I Have Seen the Future: It Is Flooded With E-mail
I have had a vision of the future. In it, we live in a virtual-reality environment and we spend all our waking hours as employees of the U.S. Electronic Postal Service. Wake me when it’s over.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Digital Entrepreneurship: Doing Business on the Information Superhighway
If the Internet is commercialized and privatized, having to pay for network access and services may radically change the behavior of many end users.
Digital Entrepreneurship: Doing Business on The Information Superhighway
Anyone with a computer and modem and access to the Internet or the major commercial network-service providers can now lobby the White House electronically, perhaps providing a glimpse of a future where special interests will engage in remote telelobbying and Ross Perot will not even be able to tell us what kinds of shoes lobbyists are wearing.
Games By Wire: Modem Play and Online Entertainment Spark New Fire for PC Gamers
[The modem game market] should go through extreme rapid growth in the next few years, like software did in the early ’80s. I predict double-digit growth in the next five years.
One, Two, and Three
Networks that enable businesses to conduct electronic commerce via e-mail over public networks … When a trading partner on its open network identifies itself through its public key, some central authority has to certify its authenticity. One possible CA is the U.S. Postal Service, but VISA International and RSA Data Security also want to become the accepted CA … When a CA has indeed been designated, EDI over the Internet will begin to reach critical mass, and that could happen in 1996.
Cyberpunk
Increasingly, there is going to be this virtual world out there … We need to educate young people about being good network citizens. Many people have no understanding of the damage that can be done via a computer network.
Keynote Speech: Networked Communities and the Laws of Cyberspace
For all the glitter and gold out there on the frontier, there is, existing simultaneously, a sinister side to cyberspace. It is an aspect of life that every community, whether real or virtual, has to deal with. So even as we look to the network and to the first colonies on the electronic frontier to empower human beings with the tools of the Information Age, to improve people’s lives, and to provide entertainment and enjoyment, the potential for harm in the networked community may become more than a “virtual reality”; it may become a real reality.
Check Back Next Year to Look at the Future
[Coming by] 2000: The first serious examples of a new kind of human computer interface, combining natural-language processing with speech recognition, social computing, and smart software (built-in expertise).
The Unfolding Net: The Internet’s Massive Growth Continues to Drive Commerce and Innovation
The next great nexus is the union of Internet resources and library systems, and the focus of that convergence is the library catalog – a newly integrated catalog which, in response to a userÕs query, both delivers an array of potentially relevant information sources regardless of their format or manner of access and allows direct connection to them.
‘This Is A Naked Lady’: Behind Every New Technology Is … Sex?
All media, if they are to get a jump-start in the market and become successful, must address themselves to mass drives – those things we hold in common as basic human needs … And now we have come to the “digital age” where all information and images can be digitized; where all bits are equal, but some are hotter than others … Progress marches on. In time, robotics will deliver household servants and sex slaves.