Predictions for the future of the internet

[onlypuppy7]

1. Microsoft, Google, Meta etc will effectively merge. Eventually the whole supply chain of the internet comes under control by these private entities.

2. Personal websites will have increased barrier to entry/regulation, to the point that managing one becomes too expensive and/or daunting for most people who otherwise would. More centralised platforms will appear to manage most small business' needs. The platforms will be owned by the big tech companies of the time. This has already occured for the most part, where social media fulfills most individual needs.

3. The current Internet will be replaced by a "New Internet" by a major country such as the United States. The New Internet retains compatiblility with the Old Internet. All new hardware becomes compatible with the New Internet. Over the course of 20 years or so, all infrastructure for the Old Internet is dismantled and replaced, ensuring the Old Internet can no longer be accessed. Changes in the New Internet could include the replacement of websites entirely with "Apps", the abolition of Tor functionality/alternative networks, additional metadata in conjunction to IP that services such as VPNs cannot mask and blocked access to certain countries on a national level. Major countries will adopt the new standards alongside the US to maintain trading, and the Old Internet will exist only in 3rd world countries and states such Russia, North Korea and China - who wouldn't mind cutting themselves from the West.

Dont take this seriously etc etc.