The Future Online Experience
Do you ever wonder how the online experience will change over the years? Well, to look forward, perhaps we should look backward. Do you remember how you spent your time online just over a decade ago? You probably started by firing up your modem, and going to your AOL account. If you ventured away from AOL, you would use Internet Explorer (maybe Netscape) to explore a few sites. Remember, you were paying by the hour, so you didn’t stay online very long, and you were tying up a phone line. Also, it took forever for pages to load, so it wasn’t very easy to move around.
Americans with internet access were spending less than 30 minutes a month online just 13 years ago. Today, it is estimated that people spend over 27 hours a month online. There was no Google, and YouTube was still years away. The Web was completely different back then, and to predict what the future will look like is difficult. The safe guess is that we will be spending more time online, but how will the experience change?
It will continue to grow. You can now do everything online, from taxes, to every type of inquiry, shopping; which was not heard of 13 years ago – to watching movies, listening to itunes and pretty much everything you can imagine, of course except playing physical sports. But with the technology advancing in the blink of an eye, cell phones will age. Imagine creating everything digital as we are headed in that direction. Online web access to view who you are talking too. Everything predictable can now be used. Phone companies are getting smarter with touch screens. The IPhone a huge success. Overall, I can only imagine the number of hours used by Americans. It will probably be way over 100 hours. We are utilizing it for work which should be added statistically. That overall is at least a good 6 hours a day. Let’s really do the math!
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