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The mobile phone will become the primary means of Internet access across the globe, and DRM will be well on its way out the door by 2020, according to a survey of Internet leaders, activists, and analysts. Those are just two of the trends predicted by a panel of experts surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in order to get a feeling for where key influencers feel technology is going over the next decade or so. In addition to DRM and mobile phones, these experts also believe that we will be more hyperconnected than ever and that people will become more transparent, but that social tolerance will likely get worse.

Pew asked 578 Internet "activists, builders, and commentators" their opinions on social, political, and economic life in the year 2020, in addition to 618 stakeholders, for a total of 1,196 participants.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081215-the-internet-of-2020-more-cellphones-intolerance-less-drm.html