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Like the real world, the Net will be increasingly international and decreasingly reliant on English. It will be wrapped in a Chinese kung fu outfit, intoned in an Indian accent, oozing Brazilian sex appeal.
This in Wired 14.12: Posts is Sterling's analysis of a Pew survey of senior opinion formers and futurists on where the net goes from here. Great reading. The best bit about being a futurist is that no one ever comes back ten years later and tells you that you were wrong.