Keynote speaker on global trends, author of 16 Futurist books - Patrick Dixon.
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Archive for historic interest:
The Year 2000 problem is gathering pace. By mid 1998, systems around the world were already beginning to fail - for example, operations were cancelled for sick people in Britain because the computer system declared that vital supplies were out of stock. They were just out of date - or rather the computer thought they were. With expiry dates in the next millennium, the computer decided they were at least 100 years old.
Read more: Cost of Year 2000 Computer Bugs - ARCHIVE
Future Travel Keynote Speaker:Auto, Rail, Aviation
Read two articles by Dr. Patrick Dixon featured in the Wall Street Journal in 1998
"A Guru's Vision of the Future"
"Business Travel: Firms are Zapping Costs" - Weekend Travel page Wall Street Journal Europe 12/12/98
Read more: The Future of Business Travel
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People tend to think of body suits and head gear when you talk about virtual reality. However, huge strides have been made in much simpler systems. Archive article 1998.
Read more: Virtual Reality
Future of Telcos Keynotes, Smartphones,Omnichannel
More than 500,000 people have already made telephone calls on the Internet, using microphones and loudspeakers installed as part of multimedia. Sound quality is variable and set-up can be hard. It is best for use on a pre-arranged basis.
Archive for historical interest Nov 1997
Read more: Internet voice phone - ARCHIVE 1997
Future of Telcos Keynotes, Smartphones,Omnichannel
Telecoms: It is all accelerating - making the doubling of computer power every 18 months look like solid lumps of unchanging rock. Take a mobile phone working in 2000 at 9.6k per sec. In less than two years they will be offering up to 2,000k per sec. That's a mega-jump!
Archive from Nov 1997 - for historic interest.
Read more: Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997