Mobile Phones Will Be Main Point of Access to The Internet in 2020

A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project provides the mobile phone will be the main Internet access point for most consumers tech. The report also states that the line between work and personal life, more and more blurred, as technologies such as touch screen interfaces and speech recognition will become more common in 2020.

The 1200 study tech-savvy participants on what they expect from the future. Participants predicted that the phone will be offered as part of a set of universal standards and protocols accepted by most international operators, to make a reasonable effort to move part of the world. For small and medium enterprises (SME) owners, the survey results suggest that more flexible internationally mobile infrastructure will make international transactions and to facilitate growth, while the prevalence of the Internet on mobile devices and smart phones (which provides for the investigation have computing power in 2020) will allow small business owners access to their business almost anywhere and anytime.

In addition, the survey reveals that, outside the officially planned activities, work and play will be fully integrated in most workers' lives. Pew estimates that this potential would be a net positive future for the people, that the communication flexibility allows them to mix personal and professional, where they are when called upon to execute them, either from their homes , gym, shopping center, a library, and perhaps even their joint meeting space, which could exist in a new format for virtual reality. A majority of experts of respondents (56 percent) agreed with the statement that in 2020 "a few lines (is) to divide the professional staff time, and that's OK."

Not all those involved agree, however. "The result May be longer, less effective and hours of work more stressful family life," says Victoria participating Nash, Director of Graduate Studies and Policy and Research, the Oxford Internet Institute.