In a time when information is momentary, ever-evolving, and growing at such extreme rates, It is important to explore where it is coming from, and where it wants to go.

I began to look at what was around me at any given moment. The mobile phone in my pocket. The ipod in my bag. The laptop that follows me everywhere. The TV I watch on my computer. The radio I listen to on my computer . The podcasts that give me news, and knowledge of whatever I want. The accessibility of it all. The customization of it all. The growth of it all. The New Media that was mimicking the old media, but now paving the way for a new way of giving and receiving information.

As I began to explore a little deeper, and break down The Flow, I saw trends in the goals of this media. It wants to get smarter and faster, larger and deeper, easier and closer. As a GenY, I have the knowledge of the world a click away, and I have had this as far as I can remember.

Describing the Flow:

Easy to Understand

The web is growing into the semantic web, an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.

Made by Us

Open source is a philosophy of software distribution that allows anyone to read and modify the program's source code. Because anyone can modify the source code, bug fixes, improvements or implementation of new specific features occur rapidly.

Always In It.

Pervasive computing is a ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, networked world. A mobile device becomes a tool of locating, comparing, sharing, and learning within a shared network. Everything is reachable, and you can reach it.
at any time.

Mark Weiser considered this the end goal, but not without laying down the 3 vital components for this to be reachable.

cheap and low-power devices - Prices drop and the computing power and battery life in these devices offer more time and capabilities within the network.

a network infrastructure - A community must exist, and the ease and stability of the network must offer the public extreme ease of use and reliability.

pervasive applications - A system of connecting the user with the network. As the technology grows, these applications will adapt and change rapidly.

Always Around It.

Ubiquitous Computing is about the new types of computers invisibly embedded into our everyday environment. Rather than explicitly being the "user" of a computer a human will implicitly profit from services running between computers without even taking notice of them.

calm technology - Weiser envisioned computation primarily in the background where it may not even be noticed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
www.generic.jo/glossary.aspx - open source