Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Introduction to the Future Internet: Alternative Visions

  • Chapter
The Future Internet

Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology ((PAIT,volume 17))

Abstract

Many of the visions that shape the Internet’s development and use are driven by research institutions, corporations, and governments, enabling consensus about research and policy problems. While there is not a single vision of the future Internet, there are a number of overlapping, and influential, visions shared between academic and corporate researchers and governments. These all point towards the embedding of computational intelligence into many aspects of everyday life and the growth of technical standards enabling machine-to-machine (M2M) intelligence. The first part of this chapter introduces the dominant techno-utopian vision of the future Internet. Then, the field of futures studies is introduced as a means to perform systematic thinking about alternative futures. Finally, we introduce the individual chapters in this volume.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abowd GD, Ebling M, Hunt G, Lei H, Gellersen H-W (2002) Context-aware computing. IEEE Pervasive Comput 1(3):22–23

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Agrawal S, Lal Das M (2011, December). Internet of things - a paradigm shift of future Internet applications. Paper presented at the second international conference on current trends in technology (NUiCONE 2011), Ahmadabad.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ashton K (2009) That ‘Internet of Things’ thing. RFID J. http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/4986

  • Atzori L, Iera A, Morabito G (2010) The Internet of Things: a survey. Comput Netw 54:2787–2805

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Bauman Z (2006) Liquid times living in an age of uncertainty. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Beck U (1992) Risk Society: towards a new modernity. Sage, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Bell W (1997) Foundations of futures studies: human science for a new era, vol 1. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Bell W (1998) Making people responsible: the possible, the probable, and the preferable. Am Behav Sci 42(3):323–339

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Berners-Lee T (2000) Weaving the Web: the past, present and future of the World Wide Web by its inventor. Texere, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Bradley J, Reberger C, Dixit A, Gupta V (2013) Internet of everything: a $4.6 trillion public-sector opportunity., http://internetofeverything.cisco.com/sites/default/files/docs/en/ioe_public_sector_vas_white%20paper_121913final.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  • Callon M (1987) Society in the making: the study of technology as a tool for sociological analysis. In: Bijker WE, Hughes TP, Pinch TJ (eds) The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 83–103

    Google Scholar 

  • CERP-IoT. European Union, Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things (2010) Vision and challenges for realising the Internet of Things. European Commission – Information Society and Media, Brussels

    Google Scholar 

  • China working on unified national Internet of Things strategic plan (2010) http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/07/05/4884535.htm

  • Dator JA (1996) Futures studies as applied knowledge. In: Slaughter RA (ed) New thinking for a new millennium. Routledge, New York, pp 105–115

    Google Scholar 

  • Dator JA (2002) Introduction: The future lies behind - Thirty years of teaching futures studies. In: Dator J (ed) Advancing futures. Praeger, Westport, CT, pp 1–30

    Google Scholar 

  • Dourish P, Bell G (2011) Divining a digital future: mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Dutton WH (2013) Internet studies. In: Dutton WH (ed) The Oxford handbook of Internet studies. Oxford Press, Oxford

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • European Commission, Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) (2012) H2020 & FP7 reference documents. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/wp-2012_en.html

  • Giddens A (1990) The consequences of modernity. Stanford University Press, Stanford

    Google Scholar 

  • Glenn J (2009) Scenarios. In: Glenn JC, Gordon TJ (eds) Futures research methodology – Version 3.0. AC/UNU Millennium Project. American Council for the UN University, Washington, DC, pp 1–52

    Google Scholar 

  • Heath T, Bizer C (2011) Linked data: evolving the Web into a global data space. Synth Lect Semantic Web Theory Technol 1(1):1–136

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoffnagle GF (1999) Preface. IBM Syst J 38(4):502–503

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • HP (n.d.) CeNSE (2015) http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hpinformation/environment/cense.html#.Uo1MKMQQZhE

  • Hvistendahl M (2012) China pushes the ‘Internet of Things’. Science 336(6086):1223

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • IBM (2008) A mandate for change is a mandate for smart. Convert Smart Planet Ser 1. Retrieved from http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/files/us__en_us__general__smarterplanet_overview.pdf

  • IBM (2013) Solutions for an aging population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDvW8R4BL0I

  • IBM (2014) IBM Internet of Things: connected cars. Connected homes. Connected lives. http://www.ibm.com/big-data/us/en/big-data-and-analytics/

  • Inayatullah S (2002a) Layered methodology: meanings, epistemes and the politics of knowledge. Futures 34:479–491

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Inayatullah S (2002b) Questioning the future: futures studies, action learning and organizational transformation. Tamkang University, Taipei

    Google Scholar 

  • International Telecommunication Union (2005a) The Internet of things. International Telecommunication Union, Geneva

    Google Scholar 

  • International Telecommunication Union (2005b) Ubiquitous network societies: the case of Japan. International Telecommunication Union, Geneva

    Google Scholar 

  • International Telecommunication Union (2013) ITU releases latest global technology development figures. International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2013/05.aspx#.VDhp8vldW0J

  • International Telecommunication Union (2015) ICT facts & figures. International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFactsFigures2015.pdf

  • Ishigaki Y, Matsumoto Y, Ichimiya R, Tanaka K (2013) Development of mobile radiation monitoring system utilizing smartphone and its field tests in Fukushima. IEEE Sensors J 13(10):3520–3526

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kahn H, Wiener AJ (1967) The year 2000: a framework for speculation on the next thirty-three years. Macmillan, New York, NY

    Google Scholar 

  • Khan R, Khan SU, Zaheer R, Khan S (2012) Future Internet: the Internet of Things architecture, possible applications and key challenges. In: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on frontiers of information technology, pp. 257–260. doi:10.1109/FIT.2012.53

  • Kling R (2000) Learning about information technologies and social change: the contribution of social informatics. Inform Soc 16:217–232

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lamb R, Sawyer S, Kling R (2000) A social informatics perspective on socio-technical networks. Americas conference on information systems (AMCIS) 2000 proceedings. Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, GA, pp 1613–1617

    Google Scholar 

  • Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan (2006) ‘u-Japan Promotion Program 2006’ developed. http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/Releases/Telecommunications/news060908_1.html

  • Oh S-Y (2008) A national project to move on to Ubiquitous Society: IT839. In: Proceedings of the 23rd international technical conference on circuits/systems, computers and communications, pp. 5–8. http://www.ieice.org/proceedings/ITC-CSCC2008/pdf/pSP-5_K2-1.pdf

  • Polak F (1973) The image of the future. Elsevier, Amsterdam

    Google Scholar 

  • Rubin A (1998) Giving images a chance: images of the future as a tool for sociology. Am Behav Sci 42(3):493–504

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schwartz P (1996) The art of the long view: planning for the future in an uncertain world. Currency Doubleday, New York, NY

    Google Scholar 

  • Uckelmann D, Harrison M, Michahelles F (2010) An architectural approach towards the future Internet of Things. In: Uckelmann D et al (eds) Architecting the Internet of Things. Springer, Berlin, pp 1–24

    Google Scholar 

  • van der Heijden K (1996) Scenarios: the art of strategic conversations. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • van der Heijden K, Bradfield R, Burt G, Cairns G, Wright G (2002) The sixth sense: accelerating organizational learning with scenarios. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Vermesan O, Freiss P (2013) Internet of Things: converging technologies for smart environments and integrated ecosystems. River Publishers, Aalborg

    Google Scholar 

  • Vermesan O, Friess P, Guillemin P, Gusmeroli S, Sundmaeker H, Bassi A, Jubert IS, Mazura M, Harrison M, Eisenhauer M, Doody P (2011) Internet of Things strategic research roadmap. In: Vermesan O, Freiss P (eds) Global technological and societal trends from smart environments and spaces to green ICT. River Publishers, Aalborg, pp 9–52

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber RH, Weber R (2010) Internet of Things: legal perspectives. Springer, Berlin

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Weiser M (1991) The computer for the twenty-first century. Sci Am 265:94–101

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson IH (1978) Scenarios. In: Fowles J (ed) Handbook of futures research. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp 225–247

    Google Scholar 

  • Woollacott M (1998) Risky business, safety. In: Franklin J (ed) The politics of risk society. Polity Press, Cambridge, pp 47–49

    Google Scholar 

  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2015) Web of Things at W3C. http://www.w3.org/WoT/

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2550 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Jenifer Winter

  2. Aichi University, 4-60-6 Hiraike-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, 453-8777, Aichi, Japan

    Ryota Ono

Authors
  1. Jenifer Winter
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ryota Ono
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jenifer Winter .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Communications, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Communications, HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA

    Jenifer Winter

  2. Department of Business Administration, Aichi University Department of Business Administration, Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan

    Ryota Ono

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Winter, J., Ono, R. (2015). Introduction to the Future Internet: Alternative Visions. In: Winter, J., Ono, R. (eds) The Future Internet. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22994-2_1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22994-2_1

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-22993-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-22994-2

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation