About the series: Technology builders, entrepreneurs, consultants,
academicians, and futurists from around the world share their
wisdom in The Future of the Internet surveys conducted by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. The
series of surveys garners smart, detailed assessments of
multi-layered issues from a variety of voices, ranging from the
scientists and engineers who created the first Internet
architecture a decade ago to social commentators to technology
leaders in corporations, media, government, and higher education.
Among the respondents are people affiliated with many of the
world's top organizations, including IBM, AOL, Microsoft, Intel,
ICANN, the Internet Society, Google, W3C, Internet2, and Oracle;
Harvard, MIT, and Yale; and the Federal Communications Commission,
FBI, U.S. Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, and U.S.
Department of State. They provide significant and telling responses
to questions about the future of government, education, media,
entertainment, commerce, and more. They foresee continuing
conflicts over control of networked communications and the content
produced and shared online. They also predict the major changes
ahead for everyone in every field of endeavor. Hopes and Fears: The
Future of the Internet, Volume 2 The 2006 Future of the Internet II
survey asked its participants to react to variety of networked
information technology scenarios related to national boundaries,
human languages, artificial intelligence and other topics. Among
the questions implicit in the scenarios were: Will more people
choose to live "off the grid"? Will autonomous machines leave
people out of the loop? Will English be the lingua franca? Will
national boundaries be displaced by new groupings? Among the themes
in the predictions: Continued serious erosion of individual
privacy; the improvement of virtual reality and rising problems
tied to it; greater economic opportunities in developing nations;
changes in languages; the rise of autonomous machines that operate
beyond human control.
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