Challenges and Opportunities: The Future of the Internet, Volume 4 is the fourth volume in a series on the future of communications by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. Is Google making us stupid--what is the future of intelligence in the age of instant information? This and other important issues were addressed by nearly 900 expert respondents who wrote compelling answers to the 10 questions asked in the Future of the Internet IV survey. Technologists, business leaders, scholars and others shared their views about the Internet and the evolution of: intelligence; reading, writing and the rendering of knowledge; identity and authentication; gadgets, applications and the predictability of innovation; personal and social relationships; industrial-age institutions; cloud computing; the Semantic Web and Linked Data; Generation Y, also known as the Millennials; and the core values of the Internet, such as the end-to-end principle. This book is an extension of and deeper look at the results of six Pew Internet/Imagining the Internet Center reports generated from the survey in 2010. About the series: Technology builders, entrepreneurs, consultants, academicians, and futurists from around the world share their wisdom in The Future of the Internet surveys conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. The series of surveys garners smart, detailed assessments of multi-layered issues from a variety of voices, ranging from the scientists and engineers who created the first Internet architecture a decade ago to social commentators to technology leaders in corporations, media, government, and higher education.
Janna Quitney Anderson is an Associate Professor and Director of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University and she works as a research fellow for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. She is the author of the book "Imagining the Internet," (Rowman & Littlefield) and the "Future of the Internet" book series (Cambria Press). She is a member of the editorial board of Newspaper Research Journal; a reviewer for New Media & Society; and a contributor to State of the Future reports.
She is a lead author of Pew Internet's "Future of the Internet" survey and director of Imagining the Internet, http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org/, a Webby Honors-winning online compilation of survey studies and documentary videos illuminating the potential future of the Internet. This project, launched in 2003, has involved hundreds of Elon students in global communications research. It has created an amazing archive of thousands of predictions about the future of the Internet, many of them packaged in video format.
Anderson has written articles for USA Today, Advertising Age and the New York Times News Service. She serves on the boards of the Lifeboat Foundation and DiploFoundation. She earned her MA in journalism at the University of Memphis and she has been on the faculty at Elon University since spring 1999. Previous to that she spent 20 years working as an award-winning copy editor, reporter, and features editor at newspapers in Minnesota and North Dakota.
