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PROGRAM

Tentative Program, Subject to Changes
Thursday October 18, 2001

5:30 - 8:00   OPENING RECEPTION AT THE CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Meet the Speakers
Pre-Conference Check-In

Friday October 19, 2001
9:00 - 10:00  

Keynote Address: Online, Everywhere, All the Time

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John Naisbitt
Moderator: John Benditt

10:00 - 10:30   COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - NOON  

Human Relationships and the Internet

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The end of "dead time"
Love the Internet way
Family matters
Generation to Generation, Generation vs. Generation
A world without strangers
Morality in an electronic world
Sissela Bok, Rush Kidder
Moderator: Chris Shipley

NOON - 1:30   LUNCH

1:30 - 3:00   The Post-Institutional World

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The Politician in Your Living Room
How will Internet II change our institutions?
Can nation states survive the Internet II? Should they?
New nexus' of power
Governor Angus King, Eli Noam
Moderator: Bill Taylor

3:00 - 3:30   COFFEE BREAK

3:30 - 5:00   Human Rights in the Internet Age

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What is privacy in the 21st century?
What can we do to keep what privacy we have?
What are the consequences of losing our privacy?
Can we have both privacy and free speech online?
Are privacy, free speech and security compatible?
Simson Garfinkel, Nadine Strossen
Moderator: Linda McCarthy

5:30 - 8:00   DINNER AND SCHMOOZING AT OWLS HEAD

Saturday October 20, 2001
9:00 - 10:00   The Games We Play

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It's not a game, it's a simulation
The business of serious play
Creativity and play
Game everyone - literally - plays
Michael Schrage
Moderator: Dan Gillmor

10:00 - 10:30   COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - Noon   Internet Access for Human Beings

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What kind of technology do people really want?
Why must technology seem so complex?
How can we make technology adjust to people, instead of vice versa?
Can technology be made invisible, yet still effective?
Can the technologically non-elite particpate fully?
Marc Canter, Josephine Green, Donald Norman
Moderator: Steve Larsen

Noon - 1:30   LUNCH

1:30 - 3:00   When Everyone Goes Mobile

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How will it change our lives?
When will it reach critical mass?
Who will control wireless carriers?
Who will own the content?
Wide area vs. local, PCs vs. PDAs
John Sculley, Carl Yankowski
Moderator: Walt Mossberg

3:00 - 4:00   Ice Cream Social

4:00 - 5:30   Vitual Reality as an Overlay on the Real World

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How the Internet will change what it means to walk around town
A pilot in every palm and a world in every pilot
Human beings and their bots
Blurring the line between real and virtual
The power of Instant Messaging
Risto Linturi, Linda Stone
Moderator: Scott Kirsner

5:30 - 8:00   DINNER BREAK

8:00 - 9:30   Jamming on the Internet: Music for the Connected

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Willy Henshall
Introducer: John Perry Barlow

Sunday October 21, 2001
9:00 - 10:00  

The Hive Mind

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Communities of culture, communities of interest, communities of convenience
Distributed cognition vs. individual brilliance
What happens when everyone can access all human knowledge instantly?
How does this change society - and humankind?
Darwin and the Interent
John Perry Barlow
Introducer: Harvey Ardman

10:00 - 10:30   COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 11:30  

Summing Up

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Bob Metcalfe


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