The benefits of the Internet and social networking technologies will
far outweigh the negatives by the year 2020, according to a new
study released by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American
Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center. The
study surveyed 895 technology leaders and critics, with 85 percent of
the respondents saying that the Internet will be a positive social tool
in their lives in the next 10 years. Fourteen percent disagreed with
that statement.
Those who noted the positive effects cited how the Internet and social networking technologies have reduce the cost of communication.
"They said "geography" is no longer an obstacle to making and maintaining connections; some noted that internet-based communications removes previously perceived constraints of "space" and not just "place," the report noted.
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Author: John Cook
