How will the Internet of Things look by 2025?Lee RainieDirector, Internet, Science, and Technology ResearchMarch 30, 2016 ABA: Science and Technology Law

http://www.pewresearch.org/

Pew Research Center – Imagining the Internet Center (Elon University)

November 25–January 13, 2014 2,551 respondents

19% research scientist10% authors, editors, journalists9% entrepreneurs, biz leader 8% tech developers8% activists7% futurists, consultants2% legislators, lawyers2% pioneers

Digital Life in 2025

The Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and

ill

The rollout

BODIES (CYBORGS) ME TRACKERS &

DIAGNOSERS

INSTANT INTELLIGENCE ON OTHERS & STUFF

REMOTE

CONTROLLERS

REMINDERS AND ARCHIVING

EXTRA BRAIN LOBE & PAIR OF HANDS

Implantables

HOMESHOMESSMART

SYSTEMS

FINDABLE ITEMS

WARNING SERVICES

ANTICIPATORY & MEDIA DELIVERY

SURFACES

COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIESMORE EFFICIENT

& CHEAPER SERVICES

TRANSPORTATION & PARKING

POLLUTION

CROWDSOURCED INTELLIGENCE

ENVIRONMENT

CLIMATE & POLLUTION

MONITOR EARTH SYSTEMS

TRACK WILDLIFE & HABITAT

INFRASTRUCTURE WARNING

SYSTEMS & WEAR AND TEAR

Bright sides

Theme 1) Information sharing over the Internet will be effortlessly interwoven into daily life making

us smarter, safer, more efficient. ‘Computication’ involving ‘smart agents’ will be commonplace.

Theme 2) Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, wearable devices, and big data will make people more aware of their world and their own behavior

– which will especially aid in health care.

Theme 3) Social and business encounters will be shaped by virtual reality and telepresence. Interfaces with data

and objects will change and become easier. Speech and gesture interaction will matter more

Theme 4) The environment and structures themselves will become ‘intelligent’ and expand our knowledge about

them – plus, enable their own ‘maintenance’ and ‘repairs’

Dark sides

Theme 1) Privacy will be more at risk and something perhaps only the

privileged will enjoy.

Theme 2) The nature of work will change in unprecedented ways as robots and artificial

intelligence assume greater roles in job functions

Theme 3) Dangerous divides between haves and have-nots may expand, resulting in

resentment and possible violence.

Theme 4) Abuses and abusers will ‘evolve and scale.’ Human nature isn’t changing. Those pursuing

crime, laziness, bullying, stalking, stupidity, pornography, and dirty tricks have new capacity to

make life miserable for others.

Theme 5) Humans and their organizations may not respond quickly enough to

challenges presented by complex networks.

Fear not