Steven Pemberton: ‘Internet: the next 35 years’

The internet in Europe is 35 years old this year. For 50 years after the printing press was invented, books imitated manuscripts, before finally becoming what we now understand as books. In a similar way, the internet is still imitating pre-internet media: it could be described as paper documents without the paper; only the paper has been digitised away. So what should the internet *really* be like, and can we expect it to emerge in the next 35 years?