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Chaos to rule Internet in 2010
By: Michael Crawford
Computerworld Today (Australia)

Chaos will rule the Internet in 2010 as spam, viruses and fraudulent e-mails continue to cause havoc, according to Professor Trevor Barr, user environments program manager at Australia's Swinburne University of Technology.

Delivering the Smart Internet 2010 report, a 50,000 word prediction on what the Internet will be in five years' time, Barr, who is also the leader of the research team that conducted and compiled the report, Smart Internet Technology CRC, outlined the four distinct issues that various schools of thought consider the Internet faces in the near future.

Speaking at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney yesterday, he said the four traits affecting the Internet are an Adaptive User Environment, the so-called Smart Internet, Rich Media and Chaos Rules.

Professor Barr said the team intended the report will provide insight as to how experts see the near-term future of the Internet. The team interviewed some 35 global IT experts for opinion, as well as consulting 28 secondary sources.

"Once we had all the data we mapped it out and where those experts had shared views we formed 'schools of thought' and actually constructed four different schools of thought," Barr said.

"In terms of the Adaptive User Environment, we feel there's been no killer application to come from suppliers or carriers over the last decade, and whatever changes have happened have come from surprises - Google is a surprise, so is text messaging and e-mail. This shows that users are now driving technological change and within that we now have the notion of User-Centric Design (UCD). In five years successful products will actually come from this process called user-centric design.

[url=\"http://www.itworldcanada.com\"]source: IT World Canada[/url]

Hmmm... So would you think that online companies would move to a building location? If the internet would be a hassle with spam, virus', etc then it would be really hard to run an online business correct? :\

This sounds like scare mongering to me. Viruses have been around since the birth of computing, and they will be forever. I dont know about Chaos. i got the impression from the above that the internet as we know it is going to blow up or something like that! There will allways be some who spoil things for others, its the same in most things people do. Its human nature.

i think it would be intersting to read the full report instead of something like this that dosent really go into detail.

Sound like the Millenium bug to me! We all know what happaned with that. I didnt even get a sniffle, let alone the flu or a cold!

Yay! We're going to rule the world!

Stupid noobs will always exploit bugs and code viruses. Supposedly SUN computers are "immune" to viruses, but that could be because NOBODY EVER USES THEM.

The Internet's protocols haven't changed in a long time. If you stop thinking about viruses and start thinking about protocols then the current ones are, in Internet standards, ancient. For example, the HTML and the FTP protocols have been around since the birth of the public Internet. imo, the FTP protocol needs a slight bit of change; it is annoying trying to download 1756 files, ONE AT A TIME!