[steveb]

Victor is my biggest fan, by the way.

[RaelRode]

The web, I hope, will get beter with time. We would all ditch the "Web 2.0" crap thats going around now and actually focus on decent websites. What will eventually happen is probably that all the start-up websites will close within a few months simply because the muchg larger big fish have all the users, and people dont like to move form site to site.

Also I hope to god that internet connectioins get faster.

[asterix]

Web designers will in fact become more relevant as happened with the advent of desktop publishing and graphic design where anyone could create thier own flyers and brochures using pagemaker and msoffice. Alot of people in the industry where afraid that this would be 'end' to graphic design. However all it did was increase the need for those services because it became 'standard practise' and at the end of the day a designer still produces a far superior product!

Now with web/internet or any media the skill is really how to 'communicate' in the most effective manner. And in a world with so much information to collate and distribute - this is where you skillset should be focused on. Content management systems will be the key focus on future web technologies.

Advertising as we know it will also change forever as companies find that they need to integrate into the world of 2.0. Already companies are investing heavily in creating content for you-tube because they know those community spaces can make you an overnight success, and give you more exposure than $millions in tv advertising. Magazines, printed brochures and newspapers will be phased out - especially with climate change becoming a key economic factor in every industrialised nation. And why would you spend all that money on print when everything can be accessed and distributed electronically at 10,000% less or more in cost?

[Zaoris]

Originally Posted by asterix

Web designers will in fact become more relevant as happened with the advent of desktop publishing and graphic design where anyone could create thier own flyers and brochures using pagemaker and msoffice. Alot of people in the industry where afraid that this would be 'end' to graphic design. However all it did was increase the need for those services because it became 'standard practise' and at the end of the day a designer still produces a far superior product!

Now with web/internet or any media the skill is really how to 'communicate' in the most effective manner. And in a world with so much information to collate and distribute - this is where you skillset should be focused on. Content management systems will be the key focus on future web technologies.

Advertising as we know it will also change forever as companies find that they need to integrate into the world of 2.0. Already companies are investing heavily in creating content for you-tube because they know those community spaces can make you an overnight success, and give you more exposure than $millions in tv advertising. Magazines, printed brochures and newspapers will be phased out - especially with climate change becoming a key economic factor in every industrialised nation. And why would you spend all that money on print when everything can be accessed and distributed electronically at 10,000% less or more in cost?

Quite true on the advertising part, that means some 'now-big-companies' may die and we shall get only the good stuff..maybe just for a while.
Probably, in the future of the next future, there'll be a fresh restart and so on.

[Snowshiro]

Originally Posted by simonruk1

So do you see a future where your computer/ the internet and TV all come through the same device.

With the move over to digital by 2012 do you see the interaction of TV and web becoming one in the same.

At present it is not possible to receive HD at the size and speed we require. A major overhaul of the BT exchange would be needed. At a great cost to the consumer

Or do you think the providers should move straight over to it all streaming down to us via satellite or cable?

I think to some extent you have to look outside the confines of the UK to see where things are going. Here in Japan, a large number of ISPs and other companies already provide IPTV services. But the difference is, the average home in Japan these days can get a 100 Megabit connection, and in selected areas, 1 Gigabit is now available. As the speeds available in the UK increase (at an affordable rate) things will go the same way.

Personally I bittorrent most of the shows from the UK that I want to watch (a standard half hour episode of a British TV show takes less than a minute to download providing there are enough seeders). Then I run it through Universal MediaHub, and stream it via Connect 360 from my Mac Pro to my Xbox 360. The quality is pretty much indistinguishable from what I get from my cable company.

Generally I tend to download an entire season of something because it still requires a certain amount of human intervention to download/re-encode/stream, but at some point all of this will be automated and only involve a single box.

I have a friend who owns a sports bar in my local city centre. He shows pretty much every major sporting event from around the world and simply has 2 internet connections through which everything is received and displayed on the various big screen TVs around the bar. The bar has no traditional television feeds (arial, dish, cable).

[rsalazar]

I think it will turn into a global tv station. Every body broadcasting live from their ______ (tool) Prepare your show.

[combat sheep]

wherever it goes, we shall all follow

[funkyprem]

to follow, there must be a leader...

[d*d]

I don't think the web will start to resemble tv, i think tv will start to resemble the web. Fibreoptic cabling will allow major advances in landline speeds, the speed through the air (wi-fi, mobile etc) is finite so they will become the poor relation and we'll all be back to plugged in wires

[Shiro]

So do you see a future where your computer/ the internet and TV all come through the same device.

I'm already living in that future - Im using my computer on my 40" sony Bravia tv right now, and my wife is sitting next to me watching tv in the bottom right corner of the screen. Our TV has a LAN input, and I can watch videos either off my harddrive through my tv menu, or through one of the players on my computer using my tv as the monitor. We also get real time weather updates and various other news direct to our tv through the LAN cable.

[amitavroy]

well i think web 2.0 is more about technology and less focused on art. and we need to make a new line which will have the techical part of web 2.0 and the artistic design also
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[stupid dog]

holographic 3d porn right on my laptop. Now, that's the web I'm waiting for!!!