Ubiquitous information: Will the internet soon be in our heads?

Netbooks, Android OS, Palm Pre WebOS, 3G cards, GPS units, Kindles; They all want to be on the internet.

Laptops are getting smaller and turning into always connected devices with built-in 3G. Manufacturers cram cell phone technologies into GPS units in order to download realtime traffic info. You can download books anywhere you are with Amazon's Kindle and sprint's network. People are starting to put Google's Android OS into more devices: Android GPS, Movit Mini, Asus Android Netbook, Android everywhere.

What's happening? Computers are becoming smaller and cell technologies are permeating their way into all sorts of devices. The internet is becoming ubiquitous.

We will begin to see platforms and chipsets emerge that can be placed in any device providing a common framework for communicating over the internet.  Google has begun to do this with Andrioid and it's just the start.

What possibilities exist when the internet can be anywhere? Perhaps real-time heads-up traffic displays in your car. Maybe it's a small unit that always shows the price of gold for use in pawn shops. Maybe a pair of glasses with a projected display in one eye and face recognition to recall all communications with the person you are talking to. Maybe we'll have internet chipsets in our heads in 100 years.

Information will be in all places at all times. Soon enough, you won't need to download things any longer. The internet will be your hard drive.

The connection is made!

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