A Changing Internet: The Convergence Of Blockchain, Internet Of Things, And Artificial Intelligence

As the internet evolves, what will be the impact of the convergence of the current IoT infrastructure with blockchain and artificial intelligence? The internet is evolving beyond its technical infrastructure. As we move towards creating an integrated cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace and space (CAGS) internet of everything (IoE) ecosystem that benefits from the fast-tracking technology, application trend paradigm shifts, and convergence beyond blockchain and artificial intelligence, it raises more questions than answers. The reason behind that is the existing and emerging technologies that have created the internet of things (IoT) are not changing just the internet, but they are instead altering the very things connected to the internet: the devices, sensors, and gateways on the edge of the distributed network that can request a service or start an action without human intervention. As a result, the evolution of the internet is happening at many levels considering artificial intelligence (AI) can now take the petabytes of data they have from a distributed network and extract meaningful information from it.