Mobile devices will be the primary tool to connect to the internet in the year 2020 and voice-recognition and touch-screen interfaces will be much more prevalent, according to a new survey on the future of technology.
Artificial and virtual reality will also have become more embedded in everyday life, according to the survey of hundreds of Internet leaders, activists and analysts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The experts were asked in an online survey to predict advances and the role of technology in 2020. They agreed that advances in mobile phone technology would be among the most significant developments in the years to come.
'The mobile phone - now with significant computing power - is the primary internet connection and the only one for a majority of the people across the world, providing information in a portable, well-connected form at a relatively low price,' said the Pew survey 'Future of the Internet III.'
The experts did not think copyright protection would make major advances on the free-wheeling Internet in the years to come.
