What do you think the world wide web will be like 20 years from now?

Web 3.0

Really REALLY wide!

Virtual porn. We all know that’s where the internet is heading.

More Flash animation.

I expect a lot of marketing terms in this thread :) Web3.0, or when they find a better term for that, will probably be more focused on where the web is accessed and how before the content is displayed. As for cloud computing and stuff like that I guess that is a little bit more short term than 20 years. Although I must say, seeing the changes to HTML5 taking ages and not necessarily a step forward, it might take that long.

To be honest, if I could predict how the web will look in 20 years, it would not be interesting to begin with.

Ah ha! I found out exactly what it will be like.

It’ll have a long white beard and will drive with its directional always flashing.

I think as more people start making websites and they become easier to made and maintain there will be an overload of pure crap on the web. Google will have to become much better to sort though it and sites like these will be crucial to finding answers to popular questions, because there will be so many personal websites, advertisements, random shit all over the place.

I remember hearing in a TED Talk a awhile ago the the Internet will just be a barley usable toy in the next 5000 days (its been 5000 days since it was created, in the filming of the video).

It is a very good video (as are all TED talks) and should be watched. Here is the Video

everone will be using it!
EVERYONE!

It will be so integrated into everything that you will not even notice it.

Wifi blenders and dildos with high speed access.

@ChazMaz up load different “styles” of famous porn stars? the likes of Ron Jeremy should be a fast seller.

It will have made the telephone obsolete. Computers will fit on your wrist and you will call and see the person you’re talking to. Special glasses will enable portable wide screen viewing in 3D. Business travel will be a thing of the past. Voice technology will be perfected also so that the keyboard and mouse will be obsolete as well.

Free porn…

no more paying for it

Everything significant to humanity will be connected to the Internet. Cars, residential buildings and their objects (fridge, microwave oven, etc.), commercial buildings and their objects (printers, telephones, etc.), people (by some sort of identification that they will carry around)... All of these things will communicate with each other to make human society more efficient.

Imagine something similar to this.

@Quagmire I think the keyboard and mouse will stay. you have to think of the gamers, they influence a lot of computer tech.

Everyone will have a home phone, tv, pc/laptop, and gaming system combined as one!

@erichw1504 I think they already have one.

@ABoyNamedBoobs03, Good point. But I think the Wii concept (i.e., where we, essentially just move our arms around in front of a screen) is here to stay and get better and better and replace the way we currently do a LOT of things.

More quirks and problems. Maybe they will all get together and we’ll have only one choice to make. Maybe it will take over the world and build robots to destroy humankind! The possibilities are endless!

It is all over in 2012 anyway.

The internet will become so clogged with users, and bandwidth too narrow that the whole shebang will collapse under its own weight.

Maybe the more relevant question is: Will there still be an internet out there in 20 years? Will it be an improvement of what we have got now? I’m referring to issues like net neutrality and what @zendo said.

if they can develop the idea of a glove like controller, one you wear on your hand instead of holding something, reacting to your finger movements, I would think that would at least have a good shot at knocking off the key key board and mouse, which, that tech is already being developed, but was far as where Wii remote is conceptually at the moment, I don’t think it would catch on with most computer gamers. you under estimate just how lazy they really are sometimes lol.

Widespread brain–computer interfaces connecting your brain the all the other brains on the web. Personal firewalls will become even more important. Suppose @AstroChuck is trying to hack into @ChazMaz‘s brain? Now we don’t want that to happen, do we?

Some less fortunate people will also enjoy neuroprosthetics.