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"Technology does not drive change at all. Technology merely enables change. It's our collective cultural response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change."

Paul Saffo is Director at Institute for the Future, a management consulting foundation. Providing long-range planning and forecasting services to Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, Paul is a specialist in long-term social and commercial impacts of new information technologies.

Paul Saffo also contributes an occasional column to Wired, and his essays on information and media trends have appeared in a variety of publications including PC Computing Magazine, Infoworld Magazine, MacWeek, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and Fortune Magazine. Paul remarked that as commentator, his task was an easy one considering the credits each artist had attained.

Links and Articles

The Real Y2K Bug - Salon essay by Paul Saffo.

DisinteREmediation - Beware of conventional wisdom.

Sensors - The next wave of infotech innovation.

Waiting for the Millennium - An essay by Paul Saffo.

The Revolutionaries - An interview with Paul Saffo.

Hotwired Interview

Educom Review - Paul Saffo interview, Betting on "Strong Opinions Weakly Held"

The Future of Future - at Hotwired

Frontline - High Stakes in Cyberspace

The biotech future: Paul Saffo - American futurist Paul Saffo warned the World Economic Forum the revolution in biotechnology will make the digital revolution seem mild by comparison. He talks with Tony Jones of LATELINE and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Paul Saffo on dot.com Greed and Giving - Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, comments on the charitable efforts of companies that grew from high-tech start-ups to wealthy public organizations. A CNN presentation.

FastCompany.com - A brief article about Paul Saffo.

The Next 20 Years Conference - Mr. Saffo's presentation at the TNTY 2002 Conference.

It's the Context, Stupid - In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view is the most valuable resource.

Business 2.0 - "Even the most expected of futures arrives late--and in completely unexpected ways."

The Place of Originality is in the Information Age - This essay is based on a Mr. Saffo presented at the 1991 Aspen Design conference.

Paul Saffo: We're Shifting Towards Biotechnology - The year 2004? That's not too far out to predict, says the widely publicized author, whose personal hope is that the Internet will someday soon provide a voice for the voiceless.

Saffo: Leave the Middleman Alone - Technology forecaster Paul Saffo mixed it up with the business crowd at the World Wide Web 7 conference, asserting that the conventional view of how the Web is changing commerce is flat-out wrong.

The End of Government Monopoly - An interview by Visions about government technology.

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