Evolution of the Internet Architecture, from Network Model to Internet Brain Model

摘要

Based on the new features of the frontier science and technology in the 21st century, this paper proposes that the Internet has evolved from a network structure to a brain model in the past 50 years. The rise of technologies including Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet, industrial Internet, edge computing, artificial intelligence, etc. are all related to this change in the Internet. This paper proposes the definition of a new Internet brain model, elaborates the causes for the emergence of a number of cutting-edge technologies and interrelationships thereof, by depicting the development process of the Internet brain, and predicts the new technologies that will emerge in the next 20 years.