Faith Popcorn
The Internet is our future. We must see it for its value as part of a revolution in service. And, of course, the Internet is an example of “Eveolution:” 50 percent of surfers are women who feel at ease with the Web.
Archives: Expert Predictions
A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network
A name in any scheme will do, so long as it is completely specified. On systems which do not allow the name to be stored (such as anonymous FTP archive sites), a possible ambiguity will always exist as to whether two similarly named objects are in fact the same.
Log On, Stay in, Cash Out: Are You Ready for the 21st Century?
What we’re seeing now is something called the armoured cocoon, where people are just too scared to go out into their neighborhoods or to the mall, so they invest in expensive security and the outside world comes to them. All services are based around home delivery, the Internet plays a huge part in the armoured cocoon and with the rise of cybertechnology, fewer people are going to want to leave their homes when they can have more fun in cyberspace – I’m sure that some people will live “out there” all the time.
To Dream the Internetworking Dream
There are four categories of capabilities that are weak or non-existent on the public Internet that need to get fixed before we will see large amounts of company-to-company internetworking. The four areas are security, reliability, billing and navigation. Sure we have some pieces of each, but they all need to be made far more commercial-grade.
Prepared Statement of Leonard Kleinrock, Chairman of the NRENaissance Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation
What policies, standard-setting activities and research and development are necessary to support electronic commerce and other applications of the NII that industry cannot or will not undertake? … The key need is to motivate industry to opt to support a very general and flexible Open Data Network architecture.
A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Adresses of Objects on the Network
Any physical address may be subject to change with time: Hence we encourage the move to lasting names and directory services.
The 21st Century: Shopping
“The way I see things going, we’re going to be looking for everything on the Internet, we’ll be browsing for hours and ordering all kinds of products” … The future is in bulk and on the Net.
To Dream the Internetworking Dream
I want a portable, online all-the-time, intelligent valet that buys flowers, buys and sells stocks, arranges meetings, hunts up baseball statistics, doubles as a phone.
Prepared Statement of Leonard Kleinrock, Chairman of the NRENaissance Committee, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation
Setters of standards and developers of products must be linked by shared expectations for how the NII will evolve … Government has a role in fostering a greater degree of openness and interoperability than may otherwise emerge in a timely manner from industry-driven efforts.
To Dream the Internetworking Dream
The trick will be to allow the enterprises to move data into and out of company enterprise networks as freely as they do now internally. I believe that will happen in five years.