About Imagining the InternetPosted by jesuslewis on August 8th, 2017 The Imagining the Internet Center's mission is to explore and provide insights into emerging network innovations, global development, dynamics, diffusion and governance. Its research holds a mirror to humanity's use of communications technologies, informs policy development, exposes potential futures and provides a historic record. It works to illuminate issues in order to serve the greater good, making its work public, free and open. This history-and-forecast site's design reflects its times - pages are set in templates designed at the time the content was created. Because of this, you will see varied looks to the site. The Imagining the Internet Center sponsors work that brings people together to share their visions for the future of communications and the future of the world. Find out more by viewing the 5-minute video below... The center is a network of Elon University faculty, students, staff, alumni, advisers and friends working to identify, explore and engage with the challenges and opportunities of evolving communications forms and issues. They investigate the tangible and potential pros and cons of new-media channels through active research. Among the spectrum of issues addressed are power, politics, privacy, property, augmented and virtual reality, control and the rapid changes spurred by accelerating technology. What You Will Find on This Award-Winning Site The Elon University site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast is a multi-section resource containing thousands of pages. It exposes future possibilities while simultaneously providing a peek back at the past. In it, you will find the words of thousands of people from every corner of the world, from today and from yesterday, making thousands of predictive pronouncements about the future of humankind. This resource features special explanatory sections on the future and past development of communications networks (Time Capsule: Forward 150/Back 150). For More Details Lean Management Video Like it? Share it!More by this author |