The Information Superhighway as the Yellow Brick Road
Free speech and robust debate seem incompatible with maintaining the profitability and wholesome public image of consumer-oriented information networks.
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The Information Superhighway as the Yellow Brick Road
The information superhighway, like the Yellow Brick Road, is the route we must take to reach the Information Age … Problems of communication are in fact at the heart of the economic, social, and political difficulties that a great many citizens must contend with in the impoverished communities of the United States.
The Killer App Crew
We’re getting more and more on the desktop computer as it gets connected to very high bandwidth. If you start expecting the same thing on your portable while you’re traveling, then we have the problem of dealing with both of them. It hobbles our apps because we expect them to work in both locations. It can be a real problem because if people think we have high wireless bandwidth, they’re deluding themselves
Adapting ’60s Sensibilities to the Internet
Books and publishing should be a real opportunity. And all the wonderful things about the Internet can come later, but if it’s going to grow and spread further, it’s got to be a money-making business.
The Killer App Crew
The whole point of wireless is that it gets around the death hold the regional Bell operating companies have on plain old telephone service.
Adapting ’60s Sensibilities to the Internet
It’s the early ’80s again. There is the feeling again that computers are going to change the world, but this time it’s on the Net.
Internet Prepares for Commercialization
My fear is that it becomes entirely privatized.
Doubts About the Fantasy of a $500 ‘Network PC’
Internet companies might follow the cellular telephone model and offer cheap PCs at below cost, to get customers to sign up for more lucrative network services.
Doubts About the Fantasy of a $500 ‘Network PC’
New Internet technologies, like Sun’s Java and the Microsoft Corporation’s Blackbird systems, are expected to allow more processing power to reside on the network instead of in the client computer.
Guilty
Digital media could make it possible for people to interact – maybe even changing each other’s minds in the process – something traditional media inhibit throught their addicition to objectivity, spokespeople, and sensationalism … Online news suggests a forum in which it would be easier for fragmented political or racial groups to begin … teaching members of [many] tribes how to communicate and providing them with the simple means of doing so … If one tenet of our age is that information wants to be free, its companion is that media want to tell the truth. Neither information nor media get what they want much of the time; this is one of the great ironies of the information revolution and the sad legacy of the O.J. Simpson trial.