We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we are going to live on the internet!

Most of my generation perceive the internet as a place to visit when we want to check our emails or socialize with friends. But what about the next generation ?

The Internet is now fully airborne and just like we open our mouths to breath air we open our browsers and intake the web. It's our environment; it's our workplace, our art and our 2nd home.

The truth is the interface between us, machines and others are becoming more and more seamless each day; with gadgets becoming smaller, more inexpensive and more integrated into our lives by the day.

Men are tool builders and just like Steve jobs said many years ago "the computer does for a man what a bike does for our species when comparing our speed of travel to let's say a leopard".

In response I'd refer to a part of the bible called the Tower of Babel.

"God came to see their city and the tower they were building. He perceived their intentions, and in his infinite wisdom, He knew this "stairway to heaven" would only lead the people away from God. He noted the powerful force within their unity of purpose. As a result, God confused their language, causing them to speak different languages so they would not understand each other. By doing this, God thwarted their plans. He also scattered the people of the city all over the face of the earth"

The Internet breaks down these barriers of language and geographical separation and in the cloud we are effectively constructing a pathway to a new echelon of survival.

Crowd sourcing is whereby you have a smarter result thanks to the masses than say taking an answer from an individual. Even at an office Christmas Party calculating the number of sweets in a jar is usually exactly correct when taking the average from everyone's guess. Here in lies the internets' reliably and source of wisdom as the Internet is comprised of such averages.

In the film The Social Network, Sean Parker ( founder of Napster, played by Justin Timberlake) says "We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!"

This is great philosophy for two reasons. Firstly as above where were all effectively coming more together than ever before. But secondly it makes me realize ( having moved from a farm, to a city, to the Internet) that this is part of our historical evolution as mankind.

If you've ever seen the Bruce Willis film Surrogate or Keanu Reeves in the film The Matrix and especially the new Tron you'll have the best glimpse of our future. This is because the Internet is more than anything a universal language communications device that connects us all to a physically ( if not yet psychologically) safe virtual environment.

In such an environment we continue to effectively harvest the resources at our disposal which is not earth and water but our imagination.

We now return to our most basic of needs of food, drink, sleep and warmth while the remainder of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is replaced with a quick surf the net to 'get our fill'. City's now only need to attend to our needs for accommodation as we drift off and live in the cloud. Leaving me with the burning question; If the above is true then the real question is what we'll all be doing when the internet facilitates our basic need?

Well my answer is that when we are all more accustom to having the worlds greatest minds in any language a chat session away or we adapt to having the skills to achieve anything only a YouTube walk-through away, we might just end up building our stairway to our outermost or inward most unexplored areas of our understandings. It is my hope that we discover the better understand the science of 4th dimension and perhaps verify belief that our universe is but a grain of molecular matter at the most microscopic of levels putting us in a never-ending loop of exploration.

I'm certain of one thing nevertheless. It's all about the journey.

Hywel Ap Buckler
Founder
Trusted Office / Wave Telecoms