Secure and safe internet that is easy to use
This wild card was deemed originally as very dull but very wild. As the title suggests a new Internet would be developed that would be safe from criminal activity and social pathologies (private information theft, pornography,...
Information crisis caused by personalized information delivery
Development of smart internet media technologies, which enable targeted supply of information to individual users according to their expressed preferences and unexpressed patterns of behaviour, together with development of perv...
The internet collapses and cannot be restarted
The internet is the nervous system of the global economy, so if it goes down we have a really big problem.
A cluster of advanced computers take control of the Internet
Advanced AI and semantic web technologies enable computers to collaborate and develop a "mind" of their own. They succeed in shutting large parts of the Internet for extended periods of time.
Collapse of internet network connection structure
Due to quickly growing demand for intenet bandwidth in combination with frequent and massive hacking attempts on the interet, the connection through the network will become highly unstable and unreliable. Practically no real ti...
Empowered internet users take the political power from the o ...
Empowered by the internet, individuals wield influence over critical issues formerly influenced exclusively by the government. Empowered internet users form new types of social movents that utilize the wishdom of crowds and fla...