Annalee Newitz, writing for io9:
You hear a lot about “next gen” science and technology, but not so much about will happen to human societies and cultures in the future. To fill the gap, we asked three futurists and one science fiction writer what social changes we should expect to see in the next century.
Perhaps the most intriguing is how “community” could come to resemble something more similar to internet forums than geographic locales.