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“THE TRUTH IS: NO ONLINE<br />

DATABASE WILL REPLACE<br />

YOUR DAILY NEWS-<br />

PAPER, NO CD-ROM CAN<br />

TAKE THE PLACE OF<br />

A COMPETENT TEACHER<br />

AND NO COMPUTER<br />

NETWORK WILL CHANGE<br />

THE WAY GOVERNMENT<br />

WORKS”<br />

—<br />

Clifford Stoll,<br />

(Newsweek, 1995) 73<br />

prioritises personal development in<br />

order to keep up.<br />

In the same way that Côté and<br />

Stoll struggled to accurately envision<br />

where technology would take humanity,<br />

the next five to 10 years are a time<br />

shrouded in mystery, brimming with the<br />

possibility of rapid advancements and<br />

new challenges to face. Marx herself<br />

is filled with optimism. “The future is<br />

going to be really, really interesting<br />

with regard to how we balance human<br />

interaction with technology and how<br />

the technology will support that overall<br />

experience,” she enthuses. “I can’t wait<br />

to see where the next five years take us,<br />

particularly in terms of communications.<br />

It would be nice to have holograms,”<br />

she says, somewhat wistfully.<br />

europe.businesschief.com

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