10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

Fri Mar 26 20:12:00 UTC 2021

> On 3/26/21 12:26 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>> If the last decade is anything to go by, I'm keen to see what the next one brings.
>> Mark.
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> So the obvious question is what will happen to the internet 10 years from now. The last 10 years were all about phones and apps, but that's pretty well played out by now. Gratuitously networked devices like my dishwasher will probably be common, but that's hardly exciting. LEO internet providers will be coming online which might make a difference in the corners of the world where it's hard to get access, but will it allow internet access to parachute in behind the Great Firewall?
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> One thing that we are seeing a revolution in is with working from home. That has some implications for networking since symmetric bandwidth, or at least quite a bit more upstream would be helpful as many people found out. Is latency going to drive networking, given gaming? Gamers are not just zitty 15 year olds, they are middle aged or older nowadays.
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> Mike

Ten years from now? Easy. We’ll still be talking about the continued shortage of IPv4 address space and (legitimately) complaining about why IPv6 still isn’t the default addressing/routing methodology for the Internet worldwide.

-Andy