In looking ahead to what Digital Life would be like in a decade form now, the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project conducted an online study from November, 2013 to January, 2014. There were 2, 558 participants comprising knowledgeable individuals and tech builders. Some notable themes were present in what participants foresee.

Respondents foresee the information setting will be such that it will require no effort to access the internet and the majority of people will turn to it so easily that it will be automatic or natural as electricity. Respondents foresee a linking together of mobile, wearable, and embedded computing into the Internet, thereby enabling individuals and their environments to turn to ‘artificial intelligence-enhanced cloud-based information storage and sharing.”

Notably, these knowledgeable individuals share the view that there is an impending future change in  technology. However, they differ on its repercussions. The majority of respondents thank that:

• There will be an ambient networked computing setting established due to prolonged multiplicity od Smart Sensors, cameras, software, databases, and massive data centers in a world-encompassing information fabric called the Internet of Things.
• “Augmented reality” betterment to the actual-world input that individuals understand by using technologies that are portable /wearable/implantable.
• The physical and social realms will experience intelligent analytical mapping, tagging, and databasing (See here).

Concerning the Internet in the next decade. Lee Rainie one of the presenters at the World Future Society World Future 2014 event presented a detailed list of what experts predict for the Internet in the coming ten (10) years. Rainier discussed how internet availability everywhere impacts the way people behave, the arising of new social and cultural separations, the serious disruption on education, and how a new kind of companies will impact the Internet.

To read the full report (See here).