News organizations around the world have reported in recent days on research by associate professor Janna Q. Anderson for the Imagining the Internet Center in Elon's School of Communications, conducted in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Media outlets include the following:
Agence France Presse (AFP)
The Washington Post
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Charlotte Observer
The Baltimore Sun
The Detroit News
CNET News
Voice of America Radio
ComputerWorld
Wireless and Mobile News
Cellular-News
ABS/CBN News
Government Technology
Anderson was named “Newsmaker of the Week” by Network World, a prominent technology Web site which covered the survey release.
“The Future of the Internet III” report released on Dec. 14, 2008, offers predictions from Internet leaders on the use of technology in 2020.
Key findings in the report:
- The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
- The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
- Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
- Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.
- The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
- “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.