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    The Gurus Speak

    Some of the most prominent and respected technology experts and analysts made far-ranging statements, encompassing many points. Their answers: Things will get better, rather than worse A vortex of innovation and a commons-based economy could be created Jerry Michalski, founder of REX, the Relationship Economy eXpedition, wrote, “I’m going to be an idealist here and […]

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    About this Canvassing of Experts

    The expert predictions reported here about the impact of the Internet over the next ten years came in response to one of eight questions asked by the Pew Research Center Internet Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between November 25, 2013, and January 13, 2014. This is the […]

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    Main Report: An In-depth Look at Expert Responses

    A large majority of the technology experts and engaged Internet users who responded to this canvassing—83%—agreed that the Internet/Cloud of Things and embedded and wearable computing will have widespread and beneficial effects by 2025. Most of the responses shared in this report are from people who took credit for their remarks, but a few of […]

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    The Fulfillment Filter

    Lee Rainie’s commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the PhD and master’s degree recipients from the University of Maryland iSchool — the university’s school of information sciences.

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    The Next America

    America is in the midst of two major changes to its population: We are becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Explore these shifts in our new interactive data essay.

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    Net Neutrality: A Made for Web Debate Methodology

    This report used several different research methods. Data regarding the volume of terms on Twitter used Crimson Hexagon. Data regarding the terminology used during Google searches and the language used by newspapers were derived by the use of Google Trends and searches of LexisNexis. Twitter The volume of tweets was measured using computer coding software […]