They are very afraid of computer hackers, but I think mostly they are afraid of computers … Computers are a challenge and a threat, and they’re changing our society in ways that we can’t control and don’t understand. They’re not to be trusted.
As far as the software business goes, Microsoft has become like death and taxes … Sun Microsystems, by distributing Java freely over the Internet, will create an alternative software world that Microsoft will be unable to dominate.
Saul Carliner described his vision … an increased focus on content versus tools to unleash the power of information as a product.
Elizabeth Babcock … outlined her vision of the future … increased internationalization and continued growth in focusing on user needs.
Duin sees a blending of social and techinical areas of expertise in the future – merging studies of the technologies (interactive, multimedia and virtual reality) with the contexts of use (power, politics, relevance).
We will all soon be converting paper money into various forms of digital money so we can buy things online. Better yet, we’ll be selling things and converting their digital proceeds into, for example, investigative trips to the Caribbean … I propose using digital cash that can be exchanged spontaneously in very small amounts. Having a digital cash standard and associated micropayment systems should help solve three big Iway payment problems and ignite Iway commerce … If Internet access were to cost a digital dime an online hour, or file transfers a mil a megabyte mile, and if there were micropayment systems available to exchange such small amounts, then I think competitive pricing and metering would work just fine … With a micropayment system connected to your mail server, you could ask that strangers pay for the privilege of sending you messages.
We can no longer trust a photograph to tell the truth … subjects of electronic images are going to seek more control over the use of their likeness … We must be able to share the decision of how the images and modifications are used.
In 1994, Bill Gates said the Web revolution would be bigger than the PC revolution, and the most successful companies in it wouldnÕt even have been heard of yet, Java, Netscape, amazon.com Рnone of them were around back in 1994.
We want that advertising, but we want it at the time and place of our choosing.
Internet communities tend to ignore inappropriate laws and make their own on an ad hoc basis … Users are going to make the policies on the IH … As for the content of both TV and the Internet, the control over pornography and violence will ultimately be in the home. Parents will have to take more responsibility as to what their children view.