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A vision for the future

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Name: Mark kanner

From: Minnesota

Bio: internet user, physics teacher, aspiring physicist

Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator

Topic: Technology

Headline: Complete Integration

Nutshell: The future internet will enjoy complete integration with our daily lives, providing instant and portable information and support for everything we do.

Vision:

We will be able to carry the whole internet with us (via a Palm Piloty thing) and in general use it as an extension of our common knowledge – sorta like what has happened with calculators. Only instead of the ability to crunch a few numbers, we’ll be able to look up pretty much anything we want. I don’t think this vision is too far off.

Date Submitted: November 11, 2004

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