Pew Internet & American Life Projec está haciendo una investigación sobre el futuro de Internet. Piden la opinión sobre el efecto de la red en los próximos 10 años a través de un cuestionario online.

Y lo bonito es que se basa en un proyecto que recoge las opiniones de expertos del sector realizadas entre 1990 y 1995. Más de 4.000 predicciones que han recogido y que utilizan para enriquecer el presente estudio.

No somos nadie. Y si no, al tiempo.

Algunas de las joyas:

Everything from telegraphy and photography in the 19th century to the silicon chip in the 20th has amplified the din of information, until matters have reached such proportions today that for the average person, information no longer has any relation to the solution of problems ... Our defenses against information glut have broken down; our information immune system is inoperable. We don't know how to filter it out; we don't know how to reduce it; we don't know to use it. – Neil Postman, 1990

Cyberspace without carefully laid channels of choice may become a waste of space. - Michael Heim, 1992

The Internet will be to women in the '90s what the vibrator was to women in the '70s. It's going to have that power. - Lisa Palac, 1994

The value of information about information can be greater than the value of the information itself. - Nicholas Negroponte, 1994

From now on, the struggle will not be over mechanical control of the means of information, but over spin-control of the zeitgeist. - Bruce Sterling, 1994

We have to resist media imperialism - the tendency to colonize, to define new technologies in terms of the old ... Redefine, don't repackage. - Barry Diller, 1995

How do we make sure, when we're riding down that info highway, that we don't get a flat or become roadkill or some other ridiculous cliche? … Here's what I think - you'll go online, nothing really interesting will happen for one or two years, and you'll write off interactivity as a failure … There isn't a single gold-paved road to success in this new environment. There is no road map or users manual. It's not something you can research. And there is nothing to be gained by forcing new opportunities into the boxes of past experience. What we need to do is slow down. To relax. – Barry Diller, 1995