The Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. The Tomorrowland pavilion at Disneyland. The Jetsons’ push-button home. When people once imagined the future of technology, the promise was all bright and sparkly, mostly comfort and convenience. Smarter machines would make a better mankind. But when the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a Washington think tank, surveyed hundreds of developers and futurists about their expectations for the Internet in the year 2020, their visions were both fascinating and foreboding.
