Internet 2020

This is what people are predicting:

“The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020.”

“The internet will have gone beyond personal communications, by 2020.”

“The internet will open worldwide access to success.”

“The internet world in 2020 will be ‘Flat’. By 2020, the free flow of information will completely blur current national boundaries as they are replaced by city-states, corporation-based cultural groupings and/or other geographically diverse and reconfigured human organisations tied together by global networks.”

“Many more of today's 10 billion new embedded micros per year will be on the internet.”

“Mobile devices will be at the forefront of the net.”

“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.”

“Real interoperability will be contingent on replacing our bias for competition with one for collaboration.”

“Greater transparency of people and institutions will prevail.”

“By 2020 an increasing number of people will be living and working within ‘virtual worlds’ being more productive online than offline.”

“Virtual Reality will be for Real.”

“Wikipedia will rule in 2020.”

“English would become the lingua franca of the internet by 2020.”

“In 2020, it may no longer be ‘screens’ with which we interact.”

“Networked nirvana will be the new mantra.”

“Before 2020, every new born child in industrialized countries will be implanted with an RFID or similar chip. Ostensibly providing important personal and medical data, these may also be used for tracking and surveillance.”

“While area codes might still define geographic locations in 2020, reality codes may define virtual locations. Multiple personalities will become commonplace, and cyberpsychiatry will proliferate.”

“Psychologists will be in demand in 2020 to cure the Net Addicts.”