Convergence of Broadband Internet, 3G Cellphones, Digital TV, Online
Gaming, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds, Consumer Robotics and the Digital Home.
The future exists in South Korea
What is the future like? We know that current trends suggest the internet
will be available practically everywhere. We know that internet access is becoming increasingly broadband. We know broadband
speeds are climbing.
In addition, we know internet users are increasingly accessing the web wirelessly.
We know cellphones reach ever more of the population. We know cellphones are going 3G high speed. We know that media is going
digital, from music to movies and digital
TV. We see convergence of media, web and communications, from such innovations
as IPTV to services such as social networking.
But where will it all lead? What will the world be like in the
near future, when everybody has internet access, at high-speed broadband? When everybody has not only a cellphone, but also
even teenagers have cameraphones on high-speed 3G high networks?
How will our daily life be different when our home is digitaland connected,
when all government services are provided digitally when digital TV is in our car and on our phone? When virtual worlds are
formed, digital communities emerge, our money is digital, and our online lives take on a meaning of their own? What happens
to our work, our families, our lives?
