The Next Generation Internet: When The Internet Will Really Have Arrived (work in progress)
by Paramendra Bhagat
2000.

Outline

• Introduction

  The Internet is the new country and this is to be the Internet century. This new medium makes geography irrelevant in networking people globally in ways that could not have been imagined before and elevating commerce to a whole new paradigm. The real potential of this medium will finally be unleashed after the line between the Internet and the Television finally melts away, very much in the offing. In some ways, the most important impact of the emergence of this new medium as the backbone of our lives might not be on the computer screen at all but in the way we get to interact each other offline, but that is not the topic of this article.

  The population of the netizens:

  The number of webpages:

  The volume of e-commerce:

  The ad industry:

• Faster Computers
  (a) Faster computers, cheaper personal computers
• Faster Communication Paths
  (a) Fiber optics technology
  (b) Wavelength Division Multiplexing, or WDM
  (c) Cross-country and cross-ocean
  (d) The pace of change faster than that for computers
  (e) Faster routers
  (f) Faster local area networks
• Quality of Service
  (a) Reliability
  (b) Security
  (c) Complex billing
  (d) Delay in transfer due to increase in traffic can not be tolerated for telephone calls, television, music, medical services, financial transactions
• Constant Emphasis on Research and Development
  (a) A role for the government (s); the private sector no substitute
  (b) Faster Internet
  (c) An Internet with new features
  (d) In other words, the Next Generation Internet (NGI)
• Uses of the Internet
  (a) E-mail
  (b) World Wide Web
  (c) Telephone
  (d) Television and Video
  (e) Multiplayer Games
  (f) Command and control (military)
  (g) Cost-effective Research Infrastructures
  (h) New applications far more sweeping than the World Wide Web
  (i) Connecting homes and small businesses to the NGI, high speed and low cost
  (j) The stubborn problem of the digital divide, in the United States and across the world
  (k) Broadband, Cable Modems, Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL)
• Conclusion

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