Time has an conversation on near-future innovation with Mark Derry, Tim O'Reilly, Malcolm Gladwell, Clay Shirky, Esther Dyson, and Moby. Apart from predictions, they have some useful reviews of where futurists predicted we'd be today.
[Derry:] I'm fascinated by this idea that JetBlue could be transformative. Weren't we supposed to be celebrating the death of geography right about now? According to the last wave of techno-hype, in the newtopian '90s, we were supposed to be swirling clouds of data bits, teleporting from one point to another through fiber-optic cables.
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Posted by johndanseven at October 18, 2005 12:42 PM