I most agree with Metcalfe's Law. It basically says a network is worth the communication between the network users. It explains how many people can connect to how many other people. For example, if you have 9 people on a network including yourself, you use the Metcalfe formula (network users minus one) 9 - 1, and you get 8. 8 is the amount of different connections you can make with other users on the network. Metcalfe's Law is pretty much saying the higher the number from the equation, the more valuable the network is. The law isn't fool-proof, because people may not find the communication connections as valuable as others and everyone's connection may not be equal. If your connection sucks, the network will have little value to you, even if your friend on the same network has a great connection and sees the network as important. What I don't understand is why it doesn't account for multiple connections, like if you connect to two people at the same time, wouldn't that account for another connection? Three people at a time? Four? Or have everyone connected and communicating at the same time.
I've seen these wristband projectors for cell phones, where you flick your wrist and your phone screen appears on your arm. You're able to access the internet and do everything on your own skin with your cell phone feet away. In 5 years, I see everything shifting towards this notion. Yes, you need to pay for the service, like having a cell phone and having an internet connection, but information is probably going to be even easier to access. Like with the wristbands, you may not even need to be near a computer, phone, or other electronic to access the internet. It may take more than 5 years, but the development will surely head towards a lazier future for internet consumers.
In your second paragraph you mention that everything is becoming projected off the body, but wouldn't you think that if we have this kind of technology now that we would be able to create something bigger in the future? Computers will eventually become obsolete as technology will be integrated into our very beings in some shape or form. There is probably great stress right now to keep it separate from our body because of people wanting to have full control, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will integrate with technology at some stage because it will make life incredibly easy for the most part. Maintaining such a system would take a long time, but perhaps in five years we will begin to tread in the direction of something like that.
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