There’s a good chance the Net will become as big a player in communications as the telephone, the mail and video technology. It will be one of a set of tools that more and more people will use. But the whole issue of regulation could be a show-stopper. It could get so regulated that people would be unwilling to use it or to offer service on it.
[We expect to see] live Web cams in hospital nurseries by late 1990s.
Trust will be the glue that holds the Net-enabled knowledge economy together.
Ultra-intelligent electronic agents will be mainstream by 2005.
[We expect] the rapid growth of knowledge-sharing electronic communities.
[We predict] the growth of e-commerce starting by the mid-1990s.
[We expect] the growth of virtual corporations doing business online starting by the mid-1990s.
IBM will position mainframes as super servers by the mid 1990s.
[We expect] the growth of data warehouses using data mining throughout the 1990s.
Real estate sales will be online by mid to late 1990s.