The Big Picture: From Big Bang To Web Do youremember a fellow named Bran Ferrin (vice president of DisneyImagineering), speaking at ACORD's annual conference in 1998, andhis belief that the Internet was the equivalent of fire formankind? Did you chuckle?
The late Michael Dertuzos (director of the MIT Computer Lab)spoke to us in 1999 along the same lines. I recall him waltzingaround the stage while flailing his arms about, suggesting thatcyberspace was not “somewhere out there”, but something thatbecomes part of our everyday lives whether we realized it ornot.
Very often many people dont realize this, while others lackappreciation for the intensity of its potential influence.
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