Imagining the Internet: Hopes and Fears for the Future
Channel: Imagining the Digital Future Center
Date: 2013-04-05

The Imagining the Internet Center is based at Elon University. Its mission is to explore and provide insights into emerging network innovations, global development, dynamics, diffusion and governance. Its research holds a mirror to humanity's use of communications technologies, informs policy development, exposes potential futures and provides a historic record. It works to illuminate issues in order to serve the greater good, making its work public, free and open. It investigates the tangible and potential pros and cons of new-media channels through active research. Among the spectrum of issues addressed are power, politics, privacy, property, augmented and virtual reality, control and the evolution of humanity in an age of accelerating technological change. The Imagining the Internet Center sponsors work that brings people together to share their visions for the future of communications and the future of the world. The contact for connection is imagine [at] elon [dot] edu.