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“Until testing, bug fixing, user interfaces, usefulness, and basic application by subject-matter experts is given a higher priority than pure programmer skill, we are totally in danger of evolving into an out-of-control situation with autonomous technology.” — Elle Tracy, president and e-strategies consultant, The Results Group
“Before 2020 every newborn child in industrialized countries will be implanted with an RFID or similar chip. Ostensibly providing important personal and medical data, these may also be used for tracking and surveillance.” — Michael Dahan, professor, Sapir Academic College, Israel; Digital Jerusalem
“There is a strong likelihood that virtual reality will become less virtual and more reality for many. However, I see this as an addiction phenomenon that will likely inspire us to understand unexplored dimensions of being human.” — Barry Chudakov, principal, the Chudakov Company
“While area codes might still define geographic locations in 2020, reality codes may define virtual locations. Multiple personalities will become commonplace, and cyber-psychiatry will proliferate.” — Daniel Wang, principal, Roadmap Associates
“These technologies allow us to find cohorts that eventually will serve to decrease mass shared values and experiences. More than cultural fragmentation, it will aid a fragmentation of deeper levels of shared reality.” — Denzil Meyers, founder and president, Widgetwonder, Applied Improvisation Network
“A human’s desire to reinvent himself, live out his fantasies, overindulge, addiction will definitely increase. Whole communities/subcultures, which even today are a growing faction, will materialise. We may see a vast blurring of virtual/real reality with many participants living an in-effect secluded lifestyle. Only in the online world will they participate in any form of human interaction.” — Robert Eller, Concept Omega, Media & Verteiler, Celler Blitz
“Behavior is the function of learning, and the networks shall be the common source of learning, a common platform where all netizens stand equal.” — Alik Khanna, Smart Analyst Inc., a business employing financial analysts in India