I expect that with the ever-growing demanding for speed and fast-access to information, in less than 10 years we will end up in streaming this information on the internet, meaning that we will maintain this information phisically on the copper wires or in waveforms (in case of WiFi), permanentely. We will avoid to save files as writing to disk will be so slower than the internet, we will skip databases as the writing and retrieval of information will be so much slower than keep this information cached somewhere.
This will led us working to maintain alive the networks, adding hardware resources to keep this information alive, as these will be our own records, made up with our blogs, our news, our digital personal profiles, our social security records, and as such our employers and our friends will do the same.
As a proof of concept, see how Facebook is implementing memcache to keep in cache the trillions of information it needs to display when a user request a page. I think it’s enough to predict our future internet…
The future of the Internet
07/03/2010 by zerointeractive
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