As Technology Converges, So Do Technology Companies
We are heading out there toward convergence but nobody has a clue what it’s converging into … But everybody realizes they’ve got to get off their duff … People are looking for the best position.
Subtopic: General
Adapting ’60s Sensibilities to the Internet
Being on the Internet is a process of reading and writing, so books and publishing should be a real opportunity. And all the wonderful things about the Internet can come later, but if it’s going to grow and spread further, it’s got to be a money-making business.
Who’s Who in the Internet
E-mail dominates the Internet, and it’s likely to remain the dominant use of the Internet in the future. Nonetheless, I expect to see an exciting array of other applications which become heavily used and cause a change in the perception of the Internet as primarily a “mail system.”
The Webmaster: Kip Parent
From the first time I saw the Web in March ’93. I believed that it was going to be the information superhighway and that proprietary services were going to die.
How the Internet Came to Be, Part 2
It seems likely that the Internet will continue to be the environment of choice for the deployment of new protocols and for the linking of diverse systems in the academic, government, and business sectors for the remainder of this decade and well into the next.
Web Expected to Change the Face of Business: Analyst
You will be accessing the Internet through your cable system instead of through the phone system. Technologies are blending.
Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System
They must realize that they have to cooperate more intensively than before: The stakes are extremely large; there is too much to learn and events are moving too rapidly; the resources and degree of stakeholder coordination involved are both very high.
A Model for Cost Allocation and Pricing in the Internet
While the mechanisms in the Internet seem to work today, the most significant service enhancement would be some means to limit the worst-case behavior of each user, so that the resulting overall service was more stable, and some means to distinguish and separately serve users with very different transfer objectives, so that each could be better satisfied.
Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System
As the number and scale of knowledge domains involved in a given CSCW [consumer -supported cooperative work] Web increases, so does the need for online interoperability.
The Trends that Will Shape Our Future
The video telephone and the transfer of information into home and office via communication networks … will change the face of communication as we now know it.