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The Future of the Internet and American Life 2008 -
Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012
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By Declan McCullagh, CNET – Sun Dec 14, 10:00 pm ET
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Step aside, keyboards, laptops, and 9-to-5 jobs. A survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists, and technologists released Sunday speculates that by 2012, those quaint relics of 20th century life will fade away.
It's not a formal survey of the sort that, say, political pollsters use. Nor are computer journalists especially known for their prognosticative abilities. Still, the Pew Internet and American Life Project hopes the effort will provide a glimpse of the best current thinking about how online life will evolve in the next decade or so.