Internet2 is an incubator for new technologies, not a replacement for the Internet. Internet2 picks up where progress left off Academic and federal tech initiatives will change IT careers along with the rest of the world. D.C. When the Internet was in its infancy, no one could have imagined today's World Wide Web, he notes. Similarly, in five years, he says, techies may be dealing with applications they can't yet even imagine. And, more importantly, it s not yet possible to predict the fields the new technologies will necessitate.
Wood expects an integration of fields that are viewed today as independent technologies.
Implementation of I2 enhancements will expand the gap between the roles of developers and sysadmins, for example, Wood says, and the space will be filled by a new kind of techie. New jobs will force future techies to span current disciplines. Just as techies may pick their workplace based on the technologies a company employs, students may choose a university based on its access to technologies. It's these same research institutions that teach the techies who ll build, deploy, and maintain the Internet s future technologies and services, Wood says, and ultimately bring those technologies to the commercial Net. Some students and teachers are already using I2 s technologies, so it s very likely that future graduates will expect those same technologies in the workplace.