The Future of the Internet

Umm, so what will the internet look like in 2020? I did a bit of googling and reading myself and this is what I found:

Google won’t make us stupid

Reading, writing, and the rendering of knowledge will be improved

Innovation will continue to catch us by surprise

information will flow relatively freely online, though there will be 

flashpoints over control of the internet

Anonymous online activity will be challenged

This is based on an online survey of 895 technology stakeholders’ and critics’ expectations of social, political  

and economic change by 2020, fielded by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life  

Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2010/Feb/~/media/Files/Reports/2010/Future%20of%20internet%202010%20-%20AAAS%20paper.pdf

Another youtube about the future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41HJTsCoI4

On the “next” Google

Susan Crawford, former member of President Obama’s National Economic Council, now on the law faculty at the University of Michigan is “optimistic that Google will get smarter by 2020 or will be replaced by a utility that is far better than Google.” Others surveyed described new ways of searching (perhaps without realizing that’s what they were doing). Rich Osborne, Web Innovation Officer, University of Exeter, for instance, predicted that “it will become commonplace to be able to overlay reviews of a product simply by pointing a screen at it, or check the weather forecast by pointing your phone at the sky.” (And you can do some of that now with products like Google Goggles and Shaazam.)

http://searchengineland.com/the-future-of-the-internet-search-looks-bright-36585

December 22nd, 2009 by Arley McBlain

OK Internet, let’s call a truce for a minute or two.

As anyone who has spent time on a site’s comment section knows, the Internet can be a cruel place. Articles with the word "Prediction" in the title can invite some pretty terrible and/or amusing flame wars, but I want this article to be just friendly enough that you, the reader, are feeling comfortable enough to jump in with some predictions of your own! There are no wrong answers in a brainstorm. 

1. Audio web surfing

2. We surf on any device

3. Input revisited

4. Mobile networking

5. The end of .com domination

6. IE6 stops being used

http://sixrevisions.com/web-technology/6-predictions-for-the-future-of-the-internet/