Thursday 14 July 2011

The future - internet gold accounts?

Browsing the web today is not like it was 3 years ago. Everything is now owned by google or a similarly massive company so your data is shared by every website around.
Incidentally, the beauty of facebook over Google+ is that facebook only has SOME of your data. Google has ALL of it! Access to your emails, your search history, google checkouts, Skype calls, the lot. Just be careful what you search for.....

Anyway, getting back a bit on topic, will the next few years bring with it a gold account version of the internet?
I am thinking that a resourceful company will come up with some way to offer full VIP access to your regular trolling sites. This could include YouTube with no adverts, no popups on your newspaper of choice etc.

I really hope that the internet doesn't go down this route - it should always be free - but I feel that in a future where more and more people are accessing the same information, a need wil arise for some people to feel 'VIP' and therefore better than everyone else.