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BY PETER LEYDEN

Part IV: Dawn of a second renaissance

Like the printing press, digital technologies could revolutionize government, education and culture

Politics of Digital Age creating even stranger bedfellows

Learning will become interactive

Current system was created in the Industrial Age to mass-produce workers

Launching a cultural revolution

Technology already is transforming our ideas about language, art and music

Nature could have the answers

Don Norman, fellow at Apple Computer

Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine

Alvin Toffler, futurist

Peter Schwartz, president of Global Business network, a futurist think tank

John Naisbitt, futurist

Peter Hutchinson, head of the Public Strategies Consulting Firm

Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community"

Tribalism may replace nationalism

Road to Digital Age paved with challenges

Each of us faces our own personal edge

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