Oh, to have had a crystal ball back in 1994 or 1995...Clifford Stoll's commentary on the future of the internet (The Internet? Bah!) in Newsweek (February 27, 1995) http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1 is mildly amusing when read today ("The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."). And as for how we're using the internet for establishing business relationships (yes, Clifford, there is human contact on the internet), Kevin O'Keefe starts one of his blogs with "Imagine 15 years ago as a practicing lawyer taking 30 minutes in the morning to skim news headlines from 400 or 500 reliable news... Then in the same 30 minutes you instantaneously shared 10 or 12 of those headlines, with a very short comment, with 1,000 people...Imagine if I told my law partners in 1994 I was going to start to do the above as a means of tasteful and effective client development?..." http://kevin.lexblog.com/2009/09/articles/social-networking-1/twitter-for-client-development-for-lawyers-being-an-intelligence-agent-as-good-as-it-gets/
We're getting crazy. Cows are flying. Any predictions on how we'll be connecting in a social media world in next 15 years, 15 months or 15 minutes?