That was a headline that caught my eye today.
According to the article, “Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users.”
There is something strange and science fiction-like about all that, which goes on to declare there are 875 million internet users out there, a number that could double, however machines could make up tens of billions in the future. They would be tied into an all pervasive network where there would be no need to power up a computer to connect — “anytime, anywhere, by anyone and anything”, the article says.
“Even particles and ‘dust’ might be tagged and networked”, the ITU said.
“In this way the virtual world would map the real world, given that everything in our physical environment would have its own identity (a passport of sorts) in virtual cyberpsace,” the report forecast.
As the artcle states, science fiction will become science fact.
Sometimes it does, doesn’t it?
