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“Corporation-based cultural groupings may actually be one of the most destructive forces if not enough cultural, relational, and bottom-up social forces are built up. This does not detract from the prediction that a lot more people than today will have a good life through extensive networked collaboration.” — Alejandro Pisanty, CIO for UNAM (National University of Mexico); vice chairman of the board for ICANN; member of UN Working Group for Internet Governance; active in ISOC
“The information age needs the flow of ideas—the political form always follows the economic need. We will see a flattening of the nation-state in Western society. In Third World countries and networks of ethnic grouping such as the Arab world, we will see a desperate attempt to hold onto the framework as is.” — Amos Davidowitz, director of education, training, and special programs for Institute of World Affairs; Association for Progressive Education
“By becoming a valuable infrastructure, the Internet itself will become a target. For some, the motivation will be the Internet’s power (and impact); for others, it will just be a target to disrupt because of potential impact of such a disruption.” — Thomas Narten, IBM open-Internet standards development
“Random acts of senseless violence and destruction will continue and expand due to a feeling of 21st-century anomie, and an increasing sense of lack of individual control.” — Martin Kwapinski, senior content manager for FirstGov, the U.S. government’s official Web portal
“We really need a series of well-supported, lower-level watchdog organizations to ensure that ICTs [information and communications technologies] are not utilized by those in power to serve the interests of profit at the expense of human rights.” — Lynn Schofield Clark, director of Teens and the New Media @ Home Project, University of Colorado