Technology in 2008
The Economist makes three predictions for the new year: 1. Surfing will slow (as cyberspace become more crowded with traffic with higher bit rates from more people and many more machines and devices); 2. Surfing will detach (as spectrum freed by digital broadcasting is auctioned to providers of Internet services for wireless connectivity); and 3. Surfing—and everything else computer-related—will open (as the open commons movement gains support and impact).
http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/techview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912