Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020:

A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening” world.
Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents” proliferate. However, a significant 42% of survey …read the rest of this article

As I guess we all know now, the online world Second Life has a very real-world co-existence. Hundreds of people have been able to give up their day job to start shops and services in virtual stores, trading self-made artefacts and properties for real world cash, though the medium of Linden Dollars. More than 3100 residents were earning a net …read the rest of this article