What to expect from the internet of the future

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of one of my favorite annual technology conferences –George Gilder’s Telecosm. This year’s event, in San Francisco, was a chance to see old friends, take stock of how far we’ve come, and, most importantly, look to the future and do our part to help build it.

Obviously, in 1996 we were beginning the dot-com boom and the transformation of our telecom networks with a massive fiber optic build out. And although these booms would go bust just a few years later, looking back with a little more perspective we can see that those excesses were the foundation for a wildly successful digital infrastructure and economy.

In 1996, at the first Telecosm, a leading edge Intel or AMD microprocessor had around five million transistors. Today, a Nvidia graphics processor (GPU) has more than eight billion. Nvidia’s graphics chips aren’t used merely in video game consoles anymore, but also in cars, oil drilling, and in massive supercomputers in the cloud.

In 1996, worldwide internet traffic was about one petabyte per month. Today, we transmit around 88 exabytes per month. This means that every 30 seconds, we send the equivalent of a month’s worth of traffic in 1996.

 
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Πηγή: TechPolicyDaily.com