Read our 2014 predictions about the future of virtual reality, internet control, extreme volunteering and more. Every year, our team of in-house experts predicts what will be big over the next 12 months.This year we set out our case for why 2014 will be the year we're finally delivered the virtual reality experience we were promised two decades ago, the US will lose technological control of the Internet, communities will start crowdsourcing their own political representatives and we’ll be introduced to the concept of extreme volunteering – plus 10 more predictions spanning energy, tech, health, data, impact investment and social policy.