Boom Time on the New Frontier
A lot of this “too hard to use” stuff will go away. Radio was so messy for the first 20 years, it wasn’t funny. Cars ditto – you had to be a mechanic to drive one.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Boom Time on the New Frontier
People on the Internet are talking as if they are Native Americans, and the Pilgrims are on the shore. They think of this as an Edenic environment, a garden, and [they] hear over the horizon the combines coming to harvest its fruits for commercial purposes.
A Capitol Problem: Address Shortages on the Internet
Despite a lot of current press, the Internet is not about to fall apart … Life, the Universe, and the Internet will continue to prevail. So, so long, and thanks for all the attention. Clearly the perceived problems are mostly harmless.
The Frontier in Movie Promotion is – You Guessed it – the Internet, But Will it Help the Box Office?
“Batman Forever” doesn’t look so great in a postage stamp[-sized] window … The time will come when the technology is there. Eventually this is going to be an important way of promoting movies.
The Frontier in Movie Promotion is – You Guessed it – the Internet, But Will it Help the Box Office?
It will become a real advertising tool but not to the exclusion of other advertising tools. It doesn’t displace television; it doesn’t displace print. It complements it.
The Frontier in Movie Promotion is – You Guessed it – the Internet, But Will it Help the Box Office?
It’s smart business to stay in touch with the technology. I know there’s something happening and it’s smart for us to tap into it now.
The Frontier in Movie Promotion is – You Guessed it – the Internet, But Will it Help the Box Office?
It’s going to be huge. It’s a huge tool for involving people in movies and encouraging them to go. And it’s at a point now where most of the studios already have a Web site.
Cartoonists See a Future That’s No Joking Matter
“Flat, dead-tree” cartooning will dwindle in importance … editorial cartoons will be computer-animated.
Sun Microsystems Climbing Aboard the Net
The Internet will become much more than a web for sharing data among the world’s computers. [Instead,] the Internet will begin to function more like a single giant computer, with its intelligence and processing power distributed among the millions of machines connected to it.
ON LINE WITH William Gibson; Present at the Creation, Startled at the Reality
Cash is a dubious thing … Cyberspace is where the bank keeps your money and to a real extent it’s where the stock market happens. I’m waiting for the Three Mile Island of computer banking – some unspeakable meltdown, although I’m hoping it really doesn’t come along. That will be when we discover the extent of our reliance on computation.