Press FAQ: Collaboration and Automatability, Sept 95

It could be that some scientific field will be the first to be sufficiently disciplined to input its data not just as cool hypertext, but in a machine-readable form, allowing programs to wander the globe analyzing and surmising … The knowledge-engineering field has to learn how to be global, and the Web has to learn knowledge engineering, but in the end this might be a way in which again the scientific field leads the world into something very powerful, and a new paradigm shift.

E-mail Conference Highlights IS Challenges

Imminent national and international data “superhighways” will lead to a vastly more complex world. “It will be as disruptive as going from mainframes to LANs.”

A Distributed View of the World;U. Penn Visionary Sees an Intrinsic Link Between Ultra-High-Speed Networks and the Emergence of True Distributed Computing

The question will be, can [high-speed distributed computing] be done? The money is there if the help can be found … In the next 10 years, the industry will see a reemergence of systems integrators to bring all these pieces together and make them work.

A Distributed View of the World;U. Penn Visionary Sees an Intrinsic Link Between Ultra-High-Speed Networks and the Emergence of True Distributed Computing

When we jump to gigabit speeds, it will be a revolutionary shift.

His Goal: Keeping the Web Worldwide

The world of computer networks may be too decentralized to be dominated by one or few companies. In short, the PC business model does not apply to the Internet.

Data Superhighway: ‘Very Scary’; AAAS: Science in a Changing World; Everyone is in Favor of it, But No One Knows What it is

Gore’s father was instrumental in building (real) highways which changed our society in good ways and bad, [giving us suburbs and congested inner cities, as well as incredible mobility]. There’s every reason to believe the information highways will do the same thing.

The Net: A Brief Tour

The information age we’re creating will be based on computers and the networks that interconnect them … You can even help shape its growth and direction.

The Net: A Brief Tour

With the technological face-lift they’re giving the whole White House system, it won’t be long before you can comment on a policy and get a personal reply.