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				Bridging the public - private gap At Expo, the concept of "public private partnerships" is fundamental. Not only nations but also international companies, the new global players, participate as World or Product Partners. Whereas many national pavilions captivated with commonness, companies were more innovative. Siemens' WisDome illustrates a virtual global knowledge network. Junior cinematographers from Shanghai, Kenya, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Vienna co-produced a fivefold simultaneous movie. On five screens, the five plots run separately, but converge more and more to illustrate the interconnected life in a knowledge society. Daimler-Chrysler's Lab01 provides a fascinating playground, a showcase for future technologies at the interface between man and machine. Voice commands steer virtual robots through a 3-dimensional labyrinth [listen]. Machinery responds to a blink of the visitors' eye, an arm movement creates visual worlds. However, some partnerships have not succeeded so well. For example, visitors who travel to the thematic area Planet of Visions, stumble into a fairy 21st century to find themselves confronted with several IBM-sponsored utopias, among which a huge, computer-animated panorama, where statues reveal video-clips and people can write eMail messages on ice-cubes. The Bertelsmann Group landed its own UFO - planet m . To survive the trip on board, even members of the born-to-be-wired generation should be provided with steel nerves: When the UFO takes off, pictures patter, sounds reverberate and visitors' tears gush out during a cloying children's story about the blessing of new media. >> Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 TOP
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