2006 Ten-Year Forecast Perspectives [SR-945]

A decade of shapeshifting. The material and the digital worlds have traditionally struggled against each other, each working to overcome the constraints or mimic the affordances of the other. Now, pervasive technologies are bringing about a partnership between the material and digital, and the relationships among humans, machines, and environments are becoming more tightly interconnected and interdependent. Acybernomadic landscape is emerging, and with it emerges a critical question for society: Who are the indigenous people of this new landscape and how will they shape our social life and institutions?