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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: Jim Blythe From: California Bio: Computer science PhD researcher, had one of the first 100 web home pages Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator Topic: Community/Culture Headline: Ubiquitous network will change every aspect of our lives Nutshell: With wimax and wearable computing, a digital companion will have global information wherever we go. Vision: Already the web has changed the way we go about so many things, but the changes with a ubiquitous web will be much larger. Large groups will routinely self-organize meetings, traffic, entertainment, information exchange. Geographic differences will have reduced relevance, governance will be transformed. The technology is already here. Date Submitted: 11/10/2004 |
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