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Feb 19, 2010Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie
Experts and stakeholders discuss predictions about the future of the internet. Update: Correction.
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We have asked experts and analysts to assess various scenarios about the evolution of technology and how technology change might affect social, political, and economic activity in the future.
Mar 31, 2010Lee Rainie
A look at the latest survey results about how experts predict the future impact of technology
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Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle
Mar 15, 2010
In a relatively short time, the dot-com revolution has "woven itself into every nook and cranny of the commercial world," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, a Washington think tank that studies ...
Cecilia Kang, Washington Post | Post Tech
Feb 19, 2010
Internet scholars and high-tech business leaders said the future of the Web probably won't be as open as it is today, where users can access any information they choose and often for free. Instead, some experts envisioned a future in which walled gar...
Suzanne Choney, MSNBC.com
A decade from now, Google won't make us "stupid," the Internet may make us more literate in a different kind of way and efforts to protect individual anonymity will be even more difficult to achieve, according to many of the experts surveyed for a lo...
Feb 19, 2010Lee Rainie
Director Lee Rainie will be reporting on the results of a new survey of experts predicting what the Internet will look like in 2020.
Oct 2, 2009Lee Rainie
A discussion of the critical uncertainties about the evolution of the internet
Sep 22, 2009Susannah Fox
Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.
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Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News
Sep 2, 2009
First Network Connection Between Two Computers Took Place Sept. 2, 1969 Though it might try to hide its graying hairs, it was 40 years ago today that computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, established a network connectio...
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Tech.view, Economist
Aug 28, 2009
In 2006, a survey by Elon University and the Pew Internet Project in America asked some 742 technology experts and social critics whether autonomous machines would leave humans out of the loop. Slightly over half thought people would not lose control...
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.