---
title: "Internet evolution: Where hyperconnectivity and ambient intimacy take us"
description: "Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie presented some of the many \"future of the internet\" scenarios predicted by experts, as documented by Pew Internet & American Life Project surveys and other current research."
date: "2010-07-09"
authors:
  - name: "Janna Anderson"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/janna-anderson/"
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/07/09/internet-evolution-where-hyperconnectivity-and-ambient-intimacy-take-us/"
categories:
  - "Future of the Internet (Project)"
  - "Technology Adoption"
tags:
  - "Future of the Internet"
---

# Internet evolution: Where hyperconnectivity and ambient intimacy take us

Imagine the implications of the future that most technology experts foresee: Wireless devices are embedded in everything—including us; cameras record activity in all public spaces; databases catalogue our online moves; massive data centers allow our information to be sorted and understood in new ways; the physical environment changes as “the Internet of things” and “everywhere” applications are widespread; projection of digital material is possible on all kinds of surfaces; immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing makes us available to more people in more ways; software exhibits humanlike thinking; and a direct brain-to-computer interface is possible. These are just some of the future scenarios predicted by experts, [as documented by Pew Internet & American Life Project surveys](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Topics/Technology-and-Media/Future-of-the-Internet.aspx) and other current research. These advances can be expected to generate both positive and negative effects and lead to considerable social change.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/internet-evolution-where-hyperconnectivity-and-ambient-intimacy-take-us-4737358