Presuming apparently that the Mayan calendar does not foretell our intervening doom, a Google brain has proposed what the information super highway will look like in 2014. The future apparently includes the following:

• Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
• Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance - and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
• people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources.

So we are looking at a medium dominated by state monitored and perhaps state generated content in a context with reduced counter-point other than that of the mob. Because he does not suggest a democratic China, right? Is an underlying idea that the marketplace of ideas has become deflated to the point there is no value in the exchange, just in controlling the forum? I take some comfort in the fact that the comments are made along with a promise of convergence, hallmark of the point misser.