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The problem with Mosaic is that it’s currently for the “haves” of the Internet. This is an attempt to bring this exciting end of the Internet to the average user. We think this is the future of on-line publishing.
The problem with Mosaic is that it’s currently for the “haves” of the Internet. This is an attempt to bring this exciting end of the Internet to the average user. We think this is the future of on-line publishing.
Browsing represents a form of advertising that is noninvasive and that seems to fit well with the culture of the Internet, whose users tend to be easily infuriated by electronic junk mail. “I’m convinced that very quickly we’ll have a new Madison Avenue kind of industry devoted to this style of advertising,” said Tony Rutkowski.
“Information retrieval technology is starting to spread from supercomputers all the way down to personal computers,” said Brewster Kahle … In the future, a special directory or “white pages” will keep an up-to-date list of all the separate sources on the network.
Mitchell Kapor, the founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, predicts the growth of a new industry as significant as the personal computer business.
People are just beginning to realize the implications of the fact that anything can be digitized … The Internet is the universal communications medium of the future.
The future, in my opinion, does not lie in the cable networks. The future is in the Internet, which is 100 percent democratic. … Hopefully, the (cable industry) Goliath is going to get hit in the head with a stone, the stone being the Internet.
I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I’m religious about this. I don’t think it’s cable television.
We will get fully interactive digital multimedia in ways you can only experience in the research lab today … [Imagine a place where] we can navigate the world vicariously, where we will pour out our recipes, opinions of what is good about places, see what other people see, not what establishments want us to see, where we will much more quickly transact for things we are used to doing on the telephone or in person.
[There will be an explosion of Web sites for ordering takeout food.] Everyone has their own drawer of takeout menus. Imagine doing that on-line.
Information on specialty producers will also reach consumers directly … specialty producers who stand to gain the most from Internet exposure cannot afford big advertising campaigns or deal in highly perishable products that can’t be sold through conventional channels of mass distribution such as supermarket chains. The Internet exposure can come about through informal news group conversations among food lovers or Web sites.