Context

28 years ago - Word Processor

21 years ago - ConflictNet

15 years ago - Mediate.com

• 15% on email
• 14.4 dial up

10 years ago "ODR" prompted by e-commerce

Today: All effectively with email and more and more with broadband

Incremental adoption of Internet technologies by field

• email
• web sites
• attachments

Need for "reasonably secure," "reasonably affordable" and highly capable online capacity 

Can ODR save mediation? 

Relationship of ODR and asynchrony to most capable problem-solving

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