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September 24, 2006

The Internet in 2020 or Ludditeapaloossa?

A great article from BBC News that talks about the future of the Net. It states that some predict that by 2020 there will be a possibly violent revolt against the Internet by neo-Luddites. Read all about it.

Internet’s future in 2020 debated

There are more than a billion people online worldwide
The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology thinkers.
The Pew report on the future internet surveyed 742 experts in the fields of computing, politics and business.

More than half of respondents had a positive vision of the net’s future but 46% had serious reservations.

Almost 60% said that a counter culture of Luddites would emerge, some resorting to violence. (MORE)

Read a summary of the Pew Report, The Future of the Internet II

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