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A vision for the future

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Name: David Biallowons

Bio: Psychologist

Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator

Topic: Communication

Headline: Emotional flat words

Nutshell: The ultralinked internet will give us a feeling of "this was done by many people before" and that there is "nothing new to discover."

Vision:

The future internet will give us a feeling of "this was done by many people before" and the feeling that there is nothing new to discover.
It will disable our ability to innovate.

The key to knowledge will change from knowing facts to knowing the good places to find facts. This will be harmful – that we have to experience less on our own to discover things.

This will diminish basic human abilities we take for granted now, like developing relationships with others, acting out good and bad emotions in a healthy way, imagining that people live and think in different ways than me.

Date Submitted: August 27, 2006

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