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The Future of the Internet IV

Feb 19, 2010Lee Rainie

Director Lee Rainie will be reporting on the results of a new survey of experts predicting what the Internet will look like in 2020.

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Unfinished Symphony: What we don't know about the future of the internet

Oct 2, 2009Lee Rainie

A discussion of the critical uncertainties about the evolution of the internet

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Participation Matters

Sep 22, 2009Susannah Fox

Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.

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Internet Turns 40 Today… Or Does It?

Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News

Sep 2, 2009

First Network Connection Between Two Computers Took Place Sept. 2, 1969

Though it might try to hide its graying hairs, it was 40 years ago today that computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, established a network connectio...

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Machines in control: How real is the threat of autonomous technology?

Tech.view, Economist

Aug 28, 2009

In 2006, a survey by Elon University and the Pew Internet Project in America asked some 742 technology experts and social critics whether autonomous machines would leave humans out of the loop. Slightly over half thought people would not lose control...

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The Net Effect

Brooke Gladstone, NPR's On the Media

Aug 14, 2009

LEE RAINIE: In the data that we gather in our research, we don't see a lot of increased levels of loneliness, increased levels of isolation. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Rainie’s project offers periodic updates on the future of the Internet. LEE RAINIE: ...

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The New News Media-scape

Feb 17, 2009Lee Rainie

This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.

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In 2020, trying to get to work in the snow won't be a big deal

Michelle Goodman, Seattle Times

Dec 23, 2008

"That's because, by 2020, mobile phones will be the predominant way to access the Internet, many corporate meeting spaces will be virtual, and for information workers, work and leisure time will have become so intertwined that we won't give a second ...

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The Internet in 2020

Kenneth Corbin, InternetNews.com

Dec 17, 2008

"The end of the year is a wonderful time for predictions.

But instead of looking ahead to 2009, the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently canvassed leading Internet experts for their thoughts on what the digital landscape will look like in 2...

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Most Will Access Web Via Cell Phones by 2020

Chloe Albanesius, PCMag.com

Dec 16, 2008

"By the year 2020, a majority of tech savvy citizens will be attached to their touch-screen and voice recognition-based smart phones, blurring the lines between personal and work time, as well as physical and virtual reality, according to a Tuesday s...

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