Doc searls informs about The Future of the Internet IV, the study conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. Survey respondents shared thousands of issues-exposing predictive statements tied to five "tension pairs" projecting their attitudes about the likely state of things in 2020. Experts were asked about the Internet and the evolution of: intelligence; reading and the rendering of knowledge; identity and authentication; gadgets and applications; and the core values of the Internet. The 45-page briefing as a PDF is available for downloaded here. In this report, you will find experts’ thoughts on the following issues:
1. Will Google make us stupid?
2. Will we live in the cloud or the desktop?
3. Will social relations get better?
4. Will the state of reading and writing be improved?
5. Will those in GenY share as much information about themselves as they age?
6. Will our relationship to key institutions change?
7. Will online anonymity still be prevalent?
8. Will the Semantic Web have an impact?
9. Are the next takeoff technologies evident now?
10. Will the Internet still be dominated by the end-to-end principle?
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