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* The current Internet architecture will not be replaced by a completely new system in 2020, but search, security and reliability will have been enhanced by next-generation research, 78% of experts agree. (Only 6% disagreed, and 16% did not respond).
* The lines between personal and professional time will be hard to identify, “and that’s OK,” in the view of 56% of Pew’s experts.
* By 2020, people will be more open to sharing personal information, opinions and emotions because of Internet technology, but experts are split down the middle on whether this new transparency will heighten individual integrity and forgiveness.
* Six out of ten experts do not think strict content controls will be in place with copyright-protection technology by 2020.
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More Examples Lacking ForethoughtBy Anonymous on December 15, 2008, 6:26 pmThis is akin to scientists in the 60s claiming pneumatic tubes would be our primary method of communication in the 90s. These 'experts' are great at predicting the...
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Mobile Phone is PDA is PCBy StephenDCovey on December 16, 2008, 7:52 amIn a way, this is a no-brainer. It simply depends upon your definition of "mobile phone". My PDA is, of course, a mobile phone, running something remotely akin to...
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MobilePhonesBy Anonymous on December 16, 2008, 9:47 amPossible, but unlikely! The net is getting more focused on video. It is human nature to want to watch video, and especially longer-length video, on the largest screen...
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You forgot about micro projectorsBy Anonymous on December 16, 2008, 10:43 amWithin the next ten years we will have LED and/or laser micro projectors which will use very little power and which will fit inside of a cell phone. By 2020, we...
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BCI AND TRANSHUMANISMBy Anonymous on December 16, 2008, 11:42 amJeez, what's stupid humanity doing? So bored and catastrophic is the entropy and myopia of today's human being that he/she needs to enter a fiction, an imaginary...
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