Media and Technology

 From Threat To OpportunityThe Internet has reached the "web 2.0" generation in which users collaborate and interact. Has this been the end of the story? Not likely. Networks will soon progress to ultra-broadband capacity, and with it to new content styles, production models, and industry structure. It is therefore time to think ahead. What will "web 3.0" look like?Some questions addressed at this Conference were:

CITI Director Raul Katz, quoted in Fortune.com

A few weeks ago, President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law. It included $7.2bn for broadband infrastructure upgrade, plus some money for telemedicine and smart grids to stimulate applications. The money unleashed a feeding frenzy.

The two-day event brought together leaders in business, technology, media and marketing to discuss how technology and innovation are transforming the ways that companies build and sustain brands.

With the American electoral season now in high gear, the question for high technology oriented voters is how to decode the candidates.

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Richard Zannino, former CEO of Dow Jones & Company, is Columbia Business School’s newest executive in residence.

With the US electoral campaign heating up, one of the main high-tech issues will be the state of high-speed internet in America. A campaign discussion on this subject could be much deeper and more meaningful. It should be about America??s future information economy, about the interplay of private and public initiatives, about a diverse media landscape and about its role as an exporter of information and media products.

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