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Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:48 PM<br>Subject: [discuss] Report from Pew and Elon on Digital Life in 2025<br>To: "<a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a> List" <<a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org">discuss@1net.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org">air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org">air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org</a>><br>
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Many people on this list may find a report released by Pew Research and the Imagining the Internet Center today to be relevant and useful. Titled<i> "<u><a href="http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact.xhtml" target="_blank">Digital Life
in 2025</a></u></i>," it is an analysis of nearly 1,500 responses to a question about the impact of the Internet by 2025. (Thanks to the many people in this group who participated in the survey.) </div>
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Among the 15 themes that were identified in the analysis of the responses were several that prove that close attention must be devoted – as it is now and beyond – to the details of Internet evolution.</div>
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<div style="font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>The 15 themes extracted from the 150 pages (single-spaced) of survey responses to the question on Internet impact by 2025 and good and bad results include: </b></font></div>
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The Internet will be invisibly interwoven in daily life.</span></span></div>
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It could be much more advanced or it may be much the same in 2025 but more people will certainly have access globally.</span></span></div>
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The spread of the Internet will enhance global connectivity that fosters more relationships and less ignorance.</span></span></div>
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The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data will make people more aware of their world and their own behavior.</span></span></div>
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Augmented reality and wearable devices will be implemented to monitor and give quick feedback, especially in regard to personal health.</span></span></div>
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Political awareness and action will be facilitated and more peaceful change and public uprisings like the Arab Spring will emerge.</span></span></div>
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The spread of the "Ubernet" will diminish the meaning of borders, and new "nations" of those with shared interests may emerge and exist beyond the capacity of current nation-states to control</span></span></div>
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The Internet will become "the Internets" as access, systems, and principles are renegotiated.</span></span></div>
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An Internet-enabled revolution in education will spread more opportunities.</span></span></div>
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Dangerous divides between "haves" and "have-nots" may expand, resulting in resentment and possible violence.</span></span></div>
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Abuses and abusers will "evolve and scale," human nature isn't changing - there's laziness, bullying, stalking, pornography, dirty tricks, crime.</span></span></div>
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Governments and corporations will try to assert power as they invoke security and cultural norms.</span></span></div>
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People will make tradeoffs favoring convenience and perceived immediate gains over privacy.</span></span></div>
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Humans and their current organizations may not respond quickly enough to the challenges presented by complex networks.</b></span></span></div>
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Most people are not yet noticing the profound changes communications networks are already bringing about.</b></span></span></div>
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Foresight and accurate predictions can make a difference.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">I highlighted the last three because they are of extreme importance, according to some of the wisest of the experts surveyed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">You can read the full details of the report and nearly all of the responses given or download the report here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact.xhtml" style="text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact.xhtml</a> - full
report online on one page</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact_credit.xhtml" style="text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact_credit.xhtml</a> –
all for-credit responses</span><u><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></u><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact_anon.xhtml" style="text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact_anon.xhtml</a> –
all anonymous responses that provide value (beyond answers such as "I have no idea" or "Same" or "Different")</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Best regards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Janna Quitney Anderson</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><br>
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