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A vision for the future This is one of nearly a thousand foresight statements shared by people from around the world. To return to the Voices of the People home page, click here. To do a refined search of the Voices of the People statements, click here. To submit your ideas to this online archive, look to the upper right corner of this page, click on "Share Your Prediction" and fill in the pop-up form. Name: dawn From: Wisconsin Bio: Avid internet user, studied the progress of media Area of Expertise: Advocate/Voice of the People Topic: Community/Culture Headline: No more cold snowball fights Nutshell: People will lessen their face-to-face interaction so much that most of their activities will be done online, impersonally. Vision: I am a member of Facebook, and in addition to posting pictures of yourself, sending messages to your "friends" and listing off aspects of you personality, the site is full of "interactive apps." Yesterday I received an invite to a "snowball fight" with my "friends." I could choose to throw "snowballs" at whoever I want, and get "hit" by others in return. I see activities like these hinting at how impersonal our relationships with our friends and relatives could become in using the Iinternet. We could still participate in "snowball fights" like we used to, only now we'll miss out on the rush of getting hit, running, dodging, and aiming at others. We participate instead with the click of a button. Date Submitted: 12/8/2008 |
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