Interview: Marc Andreessen Tackles Internet Issues
All of a sudden software like ours starts to make a lot of sense … That compels us to produce better tools to make it easier for them to do that, which is what we’re doing.
Subtopic: General
A PDF Day 2001 Salute to John Warnock & Charles Geschke
Acrobat will fundamentally change the economics of information by removing the critical barriers that have kept electronic documents from moving between computers. Today’s paper-based information is hampered by the physical media. Acrobat technology liberates information and the flow of ideas and allows it to enter the electronic age.
Publishing Models for Internet Commerce
The greatest threat to the original peer-to-peer Internet is probably the World Wide Web. While the Web was originally conceived as a groupware product, the wide success of Windows-based browsers has created a network in which a great many of the participants are no longer able to provide information, but only to consume it.
Farber’s New Year’s Editorial: Move It or Lose It
Unless we continue and expand ultra-high-speed activities we will lose the momentum of industry and academia. We will lose the ability to train a new generation of communication engineers, and, in my mind, we will have failed the next generation of U.S. scientists and entrepreneurs.
Farber’s New Year’s Editorial: Move It or Lose It
If we cease to move forward at this critical time we stand a very good chance of losing our technological leadership in the next century. Our pioneering efforts will transfer to Europe and Asia, with them reaping the commercial benefits of high-speed technology.
Time to Get Thinking
What is more important … is the challenge of facing a future in which gigabit-speed networking will be considered slow, in which our communication infrastructure will consist of multi-gigabit, low error, high-latency networks, in which our processing units, while growing faster, will not keep up with increasing communication speeds.
Publishing Models for Internet Commerce
I eventually expect to see stand-alone online products sold by subscription; we’re coming very close to the mechanisms needed to make this widespread and widely accepted. In the short term, hybrid print/CD/online products hold a great deal of promise.
The Year 2010: Internet to the Toaster
Continued development of ever-more-powerful hardware and software, allowing easier and faster access to vast resources of information and entertainment, will within 15 years make the Internet nearly as ubiquitous and pervasive as the telephone is today.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Knowledge-age technology makes the value of physical goods, as well as services, depend increasingly on their knowledge content. The creation of knowledge through learning and the embodiment of knowledge in software now hold the keys to wealth.
School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
The majority of the future “workforce” is destined to be made up of contractors and consultants, including temporaries and part-timers, whose role is more one of “supplier” than “employee.” As intellectual property becomes more central to the valuation of businesses, and as most “production” work is eventually taken over by machines, workers in most fields will want compensation in the form of “points” and “residuals”: that is, a share in the ownership of capital.