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A vision for the future

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Name: Jim

Bio: Soldier

Area of Expertise: Entrepreneur/Business Leader

Topic: Technology

Headline: One, Simply One

Nutshell: It will be transparent, secure, legal.

Vision:

The web will become 100% reliable, traceable and will fade into the background as electricity has. References to the speed of the Internet and computers will be a thing of the past, since both will work faster than the mind can comprehend.

Semiconductor chips will become so cheap to produce that software will be imprinted on them – viruses will have no effect because software will become hardware.

When you buy a program, you will plug it in, so copyright laws will be impossible to skirt.

Date Submitted: November 12, 2004

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