Shorter Pew report on the future of the Internet: kind of like today, only more so.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a 115 page report with findings from an online sample of nearly 750 Internet “stakeholders” in the period from December 2005 to March 2006. The survey asked participants if they agreed or disagreed with seven scenarios about the future and were given the opportunity to elaborate on their answers.

“A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020.”

I was disappointed to see virtually no mention of the Semantic Web, other ’semantic’ technolgies or web services. There was also little about social networking and not much on user-generated content. I suspect this is due to the seven scenarios that participants were asked to respond to.

Maybe the shorter version should be: kind of like 2001, only more so.

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