It will be possible for manufacturers to communicate with their subcontractors and suppliers, not just in the dry language of orders and receipts, but in the form of three-dimensional, highly detailed blueprints and prototypes.
Just as every home in America is now linked to the rest of the country by a driveway that goes to a street, that goes to a highway, that goes to an interstate, we want every home and business in America to be linked by an information highway into a national network that will ultimately be … invisible to the user in the sense that the information will be there at the desktop terminal.
When this media blitz is over, people will start to get tired of using things like Netscape to read Web pages online every day. I mean, all these things about reading glossy magazines online – people are going to realize they can just buy a paper magazine and take it to a coffee shop to read … Once the initial rush to get on the Internet is over, people will start to look for a community to get guidance from.
Companies that grew fast but failed to develop real services other than these Internet pipes are skating on very thin ice … The development of online communities is definitely a value-added service.
Digital networks such as the Internet, for example, are so flexible that it is practically impossible to imagine the range of architectural choices that lie ahead.
[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in looking at the Changing Context of NII.] The proposed National Information Infrastructure promises a radical transformation of the way Americans at all levels generate, transmit, access, and use information.
[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future government information delivery.] The subelement supports work in implementing new programs to develop and apply high-performance computing and high-speed networking technologies to vastly improve public access to information generated by Federal, state, and local governments.
High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future National Challenges: … Services provide the underlying network-capable building blocks upon which the National Challenges can be constructed. They will form the basis of the ubiquitous “Information Web” of the 21st century. Services bridge the gap between the communications bitways and the application-specific software components that implement the National Challenges.
We have in the Internet the seeds of this [next network] … What people want, and what people do, will shape what comes next.
In our education process we teach this blind faith in technology. We need to basically present the antitechnology viewpoint as reasonable. That we should look at [technology] with an incredibly critical eye. Just because we can do X, Y, Z, doesn’t mean we should do X, Y, Z.