Welcome to the Pew Research Center 2016 Future of the Internet Survey
Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your thoughts tied to five important questions about how internet trends might evolve in the next 10 years. You will be given the option to remain completely anonymous, or you can take credit by name for any or all of your answers. The questions will invite you to consider the likely future of: the tone of social discourse online, education innovation for future skills, the opportunities and challenges of the Internet of Things and algorithm-based everything, and trust in online interaction. There are also a few general demographic questions we gather to use only for statistical purposes.
For all these questions, please give your best assessment of where you expect we will be in the next decade. This may not be the future you would prefer – but please select the future you expect is most likely. You will be able to elaborate on your hopes for the future in your written answers….
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