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5 fantastic methods of making the most out of broadband by the year 2020

We all find it increasingly difficult to be without broadband internet for long and, as
time progresses and technology becomes ever more sophisticated, that looks like
becoming an even greater aspect of our daily lives. Looking to the future, by the time
we get to the year 2020 the broadband internet, as we know it now, could look very
different indeed. What will happen? Here are five possibilities…

The Cloud

Cloud technology is already becoming a popular way of utilising the best aspects of
the internet and many big businesses are seeing this as the way forward for their
future business broadband needs. The Cloud is a virtual world where data is kept on remote
servers, so there’s no IT infrastructure to worry about. Home users can tap into the
same sort of experience too, meaning that everything you’d normally store on a hard
disk at home can be kept in the safe and secure confines of the Cloud instead. High-
speed broadband connectivity means that this has the potential to become a very
big part of things in just a few years time.

Entertainment central

There is already an amazing selection of entertainment to be found on the internet,
but as broadband connectivity speeds up over the coming years then we’re
increasingly likely to see a lot more too. Currently, some services can be subject to
fluctuations and drops in the quality of delivery, but as fibre-optic networks are now
steadily replacing the old copper wire technology from a bygone age then so we will
see a marked improvement in the audio and visual content that we consume on the
internet.

Do it online

With improved broadband connectivity it’s also very likely that we’ll be conducting
an awful lot more of our daily chores using the power of the internet too. Even
now, many people are enjoying the freedom and convenience of buying and selling
goods and services online and that’s only likely to expand even more as the internet
becomes increasingly dependable. While security is always a worry for many users,
its possible that in the future we’ll see online transactions that are safe as houses,
thanks to sophisticated new encryption techniques that will help keep the hackers
at bay.

Going handheld

Modern day broadband is pretty good at delivering the internet at high-speed,

but the experience is likely to become a lot more portable as time goes by. We are
already seeing a wealth of handheld gadgets, and thanks to the crop of new tablet
computers and smartphones, it looks like consumers will be looking towards pocket
sized and easily transported options when it comes to enjoying their daily fix on
high-speed connectivity

Keep it cheap

The other amazing thing about all of this incredible broadband internet potential
is that many options will be a good deal cheaper than they are at present. Thanks
to increased competition and a wealth of great deals coming along all the time, it
should soon be possible to enjoy the best that the world of broadband internet has
to offer, but at a fraction of the current cost. What’s more, the way you pay for things
will probably utilize the likes of NFC, or Near Field Communication, that allows you
to purchase goods and services with a simple swipe of your electronic gadget.



About the author: Joe Linford contributed this post on behalf of Broadband Genie, the online comparison site for broadband and free laptops with mobile broadband offers .