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A vision for the future

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Name: Joel Pulliam

From: Virginia

Bio: Exec at AOL and MCI for over a decade

Area of Expertise: Entrepreneur/Business Leader

Topic: Communication

Headline: Any to Any

Nutshell: Within 10 years, you will be able to get any content on any device anywhere.

Vision:

We’re moving from silos of content that are viewed/enjoyed by a specific "client" (e.g., I can view my spreadsheet on my computer or I can look at my recently dialed phone numbers on my cell phone) to one personal, highly guarded corpus of content made available wherever, whenever, on whatever "client" I want (e.g., my music–residing on my PC–will be available via my cell phone that I can plug into my buddy’s stereo so the whole party can enjoy).

The implications are (at least) twofold:

1) I don’t need to rent (due to inconvenience) when I can own.

2) I need to protect and preserve my corpus.

Date Submitted: February 1, 2005

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