The Future of the Internet Is Flow

Lifestream unified our digital life: Each new document, email, bookmark or video became a bead threaded onto a single wire in the Cloud, in order of arrival...Whenever you add a bead to the lifestream, you specify who may see it... Your future home page is a bouquet of your favorite streams ... News streams blended with shopping streams, blogs, your friends’ streams, each running at its own speed... To keep from being overwhelmed, you adjust each stream’s flow rate when you add it to your collection. The system slows a stream down by replacing many entries with one that lists short summaries ... The cybersphere of the future will resemble an electric power network, with information thundering through at tremendous volume and speed. Computers will become “step-down transformers” to convert high-voltage information from the Internet into a useful, lower-voltage form. Flowing information will power your life. - The Future of the Internet Is Flow - WSJ