We are now living during a wave of social change, and we will not know how the Internet has affected society until we look back on it in the future. A great example of this: When Alexander Graham Bell obtained his patent for the telephone in 1875, no one could have foreseen that a lawyer from Texas could make a cellphone call from the Great Wall of China in 2005, but I did! In 2014, everyone expects to be able to make cellphone calls from just about anywhere on the planet.
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The Internet and the Web in 2025
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel April 7, 2014 06:01 AMWe are now living during a wave of social change, and we will not know how the Internet has affected society until we look back on it in the future. A great example of this: When Alexander Graham Bell obtained his patent for the telephone in 1875, no one could have foreseen that a lawyer from Texas could make a cellphone call from the Great Wall of China in 2005, but I did! In 2014, everyone expects to be able to make cellphone calls from just about anywhere on the planet.