The Future of the Internet with Martha Lane Fox

Businesswoman, dot-com entrepreneur and campaigner Baroness Lane Fox had to battle in the late 1990s to convince people that the internet was going to exist at all. Today, we can hardly imagine our lives without it - or without the anxieties that accompany its use. We have an internet that enables interference in democratic processes; we have an internet that allows a young person to be radicalised from their bedroom; we have an internet that facilitates identity theft overnight. Indeed, we now have not one internet, but many: a splintering kaleidoscope of different national internets in competition with those of other states, often hostile. In our second video for The Futureverse, Baroness Lane Fox imagines a future in which these concerns have been stripped away; one in which we exist more seamlessly with internet technologies and, in turn, we have harnessed their power to solve the world’s biggest problems and propel us far beyond our known universe.

This video was made as part of The Futureverse series, in partnership with Y TREE.

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