Sparks Fly on Electric Money

Governments who stifle the new technology while it is still in its infancy, before it has had a chance to develop and harmonize with our institutions, who don’t proactively support needed infrastructure, or who fail to establish confidence by protecting against systemic risk will be left behind in global competition. Countries who take clear positions based on understanding of the technology and encourage needed developments stand to gain enormous economic growth and market leadership.

Transforming The Decade: 10 Critical Technologies; Fiber Optics New Networks For the Nation

[The Internet] will unleash a tremendous amount of creativity and innovation which will lead to capabilities we can’t even imagine today.

Attention Internet Shoppers: E-Cash Is Here

As payments on the network mature, you’re going to be paying for all kinds of small things, more payments than one makes today, and they’re going to be that much more revealing. Every article you read, every question you have, you’re going to have to pay for it.

Information Technology, Marketing Practice, and Consumer Privacy: Ethical Issues

Consumer concern about control over private information is growing, and marketers’ inaction and/or active resistance to change is increasing the friction over information ownership rights. In this situation, it is useful to ask what forces might lead to a change in marketer-originated consumer-privacy safeguards in the future … Change caused by a commitment to ethical behavior is likely to be less costly – or even more profitable – than change implemented to comply with new legislation.

MCI Sponsorship of Eastern European Environmental Librarians Opens Door to Global Internet Info Exchange

As the explosive growth of the Internet continues, it is critical that we introduce the unique capabilities of this global network to those parts of the world who need a “jump start” to get on the superhighway.

Profile: For ‘Father of the Internet,’ New Goals, Same Energy

People in business would like to buy a very fat pipe through which they pump everything – voice, data, video, e-mail and faxes – rather than using separate connections.

Accountability and Computer Decision Systems

In the field of computer decision systems, norms are poorly articulated and only vaguely understood … We must turn our attention to identifying norms appropriate to environments in which computer decision systems are developed and used. These norms should be shaped to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of computer decision systems.

Profile: For ‘Father of the Internet,’ New Goals, Same Energy

The right thing to do was go back into the private sector and take all I’d learned about information infrastructure and turn it into something people could use … When you’re in a fully networked environment, there isn’t much in the way of “there.”

Accountability and Computer Decision Systems

System designers should articulate standards of behavior as part of a process of professionalization that will create accountability in the field of computer decision systems.