ADVISORY/The Next 20 Years San Francisco Series Forecasts the Future of Technology.

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ADVISORY ... For Thursday, June 29

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The Next 20 Years (TNTY) San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden series announces its fourth year of bringing together thought leaders to discuss the future of technology. The event will be held on June 29, 2000 at the Palace of Fine Arts

For the opera house in Mexico City, see Palacio de Bellas Artes, and for the Palace of Fine Arts that was part of Chicago's White City fairgrounds for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), see Museum of Science and Industry.

in San Francisco. Guest speakers will discuss the future of technology and its impact on commerce and society. Dan Farber, vice president and editor-in-chief of ZDNet, will host the TNTY technology series. Additional thought leaders and industry visionaries participating in the panel discussion include R. Stan Williams Stan Williams can refer to different people:

Stanley Tookie Williams: a founder of The Crips
Stan Williams: a Major League Baseball player

, principal laboratory scientist and director of Quantum Structures Research Initiatives (QSRI); Bill Gurley, partner at Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon ; and Paul Saffo Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. , director of Institute of the Future. SoftNet Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFN) is supporting the Web cast and onsite high speed Internet services for the innovative demonstrations.

Representative companies exhibiting at the TNTY technology show include industry leaders such as Netscape, AT&T, Motorola and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , along with intriguing start-up ventures like NetByTel, Engage and GuruNet. The invitation-only cocktail reception will offer a sneak peek at the future and the technology innovations that will get us there. Sample exhibits include IBM's In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS IVIS International Veterinary Information Service
IVIS Interactive Video Information System
IVIS Intervehicular Information System
IVIS Inter-Vehicular Information System
IVIS Integrated Vehicular Information System
IVIS in Vehicle Information System ) auto where people use ViaVoice speech recognition and text-to-speech software to interact with their automobiles the same way that they interact with their computers. Also, an exhibit of Motorola's "smart label" product, BiStatix, will be demonstrated. BiStatix can be read, written to and modified through a wireless radio frequency interface, allowing inanimate objects of every kind to "talk" and pass messages among themselves.

WHAT: The Next 20 Years 2000 Technology Series

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, June 29, 5:30 p.m., at the Palace of Fine Arts,

San Francisco

WHY: TNTY technology series will showcase and predict where the

technology industry is headed in the next 20 years.

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