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ow will the accelerating impact of
networked ICTs change our lives and our world?
Researchers from Elon University conduct interviews
with participants at major international gatherings,
asking them to share their expectations for the future.
The links below will lead you to audio and/or video
interview collections, including many quotable
predictions shared by people from all walks of life,
many of them at the top of their field.
– Thousands of Internet
stakeholders from the civil society, government,
business and technology sectors are gathering in Rio
de Janeiro for the 2007 Internet Governance
Forum, facilitated by the United Nations. This
portion of Imagining the Internet offers
interviews and written reports from the sessions,
taking place from Nov. 11-15. Click the link above to
access this content.
– Internet stakeholders from
18 nations discussed issues tied to the future of
networked communications in 27 video interviews and a
documentary film recorded at the first Internet
Governance Forum, hosted by the UN in Athens,
Greece, in the fall of 2006. The dozens of
interviews include talks with Vint Cerf of
ICANN and Google and Markus Kummer of the UN and
IGF. Click the link above to access the video
interviews and the documentary.
You can also listen to a brief audio teaser
segment of the IGF material:
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– Read and hear comments
from cutting-edge people talking about the future of
the 3D internet. This interdisciplinary gathering of
about 40 futurists, technology architects, academics,
journalists and entrepreneurs met at Stanford Research
Institute International to discuss synthetic worlds,
the geospatial web, net neutrality and much more. They
speak of the key issues and emerging advances they
see in our future. Among those interviewed are Esther
Dyson, Jamais Cascio, John Smart, Randy Farmer, Raph
Koster, Robert Scoble, Mike Liebhold, David Smith,
Sibley Verbeck, and Daniel James.
– Two short films and 22
interviews recorded at an international conference on
accelerating change, held at Stanford University
in September 2005. Interview
participants classified themselves as research
scientists, entrepreneurs or business leaders, authors
or journalists, and technology developers or
administrators. They speak of their hopes and fears for
the future. Among those interviewed are Vernor Vinge,
George Gilder, Douglas Engelbart, Patrick Lincoln,
Thomas Malone, and Alex Lightman. A hot topic of
discussion at the event was the possibility for a
technological "singularity."
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