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A peep into the fascinating future of virtual worlds

Madhur Tankha

Get to the heart of the digital revolution on CNN

NEW DELHI: The digital revolution has enabled breathtaking vistas on movie screens and heart-pounding action in computer games. It has helped people across the globe bond and transformed the way they communicate with each other. Now a brand new future summit programme will be aired on CNN on June 13 that gets to the heart of these remarkable developments with the biggest global players leading this digital revolution.

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout will host the hour-long programme, looking at the blurring lines between reality and imagination and how these technological developments are shaping our communities and the lives of our children. Distinguished panellists include founders of Wikipedia, Second Life and Flickr in addition to renowned academics and psychologists who together form a vision of our future. The programme, "CNN Future Summit", will explain why the ability to always be in touch with friends and family will be greatly enhanced when we are able to see each other in absolute clarity, anywhere, anytime.

Online worlds

According to CNN, people will find themselves living, shopping and working more and more inside online worlds. And in future, people would not be sitting in the couch being passively entertained, as films will become more interactive, while games will become more cinematic and realistic.

Indeed the CNN programme itself also utilises many cutting-edge-techniques used in modern film and television production in order to capture the fascinating future of virtual worlds.

"CNN Future Summit" is a two-year multi-media programme produced in association with the Singapore Tourist Board that aims to stimulate global discussion. Through http://cnn.com/futuresummit, viewers across the world can explore the views and interact with a remarkable list of leading explorers, scientists, philosophers, designers, entrepreneurs, futurists, authors and journalists.

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