The Xanadu plan proposes a single unified world of data to which everyone will have point-and-click access from whatever computer, videogame or multimedia player they want to use … Once your materials are on the network, anyone with a modem can buy a copy and make connections to it that make it even more interesting or useful for others. Each time material from your document is bought by anybody, you can get a royalty on that fragment.
MCI Communications and The News Corporation … intend to launch a global online newspaper … the electronic newspaper, the first of its kind, would be available to users of the Internet, the worldwide network of computers.
The information age will move from dawn to full daylight. And our world will be changed. But probably not by Netscape … When a clearly superior browser becomes available, people will replace their Netscape browser just the way they got it – with the touch of a button.
The next Bill Gates is not Marc Andreessen … There will be many browsers, hundreds of them … Netscape is but one awning on the Virtual Boulevard of Digital Cafes. Java is the coffee.
Three computer science students from Berkeley hacking code late at night will create a Java word processing program. Let’s call it “NetWord.” … Suddenly, the OS that controls the CPU on your desktop is a legacy of an old paradigm … This means that Microsoft is now a severely overpriced personal productivity tools applications vendor.
[Bill Joy] prophesied that around 1995 everything would change due to a “breakthrough” which could not even be imagined in 1990. [Forbes ASAP columnist George] Gilder believes that the breakthrough was the World Wide Web.
Marc Andreessen of Netscape will someday supplant Bill Gates as the most powerful man in the computing world.
In the future it will not be necessary to use any specific type of operating system in order to take advantage of widely available software. Furthermore, a user’s software could reside anywhere on a network, not just on the machines where it would be used.
I don’t see a Netscape-controlled future for the Net. The Internet is too dynamic and innovative. No single company will control everything.
You’re going to have HTML documents containing all these different types of things: Java objects, Macromedia Director files, different types of audio formats, video formats, portable document formats – just about everything.