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“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” -Steve Jobs
With the rapid rise of technology, physical, moral and financial issues are sure to arise. The constant Space Race that is the Tech business can either result in a company making it big or making it broke. Successful people in the tech business are some of the wealthiest in our society. Especially those in the business of Internet and video games. The next frontier for these tech gurus to strike gold is augmented reality. For augmented reality especially, there are many business issues that must be overcome for it to become a successful platform. Video games and the internet have progressed through business issues and have stood the test of time, making them highly reliable and usable. They have overcome many business issues, but they inevitably still face some.
Internet
One of the many issues that the internet faces is regulation. There are a couple of agencies that “control” in internet. The overall governance at the moment is from a nonprofit in the United States that at one point was contracted by the federal government, but is now completely separate. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit’s name and answers to a board of international stakeholders and many committees (Chang). This raises many debates and some argue that we have “given away the internet”. However as Ingrid Burrington (an expert on the infrastructure of the internet) puts it best: “[we are] under the impression that we owned the Internet to begin with, and we never really did. ” However, many countries around the world don’t have as many people fighting back against this because of their strict access laws. For example, in China you can be arrested for blogging or emailing about something that is going against the government. In the Middle East the federal government is creating an entire network in hopes to prevent attacks against its government. In the region of Turkestan, the governments are the only internet provider.
Another agency, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), also manages the internet. One current issue the FCC is creating is the proposed plan to end net neutrality. Internetsociety.org describes net neutrality as “… a complex and controversial topic and is an important part of a free and open Internet. Enabling access, choice, and transparency of Internet offerings empowers users to benefit from full access to services, applications, and content available on the Internet.” This is what the aim of the new FCC plan is set to demolish. The current laws, set by the federal government, prohibit ISPs or Internet Service Providers, from slowing down or blocking content that might hurt their business. For more information on this current business issue, see this article in the New York Times.
Graphical web browsers historically have not created problems for internet users