Internet's future in 2020 debated

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The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology thinkers

 

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.

 

She added: "One of their big concerns is: Who controls the internet architecture they have created?"

 

"The internet will have gone beyond personal communications," by 2020 he wrote.

 

"Mobile internet will be dominant," he explained. "By 2020, most mobile networks will provide one-gigabit-per-second-minimum speed, anywhere, anytime.

 

"Dominant access tools will be mobile, with powerful infrastructure characteristics. All applications will come from the net."

 

Many of the surveyed experts predicted isolated and small-scale violent attacks to try and thwart technology's march.

 

"Today's eco-terrorists are the harbingers of this likely trend," wrote Ed Lyell, an expert on the internet and education.

[Ian Wood 1]

I think that humanity will be its own undoing.. People are just too greedy to benefit from one another anymore.. No matter what the outcome of technology is, people will just find new ways to abuse it..