3. “ The free access which many young people have…has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth.” Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790
4. “ This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood……… Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result” Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909
19. 1978 Business Technology Conference in Phoenix Victor Vurpillat, Ph.D. “Conversations with the Future.” For the Christmas season in 1978 Mattel Electronics introduces a handheld electronic game “Football”.
29. Gartner Group, April 2007 By the end of 2011, 80% of active Internet users (and fortune 500 companies will have a “second life” …..not necessarily in Second Life Source: the Gartner Group, April 2007 Economic Impact Completely private virtual business worlds offering tools to conduct business and collaborate.
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51. Privacy Paradox An Oxymoron Young people will freely give up personal information to join social networks on the Internet. Afterwards, they are surprised when their parents read their journals. " There's a big difference between publicly available data and publicized data.” Dr. Dana Boyd, co-author a newly published book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media .
52. They could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals. All they needed was birthdates and city or state of birth. That helped them figure out the first three digits of each Social Security number, which the government had assigned by location. The remaining six digits were related to when the person applied for the number. The researchers used projections about those applications as well as other public data, like the Social Security numbers of dead people, and then ran repeated cycles of statistical correlation and inference to partly re-engineer the government’s number-assignment system.
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1997, internet connection was xmas present of the year The challenge lies in dealing with uncertainty - hence the attraction of using scenarios. Scenarios provide more 'headroom' in terms of being aware of what may unfold; how certain developments may interrelate with others and to free-think about what the future may be like. Paul Roberts, leader of the Vision 20/20 project Phases of development in internet Presence Interaction Transaction Transformation – borders between customers and organizations as well as between organizations disappear
Australian government The process of developing scenarios builds and enhances participant strategic thinking and decision-making skills under uncertainty, and provides the opportunity to discuss longer-term issues and: • challenge current assumptions about the future • develop new insights about the future in terms of the industry’s strategic environment • explore options • identify likely future skills base and resource needs for the regulatory environment and • provide leadership in thinking about the future. Gartner Group 2007 There is significant probability that, over time, market pressures will lead to a merging of current virtual worlds into a smaller number of open-sourced environments that support the free transfer of assets and avatars from one to another with the use of a single, universal client Business Week 2007 Even the earliest adopters of Second Life are turning elsewhere. In September, 2005, Wells Fargo was ahead of the corporate stampede into Second Life when it launched a 3D virtual environment, "Stagecoach Island," in Second Life to attract youthful, tech-savvy customers and teach them about banking. Now nearly 50 corporations use Second Life, with Royal Philips Electronics, Coca-Cola, and News Corp. among the latest. But Wells Fargo is gone. It pulled its Stagecoach Island out and opted to create its own world, a larger, stand-alone online universe that it can monitor more closely and customize.
People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American LifeProject. “College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, andthey scratch their heads at their younger siblings. It has sped up generational differences.”
Some viewers of Gilligan’s Island apparently took the show seriously in the 1960s. The U.S. Coast Guard received several telegrams from concerned citizens asking why they didn’t rescue the Minnow’s crew. This has been an excellent week. I have received four or five emails from London and Africa announcing that I have been selected to receive, from each of them, sums in eXcess of ten million dollars The quite remarkable fact seems to be that one fellow’s plane crash, another’s unexpected demise—apparently run over by a herd of elephants— a third’s cruel wife, have all resulted in me being just the right person on the planet to receive millions of dollars which was left in their estates. Not only that: Several lotteries have paid off this week as well, and, just like the poor African ministers who want to share their millions with me, the lottery companies are happy to send money as well. It seems all I have to do is let any one of these secret correspondents know a few details about my bank account and social security number and my life worries will be over.
Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones... ...The phone is designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill. Around the OK button on a typical flip phone are the up, down, left, right arrows. If you open the flip and accidentally press the up arrow key, you see that the phone starts to connect to the web. So you hit END right away. Well, too late. You will be charged $1.99 for that 0.02 kilobytes of data... ...Every month, the 87 million customers will accidentally hit that key a few times a month! That’s over $300 million per month in data revenue off a simple mistake!..
Web criminals are getting much more personal in their attacks, using social networking sites and other databases to make their story lines much more believable. Bryan Rutberg's daughter was among the first to notice something odd about her dad's Facebook page. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 21, she ran into his bedroom and asked why he'd changed his status to: “BRYAN IS IN URGENT NEED OF HELP!!!“ In Rutberg's case, criminals managed to steal his Facebook login password, steal his Facebook identity, and change his page to make it appear he was in trouble. Next, the criminals sent e-mails to dozens of friends, begging them for help.