Slides from my session at Learning 2006 conference in Orlando on Nov.7, 2006 The description was: The future is already here. What is a mash-up and why is it emerging as the overarching model of the future? Examples can be seen in Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Second Life, MySpace, open source, Amazon, etc. In the emerging “non monetary economy”, people will be "pro-sumers" and experience the ability for Personalization at an industrial and global scale.