Torrance Miller

What happens when web connectivity is constant, global, and extremely fast?

These are my preliminary suppositions/forecasts on the hypothetical and indeed inevitable future:

• Cell phone companies can run 100% on VOIP technology.  That is, if there is a way to have a phone listen with a minimal-type of connection that conserves battery life as is done with existing terrestrial cell tower infrastructure.
• With that, and below, the need for batteries to be more efficient, smaller, and smarter will greatly increase.
• Local (device-based) storage needs will decrease, manufactures of portable data storage devices will suffer unless they diversify.
• Simple processes/all thinking done on devices could be “outsourced” to central data centers where the resultant values are sent back to the phone.  Since transmission is instant, these super computers will cause mobile devices to be extremely powerful.
• Data center energy usage will increase substantially, energy efficiency will become paramount and alternative energy systems will become increasingly more dominant both due to rising oil costs and the environmentally-conscious nature of the millennials which will run these cloud-computing companies.
• Populations in colder climates will increase, as they are ideal for the physical location for highly-efficient data centers.
• Vehicles will have instant access to rich weather, traffic, and location information.  A new advertising venue will be established that will blow you away.  Your dashboard.
• phone numbers as we conceive them will be extinct.  They will be replaced with usernames and global unique identifiers.
• Direct-democracy will replace both the house of representatives and the congress.
• blocking of incoming traffic to your addresses from unwanted parties will become an important issue.
• You will have one address for communication that you can apply to all of your devices, logins will be 100% biometric and hacking will be more costly than beneficial.

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