Lee Rainie will present findings from Pew Research Center’s report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025" to the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology law on March 30, 2016. The report presents the views of hundreds of “technology builders and analysts” on the question of whether Internet of Things will have widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public.

1. How will the Internet of Things
look by 2025?
Lee Rainie
Director, Internet, Science, and Technology Research
March 30, 2016
ABA: Science and Technology Law

3. Pew Research Center – Imagining the Internet
Center (Elon University)
November 25–January 13, 2014
2,551 respondents
19% research scientist
10% authors, editors, journalists
9% entrepreneurs, biz leader
8% tech developers
8% activists
7% futurists, consultants
2% legislators, lawyers
2% pioneers

4. Digital Life in 2025
The Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less
visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s
lives for good and ill

5. The rollout

6. BODIES (CYBORGS)
ME TRACKERS & DIAGNOSERS
INSTANT INTELLIGENCE ON
OTHERS & STUFF
REMOTE
CONTROLLERS
REMINDERS AND
ARCHIVING
EXTRA BRAIN LOBE & PAIR OF
HANDS
Implantable
s

7. HOMESHOMES
SMART SYSTEMS
FINDABLE ITEMS
WARNING
SERVICES
ANTICIPATORY &
MEDIA DELIVERY
SURFACES

8. COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITIES
MORE EFFICIENT &
CHEAPER SERVICES
TRANSPORTATION
& PARKING
POLLUTION
CROWDSOURCED
INTELLIGENCE

9. ENVIRONMENT
CLIMATE &
POLLUTION
MONITOR EARTH
SYSTEMS
TRACK WILDLIFE &
HABITAT
INFRASTRUCTURE
WARNING SYSTEMS &
WEAR AND TEAR

10. Bright sides

11. Theme 1) Information sharing over the Internet will
be effortlessly interwoven into daily life making
us smarter, safer, more efficient. ‘Computication’
involving ‘smart agents’ will be commonplace.

12. Theme 2) Artificial intelligence, augmented reality,
wearable devices, and big data will make people
more aware of their world and their own behavior
– which will especially aid in health care.

13. Theme 3) Social and business encounters will be shaped
by virtual reality and telepresence. Interfaces with data
and objects will change and become easier. Speech and
gesture interaction will matter more

14. Theme 4) The environment and structures themselves will
become ‘intelligent’ and expand our knowledge about
them – plus, enable their own ‘maintenance’ and ‘repairs’

15. Dark sides

16. Theme 1) Privacy will be more at risk and
something perhaps only the
privileged will enjoy.

17. Theme 2) The nature of work will change in
unprecedented ways as robots and artificial
intelligence assume greater roles in job
functions

18. Theme 3) Dangerous divides between haves
and have-nots may expand, resulting in
resentment and possible violence.

19. Theme 4) Abuses and abusers will ‘evolve and
scale.’ Human nature isn’t changing. Those pursuing
crime, laziness, bullying, stalking, stupidity,
pornography, and dirty tricks have new capacity to
make life miserable for others.

20. Theme 5) Humans and their organizations
may not respond quickly enough to
challenges presented by complex networks.

21. Fear
not