Introduction

Many products will cost less, as overhead expenses shrink.

Security Pundits Weigh War Threat

We need to design [systems] with the assumption they will operate in an unsafe environment. We need to manage passwords better, so that we no longer have “Elvis” as a password anywhere in the world.

Security Pundits Weigh War Threat

Hackers are getting more savvy every day. Your risks are increased by putting your business on the Internet or on any public network.

Security Pundits Weigh War Threat

I believe we are facing an electronic Pearl Harbor. All you need is a PC, a modem, a little skill and a lot of patience, and you can do a lot of damage.

CIOs Should Get Back to Basics

Within the next 20 years, you’ll see over half of the information technology assets moving into the hands of commercially run service utilities. “Outsourcing” is just a name that masks a profound change in the way technology may support the majority of customers in the future. What you see is the end of the craft-guild mode and the beginning of the industrialization of information processing.

Who’s Kidding Whom?

Digital electronics makes everything much cheaper very quickly. No other fundamental economic force has this capability. The physics of semi-conductors ensures that rapid, exponential price/performance improvements for everything digital is inevitable. Any industry that gets on the curve is locked into these digital economics. And any industry that fights the Microcosm will lose. Computers are on the curve. Telecommunications is not yet. We need cheap, fast, digital end-to-end networking. Now.

The Information Appliance

The new information-appliance PCs will not only be user-friendly, they’ll also come in lots of different shapes and sizes. Think of them as the gadgets on “Star Trek.” On the Enterprise, information appliances were everywhere. Handheld models diagnosed sick aliens and damaged transporters. There were computers that crew members talked into, typed into and sent messages back and forth over.

Right-Of-Way On The Info-Highway

Which companies are eligible candidates to build a large, complex networked system like the hyp(ed)othetical Info-Highway? IBM? Yes. AT&T? Yes. Microsoft? No. Apple? No. Oracle? Maybe. Sun Microsystems? Maybe. Sony? Forget it. 3DO? 3D who? The Info-Highway brings us right back to basic issues. The fundamental separation between simple and complex systems permeates competitive bake-offs and industrial face-offs throughout the computer business. This separation is the key distinction between personal computers and workstations … PCs are simple systems; workstations are complex systems.

Telecommunications: Internet as Simple as a Phone Call

In just a few years time, the Internet will have become as banal as the telephone.

Viewpoint: Verbatim

In five years, it won’t be just 200 million computers [on the Internet] but something like several billion, and the current addressing technique is inadequate for that.