The New Corporate Culture

In the old days, we literally walked away from our work when we left the office. Now we have the opportunity of working from anywhere at anytime. Has technology really liberated us? It looks like the joke is on us.

Ways that Products are Made and Sold

Let's see how Microsoft does it from start to finish. Could there be anything easier? Remember, in a digital world, it costs almost the same to create 10,000 copies of a software program as it does a single one. What is the business model in determining pricing?

Legal Eagles

The Justice Department's anti-trust case with Microsoft is forcing us to re-define our terms? Is the government correct in its attempt to foster competition? How do you deal with such an incredibly successful company that means so much to the vibrancy of the American economy? Should justice different in the digital world? Are the old-style antitrust laws outdated for our fast moving digital age? Do we change the rules?

Role of pornography in terms of Business on the Internet

Pornography revolutionized the video industry. It was the driving force behind the creation of distribution channels. It created a new billion-dollar business. Blockbuster Video would not be here today if it weren't for Marilyn Chambers and John Holmes. E-commerce powerhouses would not be as far along if it weren't for the technological advances developed by porno web sites that led the way.

Online Business and Minorities

Nobody knows what you look like when you're online. We will present an economic model that prizes knowledge and quality. Who cares whether you are wearing a skirt, sitting in a wheelchair, or speaking with a discernable accent as long as the price is right and you deliver on your word?

ANIMATION: Cartoon Animation illustrating the paragraph above.

The Third World and Technology

Third World countries will probably see the fastest change in their economies. Digital technology can be introduced almost overnight. Witness how cell phone technology helped countries in Africa and Asia suddenly have the most sophisticated and advanced telecommunications systems in the world. Will technological advances drive democracy and reform? Show 4: Play Space and Learn Space

Health, education, recreation, and entertainment.

SCENE: Cleese Tries to once again voice activate his Computer Cleese is next to his computer. He is about to boot up his computer when he starts to sneeze.

CLEESE
Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I have a bit of a cold. Nothing serious.

His voice is gone to hell.

He addresses his computer.

Good day.

There is no response.

Turn on I said.

You're embarrassing me.
Now please turn your bloody self on.

COMPUTER
Entry denied. Illegal voice access.

Cleese restrains himself from attacking the computer.

Think I'll take some cold medicine.

How Digital Technology has Changed Entertainment (Star Wars)

We intend to invite George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron as guests. Digital innovation has created stunning effects.

Animated films that used to take six years to draw cells now take a few months to complete thanks to powerful 3-D computer animation.

Have these effects become so commonplace they have become boring? Are movies really better or busier than ever?

The Importance of Video Games

There's something to be said for the role of video games in the Digital Revolution. A generation of children grew up investing not just their imaginations, but their hand-eye coordination in the abstract concepts offered by PacMan, Asteroids, and Space Invaders. Although this may seem trivial - what role can a child's game play in what is arguably the most important philosophical shift since the Industrial Revolution - video games helped mold the way children viewed and interacted with the world. The Digital Revolution is marked by the contributions of increasingly young people, and those who played video games in the 70's and 80's have gone on to create the technologies of today.

Suspension of Disbelief and Digital Technology

The magic of art is its ability to promote the suspension of disbelief. How has video games changed the landscape? Let's go inside the world of Myst.

Delivery systems (DVD, satellite, Internet)

What is the impact of these new delivery systems, including high-speed broadband Internet transmission and satellite deliver of feature films from Hollywood Studios to theaters around the world? Will piracy be better controlled through digital branding?

Creation and Dissemination of Art and Music

There are cutting-edge pioneers out there and it would be fun to showcase them. MP3 and the Napster community is changing the way music is distributed.

Movie web sites are proliferating. New forms of film are being created as a result of the web.

Christies and Sotheby's have online partnerships selling serious art.

Are any of the new web 'zines or RealAudio soap operas worth our time?

What about the effects of distributing pornography on the web? Can it be filtered with new technologies?

Are new digital art forms being developed?

Distance Learning

The world is going through dramatic changes driven by the need to perform at even higher levels of technological sophistication. Understanding that access to education and information is the key to succeeding in this "anytime, anywhere environment"

In the United States, a veritable Marshall Plan/Manhattan Project is needed to avoid a meltdown in the teaching of math and science. The creation of an online and digital video library of K-12 curriculum courseware, as well as accompanying teacher-training courseware, will go a long way towards solving the learning crisis in our schools.

Learning will be anywhere there is a VCR, a computer and an Internet connection including homes, schools, libraries, community centers, hospitals and churches. It will reach out to those students with learning and physical disabilities.

A recent study confirms the effectiveness of teaching via the Internet and multimedia. "Technology didn't magically get the kids to learn more without effort," according to Dave McArthur, a Rand Corp. computer scientist. "Rather, the technology motivated them to work harder and longer, and to talk to their peers -- always a good way to promote learning."

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