1 Please describe some virtual products, that in your opinion will be realised in the next 5-10 years!

...loss of identity in networks, rebuilding entirely ourselves, designer´s identities...
...electric skins: emotions are picked up, the decor made by mood...
...development from the search engines of today to independent agents

2 With what kind of design tools could these products be created?
...with mind gymnastics like in games, an accellaration of the mind will be realised throughout the design of intellectual games...
...in network environment...
...Hypermedia as an important tool, requires a skilful intermediation of design, design becomes equated to thinking...
...Meta-design - designing tools for making a design...

3 What kind of technical support will be needed to use these virtual products?

...high bandwith, software: either JAVA or mix with JAVA...
...Hardware: there´ll be a religion of materialism, a devotion to the solid, concrete object...
...The more virtual we go, the more material we´re going, like the more global we go, the more local we´re going...these are the natural complementary points...
...virtuality is going to be cheap: endless repeatable, changable...

4 How can psychological processes (like creativity, learning,...) be supported by virtual products?

...computer assisted dialogues and monologues...
...connective creativity is the issue of more than one mind, a psychological grouping, a flow, intelligence in the air... ...Just-in-time communities...

5 What kind of social effects do you expect by using virtual products?

We´ve now a changing of the valuation system: a movement from the broadcast to the network model...
...transnationalism...
displacement of job relationships...
...values constantly restructured without a vision...
...digitizing of everything...

6 Your notes, your ideas...

...The future of design is very healthy: the more technology - the more interface will be designed...
...designers and artists share the sommon scharacteristics that they are interpreters of technology...