With poor and developing nations around the world isolated by crumbling or nonexistent Web infrastructures, and others hindered by factors ranging from remote geography to government censorship, is Schmidt's vision overly optimistic?
King Pacific Lodge, a floating luxury lodge in a remote coastal section of British Columbia, Canada, received a Global Vision Award for establishing protection for the 21 million-acre Great Bear Rainforest, which surrounds the property.
In Wolk's vision of the near future, cable companies will focus on using tablets that act as remote controls and TV guide replacements with baked-in second screen experiences.