Internet gives way to the "Splinternet"

[joe.pistell]

It's the year 2020. The internet is everywhere, its inside everything. Browser use was so 2005ish.

Your TV has apps that deliver content and entertainment and have replaced the old TV channels.

Your Google Glasses stream stock quotes, tell you when you next appt is, you like its face recognition because you can't remember a name to save your life You remember the old days when you had a box in your pocket or clipped to your belt that you made calls on. These Google Glasses are light weight, hold a charge for days and do everything your phone use to do and so much more.

You car depends on the cloud for everything from self-navigation to self-fill ups, to self service (it goes to the dealership for service while your at work or asleep). The cloud feeds you car with software updates to keep it's 70mpg tax credit intact.

Zip Cars is the single largest fleet owner as their app calls a self driving car to your residence (like a taxi) to take you to the airport.

Thats 7 years ahead. Far fetched? We've come a LONG way since 2005.

Anyone else seeing the "Splinternet" in daily life... TODAY?

 

[GrantG]

It's the year 2020. The internet is everywhere, its inside everything. Browser use was so 2005ish.

Your TV has apps that deliver content and entertainment and have replaced the old TV channels.

Your Google Glasses stream stock quotes, tell you when you next appt is, you like its face recognition because you can't remember a name to save your life You remember the old days when you had a box in your pocket or clipped to your belt that you made calls on. These Google Glasses are light weight, hold a charge for days and do everything your phone use to do and so much more.

You car depends on the cloud for everything from self-navigation to self-fill ups, to self service (it goes to the dealership for service while your at work or asleep). The cloud feeds you car with software updates to keep it's 70mpg tax credit intact.

Zip Cars is the single largest fleet owner as their app calls a self driving car to your residence (like a taxi) to take you to the airport.

Thats 7 years ahead. Far fetched? We've come a LONG way since 2005.

Anyone else seeing the "Splinternet" in daily life... TODAY?

Joe, by chance do you know anybody at Zip Cars? If so, should I consider this a stock recommendation?

Zipcar, inc. (NASDAQ: ZIP)	10:29 AM ET on Jan 25, 2013
Last Price	Change	Open	Day High	52-Week High
12.20	0.00 (0.000%)	12.20	12.21	16.25
Volume	Previous Close	Day Low	52-Week Low
87,800	12.20	12.20	5.90

 

[joe.pistell]

Grant,

Driverless car is far enough out that there is plenty of time for the market to take shape. If I were to make a crystal ball call on this, the "time sharing of a fleet of driverless cars" is far better suited to a far larger organization than ZIP.

Player#1: If I were the OE's, I'd be all over this (time to make a totally new transportation product and distribution model to allow them to break into retail).

Player #2: Time Share use of transportation is mostly a metro concept. The other 98% of the USA will buy it from traditional venues (aka Dealerships).

 

[joe.pistell]

[url]http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=driverless%20car[/URL]

 

[joe.pistell]

The driverless car is just one pipe into the cloud.

How about the grocery store pipe into the cloud?
Alex Snyder told me he'd like to send his driverless car to the grocery store because the Grocery ID's that have passed into the trash have generated a new grocery order.

 

[joe.pistell]

My Brother inlaw is a software engineer in a large and rapidly growing company that helps other companies build "internet appliances". He is connected with a project working with the NYC DPW.

NYC DPW haulers have to stop at every public waste bin to collect trash. Studies have shown that most all are not full. The time and gasoline waste is enormous. They are building a simple sensor in the trash can that can sense how full it is. This data is sent to the cloud via inexpensive cell data bursts, sent to a DPW management and communication system and sent to the DPW driver. His route is now created by how and where the filled containers are, rather than a set route.

Communication from container to the cloud is based on the same system that'll tell your auto insurance company how many miles a year you drive and how agressive a driver you are (Insurance paid by usage).

It's here already
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