December 5 , 2006 General Meeting topic preview:
The Future of the Internet

Back by popular demand, John Patrick will again be DACS’ featured speaker this December, as he has been for the half dozen or so years.

John Patrick, author of Net Attitude and one of the leading Internet visionaries, believes the rapid evolution of the Internet is about to make today's Internet seem primitive. His presentation and technology demonstrations will bring to life John's vision of the technological and societal changes underway and provide examples of how businesses and institutions of all kinds can use the Internet to become on demand. John will provide an exciting vision about the power and the potential of the Internet and how it will provide significant advances in order to meet the increasing expectations of an on demand world. John will discuss the key opportunities that are just beginning to surface, and the potential limitations that may stand in the way. More importantly, he will offer a visionary glimpse of the future beyond the Internet as we know it.

John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-eight years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking.

John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the Internet Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a member of the Engineering Advisory Board at Lehigh University. John has been a business and technology advisor to numerous companies. He is a member of the board of directors of Opera Software ASA, Jupitermedia Corporation, Knovel Corporation and our own Danbury Health Systems, Inc. His book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it.

Prepare to be entertained, informed and gain an insight into where the Internet is going over the next several years. Also, bring your questions for John since there will be time to get them all answered.

This is a must see presentation for all members and guests and will put the Internet into perspective on how it does and will effect our daily lives and how the Internet is likely to affect us in the future as more and more existing activities go online and become commonplace, and the new capabilities that will be provided in the future.

DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a general question and answer period (Ask DACS) and a discussion of what’s new in technology followed by a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00.

As a reminder, our General Meetings are free and open to the public so invite anyone you know who would be interested in this topic.

 

 
 
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