Future of the WWW

The World Wide Web was one of the most successful technological inventions of our time… why? The answer is simple… and it’s in the name. World-wide-web. It is a huge network, accessible by anyone and everyone. Web pages can be created by pretty much anyone, and make it accessible to the masses. Entrepreneurs soon saw the business possibilities of this new invention and now we have hundreds of auction sites, online stores and other commercial websites, such as Ebay or Amazon, where anybody who has a credit card or debit card of some sort, can buy anything online, choosing from a variety not necessarily available to them where they may live.

Unfortunately this presents a problem – privacy laws which did not previously exist have had to come into place to prevent people’s information on the Internet to be misused.

The World Wide Web is ever-growing, and as it grows, so does the variety of ways it can be accessed. Technology items such as mobile phones now also provide access to the internet, increasing its accessibility even more, a trend that is set to continue as it becomes possible to access the internet on even more non-PC devices. In the future, the web will become a huge part of our lives, the walls of rooms turned into huge displays and internet access available from a variety of different items of technology.

i think that the huge popularity of the WWW means that it is going to be more prominent in our lives, to be used in everything from business to education. its accessibility and how easy it is to use means that people of all ages can utlise it, but for the same reasons it can be quite dangerous, particularly for young children or for those who put personal details onlines. it can also be hard to trace interent criminals, meaning that fraud can often go unnoticed or unpunished.