Four major points to be cautious about the Internet in the next decade

According to foreign media reports, which is the biggest threat to the Internet? In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Internet, the Pew Research Center brings thousands of thinkers, businessmen, analysts and other respected tech followers together to talk about their outlook for the Internet over the next decade and what are the most worrisome issues. Many people are optimistic about the development of the Internet, but also pointed out that the risk of innovation can not be ignored.

Here are four of the top threats mentioned in Pew's report and some of the observations taken from the report:

Threat 1: State intervention

"The actions of the state to maintain security and political control will further aggravate the blockade, blockade, division and Balkanization of the Internet."

Balkanization is already happening. The totalitarian state is especially obvious. Unfortunately, countries in the West that should have been the beacon of democracy often prove that they too violate the basic norms.

- David Allen, a scholar who studies the development of global Internet governance.

Surveillance ... light means to suppress communications, while promoting industrial espionage. It has little to do with national security.

- EU Retired Officer, Board Member of EURid.eu Christopher Wilkinson.

Threat 2: Loss of trust

"When the government and corporate surveillance events are exposed, people's trust will cease to exist, and surveillance will likely intensify in the future."

Due to the government issue (the international influence caused by NSA events), data sharing will present a serious problem of geographical dispersion. Control over the next few years will be the theme.

- Microsoft research scientist Danah Boyd.

"We're going to enter a relatively simple world, but excessive surveillance, data collection and privacy violations jeopardize the determination of the world's citizens to adopt global innovations."

- Jari Arkko, Internet expert at Ericsson and chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

The main threat to sharing lies with the sharers themselves.

- Alf Rehn, Dean, School of Management and Organizations, Ebola University, Finland.

Threat 3: The company controls the internet

"Business pressures affect everything from Internet architecture to the flow of information and will endanger the open architecture of online life."

The extension of the copyright clause will reduce the amount of information that can be shared. Increasingly, patent gangsters will slow down industry growth, forcing companies to spend more energy bypassing certain patented technologies and preventing them from continuing to push the technology forward.

- Jeremy Epstein, Sr. Computer Scientist, Stanford National Institute.

Operators actually want to move the television to the web to define the network in terms of the TV industry: as a place where you purchase content ... this is by far the single biggest threat to online information sharing because it undermines network support owners And everything distributed by multiple systems, the entire system is biased toward several vertically integrated "content" industries.

- Doc Searls, ProjectVRM director at the Berkman Internet and Social Research Center.

Threat 4: The reaction of information overload

"Efforts to address the issue of over-information (TMI) may not only help but will prevent content sharing."

"If the community continues to place greater emphasis on equipment and network connectivity (containers and pipelines) than content, even if the accessibility of content is enhanced, it will not help improve the lives of individuals or societies. People across the globe will be more likely to share more Much more ... The challenge is identifying good and bad. "

- Michael Starks, Information Science Specialist.

Although pressure on information sharing is limited (both government and traditional content sources), the trend of making information more accessible to more places, more being digested, refined and redistributed is likely to continue through 2025 ... The largest The challenge is likely to be to find meaningful content when needed.

- Ericsson engineer Joel Halpern.

Despite such threats on the Internet, many people are still optimistic.

Social norms will change to address the potential hazards of online social interactions ... The accessibility of the Internet will become much stronger than it is today. It is likely that artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies will make the Internet far more useful than it is today.

- Google vice president, co-inventor of internet protocol Vint Cerf.

I do not know which force - censorship or surveillance - will further jeopardize the freedom of the internet. Both come from the government. However, I still hope technologists and hackers can stay ahead of the slow government and deprive the latter of their past interests.

Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the State University of New York.

By 2025, everyone on the planet will have access to the Internet. The collision of ideas through the communal network will spawn explosive innovations and creativity. We are on the brink of an era of collaboration tools. By 2025, we should have 8.1 billion people online. Imagine the spectacle of how many billion people share ideas and collaborate. I hope I can live to that time, I want to experience this period will be called the era of collaboration.