“The greatest social change between now and 2025 will be to raise the educational standards for people regardless of their locale. The Internet
has already proven to be a great educational tool … . Wikipedia allows individuals to share their collective wisdom … . Also the increased use
of Massive Open Online Courses will allow brilliant educators to share their messages to global audiences.”
We are now living during a wave of social change, and we will not know how the Internet has affected society until we look back on it in the future. A great example of this: When Alexander Graham Bell obtained his patent for the telephone in 1875, no one could have foreseen that a lawyer from Texas could make a cellphone call from the Great Wall of China in 2005, but I did!
In 2014, everyone expects to be able to make cellphone calls from just about anywhere on the planet.