Get ready to immerse yourself in a new blended world, a place where people weave together digital and physical environments as they go about their daily lives. It's a world where the virtual and the physical are seamlessly integrated, and Cyberspace is not a place you go to but rather a layer tightly integrated into the world around us.

Join us for this Technology Horizons exchange to get a glimpse of this world and to learn what it means for you, your organizations, your employees, and your customers.

In our past exchanges we delved into technologies behind this transformation--wireless Web, advanced simulations, sensor webs, mobile devices, etc.  In this exchange we will focus on the experience of living in the blended digital/physical world--the practices people use to navigate this world and the issues they face.

You will have a chance to hear from a young woman who streams every moment of her life to an online interactive audience, a researcher who documents his life 24/7, a professional who has created an external digital “brain” that works in symbiosis with his biological one, and much more.  You will interact with researchers developing some of the leading edge applications, people on the forefront of evolving new social practices in the blended world, and IFTF researchers who will share foresights based on their recent ethnographic research. And you will experience the debut of a unique video installation called Global Lives, a project that embodies what IFTF has termed "bottom-up ethnography." Global Lives is an international collaboration of filmmakers, designers, architects, and activists from around the globe who are documenting 24 hours of the lives of 10 people from 10 different countries.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to glimpse at how our reality may be changing right under our noses.

Please mark your calendars for November 18-19, 2008. The Technology Horizons Fall Conference will be held at the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco, California.