Selling on the Net

You’ll just [use it to] get prepared, read product reviews, look at components. The retail side will still be there, but you won’t have to run around looking for depth of information.

The Internet – Where’s It All Going?

We aim to promote a route for incremental moves from existing static images toward full VR, so programs on slower machines – or with slower links – can still negotiate some representation of the VR world that they can handle. This is the way.

Computer Crusader: With a Renewed Sense of Purpose, Mitch Kapor Anoints Himself the Voice of Democracy in Cyberspace

Computer-based communications is a new medium that will be as important as print was in the 14th century. There is a larger transformation going on.

Fast Growth Spells Trouble for Internet Traditionalists

With the 4 million people using national services such as America Online and an estimated 17 million bulletin board system (BBS) users nationwide slowly being introduced to the Internet, that spells potential disaster for traditionalists, said Jack Rickard, editor of the magazine Boardwatch.

The Internet – Where’s It All Going?

Homes will come equipped with LANs that link most appliances, so power companies can adjust electrical peak demand and that enable remote diagnostics to run on computer-controlled devices. Internet services will be readily accessible and interworkable with video services. Computer software will help set up teleconference calls from home, support telecommuting – which will be mandated in more states where pollution from commuting has become a major problem – and enable multi-party games.

The Wired Philosophy of Cyberspace

I think we need to question all the things that we take for granted. We need to look at what it is we are trying to accomplish with democractic government and see that perhaps we can accomplish those without an intermediary. I think we’re seeing that there are other ways of resolving differences in society, other ways of arriving at consensus, other ways of affecting and shaping public opinion, than holding a debate in Parliament at Westminster, or holding a debate in Congress.

Stupid Building Tricks

In the world of the future people will use low-cost Radio Shack equipment to spy on themselves to find out who they are.

Don’t Blame Me!

The WWW is OK, but eventually people get bored (it’s the old ViewData problem: nobody wants to view data!). What people need is interaction with other people, and that’s what MUDs give them.

Don’t Blame Me!

If the commercial companies eschew text in favor of graphics, people who excel at writing text MUDs will not be able to get jobs doing it. Result: no professional-quality text MUDs. Eventually, this can only lead to the marginalization of amateur MUDs, which will be labelled as the haunts of weirdoes and social inadequates, ignored by the mainstream. OK, so it might not happen – but it might! And if it does, don’t blame me!