The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Our objective is to bring the Internet within reach of the general public, and to make it fertile ground in which new products, services, and businesses can thrive.
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The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Firewalls are important, as there’s always going to be marauders out there on the Net.
The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Dial-up access and dedicated service to our customers are all part of the plan, including access via other switching systems such as ISDN, hyperstream frame relay, SMDS (switched multimegabit data service) and ATM (asynchronous transfer mode).
The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Corporations join W3C because they need that space to be stable and want to have a say in the way it evolves. They realize that the Web – as a highway and marketplace – has to be there as a precursor to all the fancy ways in which their products will be able to compete.
The Economy of Ideas
We’re going to have to look at information as though we’d never seen the stuff before … The economy of the future will be based on relationship rather than possession. It will be continuous rather than sequential. And finally, in the years to come, most human exchange will be virtual rather than physical, consisting not of stuff but the stuff of which dreams are made. Our future business will be conducted in a world made more of verbs than nouns.
The Economy of Ideas
Cryptography will enable protection technologies that will develop rapidly in the obsessive competition that has always existed between lock-makers and lock-breakers. But cryptography will not be used simply for making locks. It is also at the heart of both digital signatures and the aforementioned digital cash, both of which I believe will be central to the future protection of intellectual property.
The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Unlike the road system, the Internet can and should be paid for as a commercially viable service. Special segments of the marketplace may well need assistance, and this can be provided by government or other support mechanisms. On the whole, competitive provision of service still seems the most attractive formula.
The Economy of Ideas
In most of the schemes I can project, the file would be “alive” with permanently embedded software that could “sense” the surrounding conditions and interact with them … Of course, files that possess the independent ability to communicate upstream sound uncomfortably like the Morris Internet Worm. “Live” files do have a certain viral quality. And serious privacy issues would arise if everyone’s computer were packed with digital spies.
The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Everybody wants to do that, to be the first bank of the Internet.
The Economy of Ideas
Discontinuous upgrades will smooth into a constant process of incremental improvement and adaptation, some of it man-made and some of it arising through genetic algorithms. Pirated copies of software may become too static to have much value to anyone.