Probable Near-Term Developments
- Number of people connected to the Internet continues to increase.
- Number of devices connected to the Internet continues to increase.
- Increasing communication directly between Internet-connected devices, without human intervention.
- Reasonably accurate automatic spoken language translation.
- Bionic contact lenses that display information (textual and graphical) transmitted from external sources.
- Increased use of stronger cryptography to protect the privacy of electronic messages.
- Increased speed of data transmission.