The Internet does not support monopolies: it’s a web, not a single highway … The mass market has lost its power: Value is found in personal service. Therefore, a company like Microsoft will not control the new market. It will make a lot of money, but it won’t make monopoly rent. That’s why government involvement would be wrong. Don’t cure a disease until you’ve got the disease.
The information highway needs to emulate nature and have the ability to recover from disasters built into it … As the Internet grows in complexity, and companies do more business on the World Wide Web, there needs to be greater resilience incorporated, so that a break in a line can be accommodated by the system.
Europe has no comparable project [to America’s national communications infrastructure] and is “unlikely to enter the 21st century with a communications infrastructure that it could call a competitive advantage.”
If we are completely invisible we will have done our job perfectly.
Accelerated development of NII will enhance U.S. competitiveness; create markets and jobs; improve education and the delivery of healthcare; and advance manufacturing.
I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They’ll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won’t be a library without books – it’ll be a library without value.
Global competition will lower the expense of the technology and increase its accessibility. Your experiments, imagination, and communications will shape the future of this dynamic new medium – the Information Superhighway.
To make it easy for global customers to connect with and use the services of the Information Superhighway, issues of standards and protocols must be addressed.
We’re accustomed to communication links being the bottleneck; soon it will be the switching system itself. In the next decade, network traffic jams will be caused as much by the interchanges as by the thoroughfares. If every user expects the kind of service being touted by today’s Internet hustlers, a gigabyte-per-second bandwidth won’t be enough.
Using satellite and wireless communications, undeveloped countries can connect specific cities or regions without the expense or time involved in installing hardwire connections. The number of telephone lines will increase dramatically.