Siegfried Reich

The Future Internet

November 16th, 2008

This afternoon, we had a discussion initiated by the Salzburg Global Seminar/Institute for Strategic Dialogue on the future of the Internet.

One of the issues is to define the scope of “future”, i.e., are we talking 10 years, 20 years, etc.? IMHO I believe that for applied research already 5 years is a pretty long period.

Anyway, there is a nice publication (in German only) by the Feldafinger-Kreis: “Trends, Technologies and Applications”. They argue for the following trends

1. Peer-to-Peer Networking
2. Embedded Software-intensive Systems
3. Security and Safety / Privacy / Self-Defending
4. Semantic Technologies
5. Knowledge Management
6. Intelligent Software-Agents
7. Service Grids in the Internet of Services
8. Intelligent Resource Management
9. Self-Managed Systems
10. e-Processes
11. Internet of Things
12. Mobility / Networked Vehicles
13. Ambient Assisted Living
14. Human-Computer Interaction

As far as our own work is concerned, I think that the following items are of particular interest to our research

• the Internet of things (we were talking about all-Ip building infrastructure)
• ambient assistance
• realtime geography/mobile systems
• semantic technologies

Also, in March 2008 the European Commission hosted an event in Slovenia on the Future Internet, see the following URL http://www.fi-bled.eu/ and a short video:

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