In Modern Life
In the past 15 years, widespread internet access has transformed nearly every aspect of how Americans live.
In that time span, Facebook has changed the way we connect with one another, Uber has made it easier for us to get from place to place, and YouTube has brought a seemingly infinite number of entertainment possibilities to our fingertips.
But what about the next 15 years? How will the internet change from what it is today? And more importantly, how will new advancements make our world a fundamentally different place than it was before?
The Onward, Internet project, developed by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, is asking people to submit their ideas for what they'd like to see next on the internet. Some of these suggestions are a little fantastical ("more unicorns"!), while others are more practical ("protect my bank codes better").
We did our own research on what experts predict the internet will look like 5, 10, and 15 years from now.
In general, we can expect the internet to continue expanding to places it has never been accessible before: far-off, rural locations around the world, inside our household appliances, maybe even on Mars.
Here's what we learned:
In 5 years ...
Five years from now, everyone in the world will be able to use the internet, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted in 2013.
Here in the US, 87% of the adult population is already online, up from 66% in 2005.
In the coming years, nonprofit organizations and internet service providers will work to sign up the remaining 13% of Americans through programs like Connect2Compete, a partnership between the nonprofit EveryoneOn and several major cable companies that allows low-income families to purchase broadband service at a reduced rate.
And while we think of the internet today as something we access from computing devices like laptops and smartphones, in five years, billions of household items from washing machines to door locks will have internet connectivity.
For instance, your refrigerator might have sensors on it that can figure out when you're running low on milk, and that can then use the internet to send an alert to your smartphone. Pretty cool, right?
The technology research firm Gartner expects the so-called "Internet of Things" to grow from the fewer than 1 billion connected objects that existed in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2020.
Meanwhile, the investment bank Morgan Stanley estimates that number wind up being as high as 75 billion.
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