Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The future of networking (27 Jul 2004) I personally believe that the ability to deliver information that's matched to factors like interests, geography or proximity will be a bigger service than advertising. When we are tourists in another city, for example, we welcome information about the places around us. If we are interested in art, we may want to see the paintings produced by the chap living in the house we are walking past. Similarly, if we were sitting opposite someone on the train who looks interesting, our digital bubbles could interact to exchange material. Article URL: http://www.btexact.com/publications/futurology?doc=43011 Read 23 more articles from British Telecom sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: An empirical study of the effect of information technology expenditures on student achievement     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy