1. Internet in 2020
A personal view
Jean Rohmer
jean.rohmer@devinci.fr
http://plexus-logos-calx.blogspot.com/
Institut Fredrik Rosing Bull
Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci
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2. Assumptions
• Reason as if memory, speed,
bandwidth, energy, QoS were
infinite and free
• Hardware performance
improvement is neutral in the
centralized vs distributed debate
• Sensemaking technologies
progress is very slow (Natural
Language understanding, Image
understanding, Automatic
Reasoning …)
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3. Assumption
• Software Engineering as a whole is a
« meringue lemon pie »: it will never
change qualitatively
Idem for the « hyperparallel » Von
Neuman Architecture
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4. CLAIM
• Natural Language is the Ultimate
Open Source Standard.
• Natural language exists for « more
than » 100000 years
• Natural Language will exist in 2120
• Which Computer Format (like XML)
will exist in 2120 ?
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5. CLAIMS
• Natural Language is the sole sustainable
information representation and exchange
standard (including among artefacts)
• Everybody should grow a « Personet »
which mirrors the brain as an
« Intelligence Amplifier , Semantic
Guardian Angel» and connects/shields it
with/from the global Net
• Increase of the global WW Intelligence /
Knowledge will come from an « Alterity »
(or « ALTER IT! ») attitude: everybody is Semantic Guardian Angel
responsible of what is fed –in natural
language- in the network
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6. Conjectures for 2020
• Intel (or Google or …) assembles directly an
unique evergrowing computer in its factories:
each wafer is positioned and connected as soon
as produced:
• « Make it Cheap: Don’t Ship Chips! »
• Large corporations decide to replace
documents, dabases, mails, applications by a
« sentences manager » with appropriate
navigation and computation tools. We call it
« Litteratus Calculus »
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