Scholars and experts have speculated on the future of digital communications and society. Some give hopeful predictions and some others more bleak ones (see this).

What’s your own vision of the future of digital communications? What present aspects of digital communications would you like to see continue and even expand? What aspects would you like to see change and what would be required to enact those changes (policy, technologies, norms, ethics, behavior, etc)? Be specific and, if possible, give links to news on policy, technologies, norms etc that are currently in the making to achieve those goals.

This prompt is made general so that you can freely choose any of the topics we have discussed in class and think about their future. Make sure you discuss the specific problems and challenges related to your topic that we have discussed in class.

You are free to take the side of an optimist, pessimist, or pessoptimist. 🙂