These Experts Have a Vision for the Internet in 2035 – The Mac Observer

Have you ever wondered about the internet in 2035 and how different it could be? A report from Pew Research Center shares what experts believe.

A total of 434 technology innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists provided open-ended responses to this question:

We invite you to imagine a better world online: What is one example of an aspect of digital life that you think could be different in 2035 than it is today? We invite you to create a vignette of something you would like to see taking place in a new and improved digital realm in 2035. Your example might involve politics or social activities or jobs or physical and mental health or community life or education. Feel free to think expansively and specifically.

Here are some of the ideas:

Its a 100-page report and the above is only a sampling. The full report goes into more detail about each theme. Of course, its not visions of utopia. Joseph Turow, professor of media systems and industries at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that true contextual advertising will become the norm:

The best kind of paid internet messaging in 2035 would be a sophisticated version of contextual advertising. That would involve using machine learning and deep neural network programs to examine what a person is reading, hearing or viewing on a site or app, and then to serve an ad for a product or service that seems to complement, supplement, or in some other way relate to the persons interests based on that content.

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