Gore’s father was instrumental in building (real) highways which changed our society in good ways and bad, [giving us suburbs and congested inner cities, as well as incredible mobility]. There’s every reason to believe the information highways will do the same thing.
The information age we’re creating will be based on computers and the networks that interconnect them … You can even help shape its growth and direction.
Trust will be the glue that holds the Net-enabled knowledge economy together.
[We foresee] the growth of geographic information systems (GIS) for marketing.
The Web will spawn the biggest revolution of our lifetime.
Now any company or organization can afford to develop a presence on the world’s largest and, soon-to-be, most accessible computer network. And most importantly, they can do it in their own way without being taxed or held back by the limitations imposed by closed, proprietary systems.
The telegraph is the ancestor of just about everything modern we know today, and this year it’s 150 years old. I think it’s fitting that this is also the first year that the Internet fully sheds its experimental status and takes its place as a fledgling medium along with print and TV. Like the telegraph, the Internet will surely spawn all kinds of inventions and new ways of doing things, things we can’t imagine today. And someday, strangely enough, our descendants will look back at 1994, the year of the birth of the Internet-as-medium, as the old days and wonder how in the world we ever got by with such primitive technology!
The Internet is another viable way to force distribution. I would look at it that way, if I were you.
“Is this is a real medium? Is this something that’s going to last? Is it really going to grow?” My answer to that is another question: “Does it fill a need?” And the answer to that question is – yes.
Let’s get rid of this idea that we’re trying to create some alternate world that’s going to be completely independent of all the other medias that exist. What we’re really doing right now is learning how the Internet fits in amongst all these existing medias. To integrate the different medias so that they support and coordinate with each other.