Experts and stakeholders, responding to the fourth “Future of the Internet” survey, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, largely agreed that the Internet will enhance — not degrade — our intelligence, countering a cover story for the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the summer of 2009.

The Internet will also change the functions of reading and writing and be built around still-unanticipated gadgetry and applications, they concluded.

The respondents were asked to consider the future of the Internet-connected world between now and 2020 and the likely innovation that will occur, as well as the Internet’s influence on the future of human intelligence.

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