internet change our lives

How will the internet change our lives between 2004 and 2014?

A survey of 1,286 network-technology stakeholders conducted by Elon University and the Pew Internet Project in the fall of 2004 harvested thousands of projections of what's to come in the next decade. Participants included people from Internet2, Microsoft, Oracle, RAND, AOL, IBM, the FBI, the FCC; Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, and many other top universities; the Mayo Clinic, SBC, AT&T, Gartner, Jupitermedia and hundreds of other entities. Participating respondents included people from France, Australia, Japan, Canada, Nigeria and around the world. Nearly half of the respondents began using the Internet prior to 1993, including about 6 percent who began using it in 1982 or earlier, and 38 percent who began using it sometime between 1983 and 1992. Survey questions were asked in a web-based instrument that was sent to specific Internet stakeholders who were also asked to share the survey with friends. Respondents were asked to react to 18 thought-provoking questions or statements. This page of the Imagining the Internet Predictions Database includes 22 links to a variety of detailed information tied to the 2004 study.

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