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jose
29th January 2009, 05:32 PM
Historians will view 2009 as a turning point in Internet history, according to Google internet evangelist Vint Cerf. Speaking to PTC’09 attendees, the legendary figure warned the industry to brace for “significant change” and said Asia was poised to forever change the look and experience of the online landscape.

The region boasts 578.5 million surfers with nearly 85% of its population still to come. That influx is likely to combine with the launch of non-Latin-character addresses to reshape the Web into a very different beast.

http://www.commsday.com/node/309

alpha
29th January 2009, 06:12 PM
.. Will surfers in the year 3000 have the software to open an online PowerPoint presentation from 1997 or will it be resource-draining gibberish? “I'm actually very, very worried about that,” he said.


thats a lot of sleepless nights.