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The gloomy future of the Internet: inequality and unfreedom The future is here  To give forecasts is a thankless task. However, in order to assess the prospects that are waiting for "ours" with you Internet in the near future, you do not need to look too far. We want to imagine the future of the Internet, which will certainly give all who want a unified opportunity to access services and content, but this will most likely never happen. Inequality The Internet is a global network , right? However, most of the traffic goes through private networks of mega-corporations. Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are deploying their content delivery networks (CDN) at such a rate that in 5 years, they will account for 70% of all traffic. The main reason for this situation is the popularity of streaming video. According to Cisco, by 2020, 90% of all Internet traffic will fall on video. This is a very realistic forecast, because in 2006, video accounted for only 12% of traffic