Re-engineering the Internet Gene Pool: Chapter Two

Welcome to the weekly Hooked Up Gen Insight from Myers Media Business Network featuring insights about Internet Natives the first generation to grow up with the Internet browser as an embedded part of their lives In addition to insights from experts and research focusing on this unique new generation that39s now entering their adult years you will receive new chapters regularly from Hooked Up A New Generation39s Surprising Take on Sex Politics and Saving the World which won the International Book Award for Youth Issues and was finalist for Women39s Issues and Popular Culture Save each chapter in a folder and at the completion you will have the full book or you can visit Amazoncom Follow our Tweets at hookedupgen and visit our Facebook Page at wwwfacebookcomhookedupjackmyers Click to read chapter one The Internet itself is more than an invention or innovation it is a transformational catalyst that is differentiating the 21st century from all of history before it The advances we are experiencing within our lifetimes border on incomprehensible for many of us But for Internet Pioneers born 19911995 and the first generation to grow up with the Internet they are expected On the nearterm horizon are ubiquitous WiFiamp8230cloud storage with unlimited memoryamp82304G and Ultra5G connectivity with exponentially increased Internet speedamp8230 mobile devices that are elegant extensions of home communications centersamp8230organization of content from millions of sources into personalized and curated resource centerscollaboration communication and even voting through social networksamp8230 handheld remote controls and keyboards replaced by motion and voice detectionamp8230wireless global communications and instant translation that further disrupt traditional boundaries and bring the world together into new social and political systemsamp8230chips literally being embedded in our bodies for control monitoring tracking and communicationsamp8230our brains learning to discern process and communicate digital signalsamp8230our bodies becoming our own personal energy sourcesamp8230medical advances that could extend the lives of many for decades The list of technological advances that are already developed or in development could go on and on Technological advances are a daytoday reality with which Internet Pioneers have grown up and which they have come not only to expect but to rely onquotToday we anticipate continuous technical progress and the social repercussions that follow But the future will be far more surprising than most people realize because few observers have truly internalized the implications that the rate of change itself is acceleratingquot Ray Kurzweil InventorWe39re living in the midst of a transformational period comparable to the development of the Industrial Age in the midtolate 1800s and early 1900s The impact of the Internet is as transformational as that of the wheel sea navigation the printing press the steam engine electricity and the automobileTransformational periods share a common pattern They begin with a single breakthrough invention or technological advanceamp8211amp8211such as electricity and the Internetamp8211amp8211which then leads to a period of massive innovation This period of massive innovation has two stages the first being a stage of jawdropping invention disruption and evaluation and the second stage being a period of application implementation advancement infrastructure development and monetization We saw explosive technological inventions in the first stage of the Internet Transformation between 1993 and 2010 The introduction of the iPad in 2009 marks the beginning of a transition into this second stage application Internetbased quotappsquot are in the early stages of contributing to the arts business education science social rights and families as well as to every other aspect of society you can imagine We have only just begun to scratch the surface of the application of Internetbased technologyAs we move further into the application stage of the Internet Transformation get ready for innovation to shift into high gear Internetbased businesses have been advancing at high speed for the past two decades but the rate of advance can and will accelerate The advances and applications coming soon will far transcend those we have witnessed to dateBecause Internet Pioneers are the first generation to reach college age having grown up with the Internet they are the key influencers and implementers of this shiftAs they gain influence and power over the next two decades Internet Pioneers will become the most important contributors to the Internet gene pool Internet Pioneers will be prepared and experienced to exploit the cloud social networking mobility and superfast connectivity They will innovate at everincreasing speedamp8211amp8211giving the marketplace a heavy and sustained course of steroids Internet Pioneers are the first generation whose full adult lives and careers will exist in a world of cloud networks with unlimited storage Medicine and biological computing will be dramatically impacted as human bodies will be wirelessly connected to networks via chips and implants embedded in their bodies just as pacemakers are already connected through phone lines and WiFi Communications already instant and global will foster new societal structures built not around geographic borders but around cultural religious ethnic political social and educational patterns and preferencesEducation will transcend the classroom as the fundamental concept and context of education is radically restructured to an Internetbased curriculum The typical printed newspaper page will be relegated to museums and libraries within just a few decades Virtual realtime travel will make science fiction timeandspacetravel a cyberreality News information and entertainment dissemination will be progressively more responsive to individual demands for anywhere anytime anyway The automobile is already well on its way to becoming a computer on wheels Soon all cars will have fully embedded Internet and mobile connectivity giving the driver and each individual passenger independent online access and a complete communications information and entertainment centerMost of these advances will become a reality not only in the lifetimes of Internet Pioneers but also within the lifetimes of many of their analog predecessors To preInternet generations the Internet is lifealtering as it sweeps away businesses and business models lifestyles and societal norms Internet Pioneers view these advances as a normal progression consistent with all they have experienced throughout their lives They are prepared and preparing to ride the waveSky Dayton who founded EarthLink at the age of 23 believes quotIt39s not content that39s at the core of new media it39s communications Being connected to a network of friends is the killer appquot Mobile phones and tablets are being used for video conferences school classrooms for downloading and watching satellite television blogging taking and uploading photos storing and listening to music as charge cards and most importantly for social connectivity with defined and discreet groups of friends colleagues and familyamp8230 and with the worldInternetconnected mobile devices are enabling users to access the Internet every waking and even some sleeping moment of their lives The Internet is and will continue to be integral to the functioning of social media and mobility It is at the core of almost every aspect of society we can imagine in the future and mobility is accelerating its role and relevance There are nearly six billion mobile phone subscriptions among the seven billion people currently on earth For nearly four billion of these people their current mobile phones are the first they39ve owned Their phones are changing their lives and collapsing the concept that communication is restricted by time location or economic statusMobile connectedness is not just enabling instant global communicationsquotMobile fragments everything Instead of destination websites with curated content the Internet is overloaded with distinct pieces of individual content that don39t live anywhereamp8211amp8211updates photos comments checkinsamp8211amp8211floating around in cyberspace Mobile enables the creation of far more of these random comments photos etc There is a crazy amount of information and content being created every minute and this content is being aggregated in millions of different waysquot Paul Adams Social Media GuruContent is just particles of communications to be discovered and shared and what you discover and share will help define who you are and what you39re interested in having others share with you Today hundreds of companies are developing programs to help individuals and organizations in recognizing curating storing and sharing the millions of fractional pieces of content that are floating in cyberspaceThousands of venture and equityfunded companies are introducingamp8211amp8211literally every dayamp8211amp8211new tools programs services content offers and opportunities across a spectrum of Internetbased businesses This economic ecosystem is the first ever that is consumerled The autocratic and often monopolistic rule that governments corporations and institutions have had on society and economies throughout history is collapsing The Internet is proving to be far more powerfulInnovation and connectivity are advancing at accelerated rates transforming almost every aspect of relationships society culture business politics and global economics We are building a completely new economic ecosystem on top of the economic system developed over the past 150 years of Industrial Age expansion Futurist David Houle author of The Shift Age believes that civilization will experience as much change in the next decade as was experienced in the thousand years from the year 1000 to the beginning of the new millennium in 2000 Ray Kurzweil author of The Singularity is Near believes quotBecause we39re doubling the rate of progress every decade we39ll see the equivalent of a century of progressamp8211amp8211at today39s rateamp8211amp8211in only 25 calendar yearsquot But Kurzweil also points out that the rate of change is accelerating arguing that we could see the equivalent of the past 100 years of change in the next decadeAlthough the small generation of Internet Pioneers is just beginning to come to terms with its own importance it is the generation that will lead us into this future Because Internet Pioneers are spearheading the transformational period that is redefining the way we live it is vital to understand what drives the members of this generation Their attitudes hopes fears and actions are setting the agenda for the futureNext Week The Internet Native Psyche

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