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New Paradigms and Parallels

All events are in RAND's North Conference Facility (NCF) except the Working Group discussions. Directions to the NCF will be furnished.

Thursday, October 5, 2000

7:30 Continental Breakfast

8:00 Welcome and Introduction
8:30 The Future of Any-to-Many Communications
  - Bob Anderson, RAND

9:00 Historical Analogies as a Means of Looking Into the Future
  - Jim Dewar, RAND
9:30 Information Cultures
  - Wayne Wiegand, U. of Wisconsin
10:00 Introduction to Working Groups
10:15 Working Groups - Parallels between effects on:
  - politics/government/law
  - society/culture/religion
  - business/finance/economy
  - science/technology
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Working Groups
3:30 Plenary Session (short)
4:30 Break
5:30 Social Hour
6:30 Dinner (Main Conference Room)

Friday, October 6, 2000

7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 Working Groups
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Plenary session
  - politics/government/law
  - society/culture/religion
  - business/finance/economy
  - science/technology
3:00 General Discussion
4:00 End

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