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Afraid of the Future?
by Judy Bryan

3:00 a.m. Jul. 5, 2000 PDT

The year 2020 was the focus of a conference in San Francisco last week. Wired News reporter Chris Oakes saw the future there, and it was kind of scary: thinking machines and more information than one human can possibly know. He discusses the technologically induced, creative destruction underway.

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