Final session of the day. Futurist from Da Vinci Institute – Attibuted the rise of the internet to the breakup of AT&T from Judge Green.
- Wireless Electricity: MIT project has prototype that will power a lightbulb
- WiMax Cars: Internet Radio, Traffic Alerts, Online Games, Information Hub
- Hyperlocal Future: Opportunities and an awareness of them will be focused and enable more enriched experiences.
- Keyboards will disappear, Displays will become 3D and interactive
- Computers will have personalities
- Search: Attributes for search will expand. Search by smell, taste, texture, reflectivity, vibration, & gravity
- CourseWare Vacuum: Open Education Movement to promote learning so that it may catch up to the information glut. MIT has 1400 classes online for free. Encouraging others to join the party.
- Traditional Education: Learning camps with specific applied knowledge vs. traditional book education. Smarter people.
- The marketing moment will combine with the buying moment. Speed sells. Television of the future. See a pizza commercial and it’s delivered in 30 seconds
- Fractal transations: Watch out music industry. This will liberate the artists from the distributors.
- Global systems: Global tax codes, currency, accounting standards
- Internet creating borderless economies. Countries will lose control of their citizens. Flying cars.
- Virtual countries. No land involved. Membership voluntary. Techno Nation State. Control over an economic domain.
- Empire of One: Outsoure everything. Advantage is eliminate HR problems. Freedom to travel. Control your own destiny. People dropping out of the corporate world. 45 million Americans working from home.
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