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Meet Frank Ogden-alias Dr. Tomorrow, Vancouver's high-tech activist 
and virtual seer.

At seventy-five years of age, you would expect Frank Ogden to have put 
away childish toys and be relaxing on his houseboat, perhaps reading a 
Jane Austen novel. Not Dr. Tomorrow!  In fact, he's written the book 
on the death of books, called The Last book You Will Ever Read.  The 
unwary(or uninformed) buyer unwraps the package only to find a 35-cent 
disk inside an empty shell.  He also wrote Navigating In Cyberspace: A 
Guide to the Third Millennium, and his latest publishing effort will 
be to put a boo on a crystal the size of a sugar cube and then have it 
reverse engineered into stone tablets.

Ninety percent of all the goods and services you are going to be 
interacting with in the year 2006 haven't even been developed yet."

Ogden, an international sought after "virtual" speaker, is one of the 
greatest champions of the new technology.  At a recent conference in 
Austria, he hang-glided through the Grand Canyon-without ever leaving 
the convention hall.

	A Self-proclaimed cyborg, Ogden cruised cyberspace until he 
found someone who could cure his failing vision.  "I now have 
surgically implanted interoccular lenses and my vision in both eyes is 
20/17., about three points better than the airline pilots that fly me 
around.  In fact, at age seventy-one I got back my airplane, 
helicopter, glider and balloon license."
	Where does he see VR heading?
	"Certainly the next decade is going to make the last one seem 
like an age of tranquility.  Your automobile won't be the same. Your 
television will probably be obsolete and you will be watching it on your 
computer as I have been for seven years.  It will all be one appliance 
and it will be voice-activated."

Dr. Tomorrow's advice?  Get a ten-year-old hacker to show you the 
ropes, then gear up and enjoy the ride.

Contact Frank Ogden in cyberspace at http://www.drtomorrow.com or 
simply use any Internet search software to find Dr. Tomorrow.

-- Text copyright Robson Street Preview (Fall/96)