I think that technology is moving into a new era. My paper looks at the future of the Internet, as mobile technology revolutionises machine to machine communications, health care and the development of democracy, albeit in its very early stages. Robot technology for example is beginning to take shape. Our relationships with data, for good or bad, is causing social and economic change at a staggering rate. On the one hand it has created Internet giants, like Google, who grow increasingly controlling and manipulative of peoples online lives, while at the same time providing stunning technology and access to information, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Channel 4, has recently launched what it called a Data Baby, to monitor the power and influence of Internet companies, who are dominating and using our data, to sell us things, spy on us and direct us to websites of companies that have paid Google to favour them in searches: Meet Rebecca Taylor: Robot techno...