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How will the Internet look in 2020? – PEW research report20. January 2009 – 18:17 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH) |
Forecasts of how technology and society will develop in the future are always difficult and get even more difficult if one tries to look in the far future - Or as the German comedian Volker Pispers said: “Would you have believed me ten years earlier that Romania will be part of the NATO?” However the PEW Internet and American Life Project did try to forecast the Internet of 2020 by asking a set of average persons and expert how much they would agree to certain scenarios of how the net will have changed in 2020. You can find the whole report here but I would like to highlight a few of the results.
