Jimmy Wales: internet will 'change perception of privacy' Mr Wales, however, said that rather than users growing up and realising that they shouldn't put potentially embarrassing material online, a less "hypocritical" or conservative approach from employers might mean that users continued to be relaxed as they grew older. Presenting five predictions for the future of technology, Mr Wales also said that he would be "suspicious" of any attempts to work out global laws covering the internet. "It's very unlikely that we're going to get some sort of global governance," he said. And I'm not really sure I would trust a process between the world's leaders that's going to hammer out a new law for the internet. He added that he thought over time the internet would become an even larger "public force," with politicians increasingly forced to take notice of the collective opinions of web users. He said the protests against proposed American web legislation showed "ordinary people using the internet to organise themselves" in a way that presaged future campaigns. Mr Wales suggested that while the public acknowledged the need of the music and film industries to deploy sustainable business models unencumbered by piracy. But he also said "the public's needs for sharing and collaboration is crucial to society." He emphasised that the future of the web would be shaped by new users from the developing world, and said that the media was likely to retain its existing mixture of paid-for and free online content.