Subject: Who's Watching the Store?
Curt Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:21:10 EDT
To: cyber-soc@LISTSERV.READADP.COM, tpr-ne@mitvma.mit.edu, ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG, cosndisc@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: Who's Watching the Store? Message-Id: <19980701.152029.4279.1.cpriest@juno.com> From: cpriest@juno.com (Curt Priest) Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:21:10 EDT
W. Curtiss Priest, Ph.D.
Center for Information, Technology & Society
466 Pleasant Street
Melrose, MA 02176
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July 1, 1998
An Open Discussion
with Government, Foundations, Non-profits
and Grassroots Efforts
Information Highways, Economic Security, and Community
Public Issue #17:
"Who's Watching the Store?"
COMMENTARY BY W. Curtiss Priest
Intriqued by the headline for this newswire, "New-media Revolutionaries
To Stage A Boston 'Tech' Party," I was expecting to find a bunch of
communal folk ready to redesign the Internet into a fluid cyberspace of
heart-felt community.
Instead I find cocktails, jazz music, and entrepreneurs ready and
willing to make a buck.
I have nothing against that. I just am not sure I would have called
them "revolutionaries."
Regards,
Curtiss
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New-Media Revolutionaries to Stage a Boston `Tech` Party `The Next 20
Years` Summit Tells Where Technology is Taking Us
June 29, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- Just 124
years after history's most famous tea party, revolutionary rhetoric will
ring out once again in Boston. This time, though, the revolutionaries
will be technology pundits, futurists, and entrepreneurs gathering to
discuss the future of technology, society, and our economy over the
coming two decades. It's " The Next 20 Years" (TNTY) -- a new-media
summit produced by Bob Ayres in association with Ziff-Davis and brought
to you by Arthur Andersen. Other industry leaders including Microsoft
and Sun Microsystems are sponsors of the summit which will tour the
seven hottest U.S. new-media markets. The Boston stop, which follows
standing room-only events in Chicago and New York, will happen at the
Avalon Club, 15 Lansdowne Street, on July 14.
Each edition of TNTY features a different panel of experts, futurists,
and industry commentators who provide thought-provoking insight into the
future of technology. These discussions are followed by a cocktail
reception, live jazz, and exhibits that showcase emerging technologies
in an intimate atmosphere designed to foster communication between
industry leaders and start-up entrepreneurs.
Scheduled panelists for Boston are Dr. Michio Kaku, world-renowned
theoretical physicist and author of the national best-seller,
Hyperspace; Shanda Bahles, managing general partner of El Dorado
Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital partnership that invests in
early-stage, technology-based companies; and Jeffrey F. Rayport, an
associate professor at the Harvard Business School who studies the
impact of new information technologies on management and marketing
strategies. Dan Farber, who is the editorial director of ZDNet, will
moderate the panel.
Panel content will range from Bahles' prognosis on investment trends for
long-term money to Dr. Kaku's myriad predictions about a future we will
all be here to experience. Based on interviews conducted with 150 top
scientists, including many Nobel Laureates, Dr. Kaku can reliably
predict that:
* Your clothes and jewelry will monitor your heart and health. If you
have a heart attack, they will alert the police and ambulance.
* You will talk to your walls and appliances, and they will talk back to
you.
* The doctor will take a piece of your skin, analyze it, and give you a
CD that catalogs all 100,000 of your genes -- basically an owner's
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* Your tie clasp will have the power of a PC and cell phone.
Additional compelling predictions for 2020 will be discussed and debated
live at TNTY Boston. The local Boston investment community will also be
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"We've created a forum where the interactive-media, commerce, and design
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producer Bob Ayres, who modeled TNTY after a successful series of
new-media networking events that he created in San Francisco. "There's
still no substitute for the interchange of fresh ideas between original
thinkers in the same room. You never know what's going to emerge, and
it's always exciting."
About the Next 20 Years
An industry insider's sneak preview of the future, "The Next 20 Years "
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new technologies are continually changing our perspective on what is yet
to come. A limited number of exhibition slots are available. General
attendees may request an invitation to these exclusive events via The
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be webcast live to the public over ZDNet.
For more information about these events contact series producer Bob
Ayres at lastsat@aol.com or at 415-242-0700.
SOURCE Ziff-Davis
/CONTACT: Melissa Dennis of Alexander Communications, Inc., 415-923-1660,
ext. 163, or mdennis@alexandercom.com, for Ziff-Davis/ /Web site:
http://www.next20years.com/
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