Bitter struggle ahead for the net

Last Modified: 27 Mar 2008
By: Benjamin Cohen

The next 10 years of the internet future will be troubled.

10 years ago the dot.com boom began, eventually propelling the internet into almost every home in Britain.

Over the last couple of days More4 News has been looking at the internet's extraordinary impact on the our daily lives and the way we behave.

In the last of our dot.com decade reports, we look ahead to the next 10 years of the net - likely to be marked by a bitter struggle for control over what used to be a worldwide web.

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