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The future has never looked more futuristic. By next year
we expect to see computer-generated movie stars, appliances that talk to one another, new top-level Web domains (maybe even .sex or .sucks) and an explosion of Web-based cartoons even more outrageous than this year's Hard Drinkin' Lincoln. There will also be more threats to your Internet privacy than ever before and, possibly, the worst computer virus in history. In the midst of these coming storms, look for these 12 movers and shakers.