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    "title" : "Anytime, Anywhere, Anything: The Effect of Mobile on the Web in 25 Years |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Anytime, Anywhere, Anything: The Effect of Mobile on the Web in 25 Years","summary" : "In 25 years, imagine a world where anytime, anywhere, any device is just taken for granted. That’s the theme from the responses we got from our Mobile Gov Community of Practice members when we asked them to predict the effect mobile would have on the Web","date" : "2014-03-13T14:32:42-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-13-anytime-anywhere-anything-the-effect-of-mobile-on-the-web-in-25-years.md","slug" : "anytime-anywhere-anything-the-effect-of-mobile-on-the-web-in-25-years","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/03/13/anytime-anywhere-anything-the-effect-of-mobile-on-the-web-in-25-years/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/featured-web-future-166678934-301-x-212.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/featured-web-future-166678934-301-x-212.jpg\"\n    alt=\"featured web future 166678934 301 x 212\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eIn 25 years, imagine a world where anytime, anywhere, any device is just taken for granted.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat’s the theme from the responses we got from our \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/\" title=\"Mobile\"\u003eMobileGov Community of Practice\u003c/a\u003e members when we asked them to predict the effect mobile would have on the Web over the next 25 years.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile no one claimed to have the exact answer, most members described a future state where the Web was pervasive, not just tied to your computer or smartphone, but interacting with anything and everything.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It will be the Internet of Things, plus much more,” said Lawrence Charters, Internet Projects Manager, National Ocean Service, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many community members spoke of \u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/06/05/mary-meekers-internet-trends-report/\"\u003escannable, wearable, drivable and flyable\u003c/a\u003e devices in private sector development or ones that they currently owned (mostly fitness app related).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Dina Li, an IT Specialist from the USDA Economic Research Service, offered a good illustration of what Charters’ “plus much more” might entail:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe instead of having your prescription medicine tracker on your mobile [phone] and having to check it, you could have a device that simply dispenses the correct pill at the correct time of day based on the prescription that is fed to your device by the doctor or pharmacy. And it could do all the tracking and other stuff…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe future of the web will lead to the blurring of things we consider separate now.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The line between media-specific content providers is forgotten. No more “TV stations” or “web sites.” Simply text, video, audio content,” says Ryan Day, an IT Specialist at the U.S. General Services Administration.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost incredibly, in 25 years we will not think of the web as something separate. As Donna Scholz, Program Manager from U.S. Customs and Border Protection predicts:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing for sure, in 25 years it won’t be “the web,” but the internet will be how society interacts without thinking about how it actually occurs. Just like we don’t currently really think about the infrastructure of electricity or water we use; the internet is becoming a utility through which everybody and everything interconnects. Just as at the turn of the 19th century when it couldn’t be imagined what our lives would be like after electricity became ubiquitous, the same is true with the web.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo how does government prepare for this future state? To be ready, agencies will need to make their data and services available anytime, anywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are already efforts in the federal government to start thinking about content and data separate from the presentation layer. We noted in our \u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/12/31/trends-on-tuesday-federal-agency-mobile-gov-trends-in-2013/\"\u003eTrends on Tuesday: Federal Agency Mobile Gov Trends in 2013\u003c/a\u003e that agencies like Census and the Department of Labor are releasing apps, but also engaging developers around their data and APIs as part of their mobile strategy for those apps. Agencies have been sharing data on \u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"http://www.data.gov\"\u003eData.gov\u003c/a\u003e for years but some agencies are also starting to \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/05/13/federal-mobile-code-sharing-catalog-is-here/\" title=\"Federal Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Is Here\"\u003eshare mobile code\u003c/a\u003e for reuse and third-party improvement.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut this is just a start. Government’s thinking needs not only to be mobile first, but also needs to move “up the stack” and consider how content and data can be structured and available for anytime, anywhere, anything interaction. \u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/05/centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication/\"\u003eContent syndication\u003c/a\u003e efforts and the government-wide \u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/10/28/always-future-ready-the-benefits-of-open-content-models-and-structured-data-webinar/\"\u003eopen content modeling working group\u003c/a\u003e are examples of early shifts toward this thinking.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a LOT more thinking and doing to be done. Help build toward this anytime, anywhere, anything future by getting involved with the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/\" title=\"Mobile\"\u003eMobileGov Community of Practice\u003c/a\u003e or one of \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/\" title=\"Communities\"\u003eour other communities\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee our post on the 25th anniversary of the Web: \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/03/12/in-the-beginning-of-web-in-federal-government/\" title=\"In the Beginning…of Web in Federal Government\"\u003eIn the Beginning…of Web in Federal Government\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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