Voices of the People | Imagining the Internet

Public Predictions Database

This section of Imagining the Internet is a collection of public-submitted predictions from around the world, submitted via an online form directly to the Imagining the Internet project in the decade-long span from 2004 to 2013 by fans of our first collection of expert comments, the Early 1990s Predictions Database, logged from 1990 to 1995.

Here you can read the fascinating foresight statements of nearly a thousand people from around the world who have shared in their contributions to the Imagining the Internet site. You can also do a refined search of the Voices of the People submissions (search for specific topics, the predictors’ area of expertise, the location of predictors or by keyword or date of prediction).

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Rivers that tie, but divide
Internet and similar ICT will tie distant peoples while dividing neighbors
Future Education Decoded
Education will be decoded to: General Education, from K-4 focusing on mastery of literacy and numeracy; Specialized Education, grades 5-10 + two years preparatory for either university or initiating their own business; University, graduate and post-graduate studies will be research focused/based.
Just rElAx…
I can only imagine the sacrificial purge, the nation-by-nation "cleaning of ones closet" to eventually reach this hunky-dory paradigm we have viewed°
The Internet will enable Direct-Electronic-Democracy
The Internet will replace a representative democracy with a direct electronic democracy in the future.
Human knowledge commerce net
Human knowledge commerce should happen between people where knowledge and resources can bartered between people
Taking Back The Vision
There will come a time when the abyss of overtaken networking will reach its inevitable end and rationality will prevail
LIGHT
Enlightened Humanity
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.
Internet for all
Internet without frontier
Semantic ecosystem must be improved upon
Future of Internet is in finding convergence between meaning and usability.
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.
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.
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.
We must bring the Internet back…
To ensure that it remains a community for building a information pool not a new real living environment
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.
kNitting the kNet
kNet is a vision, a ficticional scenario of possible future knowledge sharing plattform.
Inverse Search
Inverse search will play an increasingly important role in ecommerce as people consolidate efforts to aggregate, filter and manage information.
The age of microcommunities in a global world
The era of big corporations is over.
Communication Carried Out Via Brain
Small chips in our head(brain)
Effects of Internet Use
Internet research papers have citation rot- the footnotes to URLs where webpages come back 401 or have changed.

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