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A vision for the future

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Name: april forman

From: New York

Bio: Internet user

Area of Expertise: Entrepreneur/Business Leader

Topic: Communication

Headline: Everyting in an Instant

Nutshell: No phone, no mailbox, no shopping mall, no school house - no need.

Vision:

There will be no need for the things we, as a society, consider to be essential today, in the internet of the future. Entry will become a form of identification – retina scan, lip print – or simply your touch on a pad that can read your vitals. Identity theft will be vertually impossible.

Visual interaction will personalize the web, auto translators will make international trade and personal communication a snap, and medical equipment that can get readings and send them directly to care providers will make travel become striclty a leisure time activity. "Vote from your living room" and "work at home" will become the norm.

I can’t wait.

Date Submitted: November 11, 2004

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