Imagining the Internet Predictions Project
 

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LIGHT
Enlightened Humanity  1/16/2012

Online learning communities will revolutionize how people learn in the 21st Century
Online learning communities will continue to augment, displace, and supplant traditional classroom and campus-based learning.  10/3/2011

Internet for all
Internet without frontier  8/28/2011

Semantic ecosystem must be improved upon
Future of Internet is in finding convergence between meaning and usability.  6/30/2011

Peer-To-Peer Networking Implies End of Censorship
The internet & cellphone networks will merge with enhanced peer to peer functionality and will doom centralized information control.  6/14/2011

Financial Sharing: Business Model of the (Very Near) Internet Future
Because the Internet is Us, our lives will become ad supported - Financial sharing is the next paradigm shift.
 7/29/2010

Engaging Product Distribution: e-commerce and gift economy
In the future, dispersed groups will share in private joint activities for the purpose of sharing products that are purchased online.  7/8/2010

We must bring the Internet back...
To ensure that it remains a community for building a information pool not a new real living environment  7/1/2010

Technology in Education: Creating a 21st Century Classroom
The Internet plays a significant role in education for the 21st century, but it cannot replace real experiences, which is the framework for knowledge.  6/17/2010

kNitting the kNet
kNet is a vision, a ficticional scenario of possible future knowledge sharing plattform.  6/1/2010

Inverse Search
Inverse search will play an increasingly important role in ecommerce as people consolidate efforts to aggregate, filter and manage information.  5/19/2010

The age of microcommunities in a global world
The era of big corporations is over.  4/21/2010

Communication Carried Out Via Brain
Small chips in our head(brain)  4/14/2010

Effects of Internet Use
Internet research papers have citation rot- the footnotes to URLs where webpages come back 401 or have changed.  3/16/2010

"The Future is Here, It's Just Not Widely Distributed Yet" -William Gibson
The Internet will become everything.  3/2/2010

Information Troughs: Splintering of Media Culture to be Magnified Online
The splintering of the media that occurred with the proliferation of television and radio channels and choices will be magnified online. This will polarize, rather than unite us.  12/29/2009

The internet will get more advanced
The internet will slowly get more advanced.  12/18/2009

Health Information Revolution: The Advent of eHealth
New health information technologies are increasing access to relevant health information and have the potential to enhance the effectiveness of health care and health promotion.  12/16/2009

Internet and terrorism
Global destruction will not come from bombs, but through internet wars and bugs.  12/12/2009

HYPERLOCAL
Internet will be hyperlocal very soon.  11/17/2009

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