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Foreign Policy, March, 2008 by Takahashi, Dean

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Linda Stone is a writer, speaker, and technology consultant. She spent 20 years as a senior executive in the high-tech industry at firms including Apple and Microsoft. She was corporate vice president and founder and director of the Virtual Worlds Group at Microsoft Research, where she pioneered social interaction and virtual communities on the Internet. Her Web site is lindastone.net.

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Iconoclastic writer-thinker John Brockman started the Edge Foundation in 1988. His bimonthly publication, Edge, can be read online or as an e-mail. It features interviews, essays, and commentary by today's great science and technology thinkers.

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