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When I think about what will happen 10 years from now, I have to look back 10 years ago what did happened 10 years ago. One of the big impacts that happened was the internet. The World Wide Web was original started in 1993, but it started to get its popularity a few years after. I actually started to play the internet around 1997 and created my first email account in hotmail.com. I never thought that the Internet will actually change the way for the communication to this level. The world seems connected as easy as a mouse click.
The internet has become another way of life-style for many people. It made life a lot easier and comfortable. People have another choice to be able to do so many tasks without going outside, but just to sit in front of computer and typing and mouse-clicking. People don’t have to go out shopping. Instead, they can just order stuffs online and let the parcel services such as UPS, FedEx, or USPS deliver to you. There are so many things else that we can do through the Online Internet such as online gaming, online gambling, online searching, online communication, online job, online school, and so on. They have changed many people way of living, so in the next ten years, I believe that it will continue to change to the next level.
Something else that we can’t forget about predicting the future is global warming. Global Warming is the big issue. It will change the way we consume natural resource. Of course, I believe that we will eventually switch from oil consuming to some other natural resource such as solar power, wind power, heat power and such. Those sources of energy will be easy to find and consume in a lower price which I believe it will cause to the better economic status around the world. We may be more electric cars since it’s safer and very cheap. It may cause people to buy cars a lot easier. Plus, the consumers don’t have to worry about destroying environment from oil burning fossil fuel. If more electric cars were made, people might go out and trying to buy more cars for themselves since it’s cheap. The car price might be dropped down like a pc price. Who knows that we may see 5-6 cars per one owner, just like we have many alt characters in World of Warcraft.
Another thing that could happen is that online internet and new technologies may emerge the virtual world and reality together. That was just my assumption. We have witness many online activities over the past ten years not just order online stuffs or do some certain tasks like searching or googling, but we all want to create some avatars or a profile of yourself on the internet as we can see in myspace, facebook, or hi5. Almost everyone who is not even a gamer may have one. I feel that those profile creator site would go to the next level. For example, we might be able to create some playable myspace profile, so you can interact with other people with some visual activities that we can all share and play together with other myspace player. This might not sound like a new thing for MMORPG gamers. It would be good if I can see myspace working like the game. The good thing about it is that, you can distinguish whether they are spam or not. The problem that I hate for these online profile sites is that many unknown spams or commercial messages are often shown in your profile. With this “game-like” myspace profile avatar idea, you will be able to distinguish who are spams who are not. For some reason, I feel like it is easy to track down a commercial or spam inside World of Warcraft because most spam character is level one with random unreadable letters. Anyhow, this idea would make it easy if you want to get to know other people. Just like in World of Warcraft, people in the guild don’t even see the actual face, but they can actually build a strong tie between guild members. It is a lot easy to send the feeling toward each other people though actions rather than you see the comment on the profile like “You are cute” or “You are awesome” like we usually see in profile site. Some people don’t even care about those, but if myspace or maybe other dating site shapes their idea to a playable profile like gaming, I think it will take the internet users to the next level big time because it will be more engaging into the site program.
To cover some other questions about how the government, the country, the law will change in the next ten years, I think they will change. Because we have more people using online and more problems were caused through online activities, I feel that there will be a law or some restriction that can prevent us from taking advantage of other people through the internet. There will be a big shift for the new generation. Everything will be more visual than text because many people in the new generation are drawn to visual presentation of media such as TV, Games and pictures rather than text. I am the visual leaner, so it’s easy to learn from watching media rather than reading the book. If we all have more visual learners then we may need more people doing graphic related jobs. I just feel that more programmers and graphic artists will be needed to help create some new presentation of information such as the dictionary with computer animated scene explaining in every single word. That would be awesome.