Sites of the future: Lucia

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As long as the Internet continues to be a clogged highway where information policy plays an important role, I think the web sites will remain, although their format will tend to be more interactive and adaptive to users’ needs and type. However my opinion is that, for the long range future, say within 50 years, the website will be obsolete. I imagine that each household will have a central computer, voice activated, with access to a unique, huge network. Information will be extracted from the network, by request, and printed out or incorporated in user’s work on his/hers own terminal. Since only the information matters and the access to it, and given the voice interaction with the mainframe, no visual format is needed. The access will probably continue to be paid, as a utility tax, but the service will be of a much higher quality: information could be sorted, dated, presented in alternative formats as the user needs it. While “talking” to the central computer, the user would be carrying out various tasks and errands, so there is no need and/or time to actually look at the screen.


--Lucia 12:15, 2 Dec 2004 (MST)