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A vision for the future

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Name: Peter F. Eder

From: Connecticut

Bio: Futurist focused on marketing & communications issues

Area of Expertise: Author/Editor/Journalist

Topic: Community/Culture

Headline: The age of interruption

Nutshell: We have entered an age of interruption - where our tools and behavior allow us to interrupt, and be interrupted.

Vision:

The time of fragmentation and segmentation, so prized by many marketers and so attractive to many consumers is creating a climate and environment with enormous, negative potential.

This interruption age will be counterproductive and significantly disruptive to continuity of thought, continuity of community, continuity of work.

Date Submitted: January 10, 2005

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