Building the Electronic Superhighway
Gore, whose father championed the nation’s interstate highway system in Congress, argues that a data superhighway should be built by the government and then operated by private industry.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Building the Electronic Superhighway
The enormous network of fiber-optic cable and sophisticated switches should be built by the government.
Basic Questions Dog Electronic Road
On the one hand, we waste a lot of time walking around and traveling. But there’s something lost if we’re not going to the library and browsing through books, if we don’t have to chat with other people.
The Media Business; New Coalition to Seek A Public Data Highway
There should be a national debate about what kind of media system we should have … The debate has been framed so far by a handful of communications giants who have been working overtime to convince the American people that the data highway will be little more than a virtual electronic shopping mall.
The Ultra Generation: To The Next Millennium
We estimate that graphics performance is increasing about 1000 times every 10 years: that is, it’s on that two-times-per-year curve that I wanted all along. And to win, we are looking for a graphics architecture that will scale more like a factor of 10,000 times over the next 10 years.
Getting Cyber Smart
The Exon bill would do nothing to stop pedophiles from seducing children in cyberspace … Common sense and parental involvement is the way to foil pedophiles.
Getting Cyber Smart
[The Communications Decency Act] will, however, fundamentally change the nature of a global medium in which what is obscene anywhere becomes obscene everywhere.
Have Data, Will Travel
Using unforgeable digital fingerprints, agents could vouch for their masters’ identity and prove that they had not been corrupted.
Have Data, Will Travel
Agents will run as fully fledged programs on any computer … That sounds good if you want capable agents, bad if you are worried about security. An agent looks disconcertingly like a computer virus, doing things on other people’s computers they may not want done.
An Interview with Interop Founder Dan Lynch
I would like to be able to say there are some exciting software technologies out there on the horizon, but there aren’t. They’re all trying to hide the ugliness of programming. We got started down the track of binary representation, and it’s unbelievably fragile. If one bit is off, you get something entirely different. We built computers on the wrong foundation, and I think you’ll just see more and more kluges in the software until someday someone will figure out a completely new paradigm, a completely different way of thinking about data.