"The Internet will become faster, cheaper, more wireless and more widely available -- but governments and corporations will limit access.

Addiction to virtual reality will become a big societal problem -- and create new business opportunities.

And the growth of technology is likely to inspire terrorism based not on politics or religion but on hatred or fear of technology.

Those are some of the responses to an Internet survey of almost 750 technology experts, executives, consultants and futurists worldwide released today -- being observed worldwide as OneWebDay -- by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Elon University's Janna Anderson, an assistant professor of communications and director of the Imagining the Internet project, is the lead author of the report, "The Future of the Internet II."


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