The Parent Trap
The really serious problems are not about computers. They are about resistance to revising concepts of childhood (including modes of parenting and schooling) shaped in a bygone epoch.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Good Clean PICS
One of the greatest hopes of the Internet was that, in the process of opening up their countries to new commercial opportunities, totalitarian regimes would also open their people to new ideas. Simply put, PICS could be the most effective global censorship technology ever designed.
Investors Scramble for a Piece of Netscape; Opening Price for Money-Losing Company’s Shares Went from $14 to $28
Microsoft looms as a potential threat to Netscape’s long-term place in the market.
Investors Scramble for a Piece of Netscape; Opening Price for Money-Losing Company’s Shares Went from $14 to $28
Institutional investors think Netscape could be the Microsoft of the Internet, and they’re willing to bet on it.
Serious Money Heading to Internet Companies
The premise for the new company, called @home, is that regular telephone lines do not have the bandwidth, a combination of speed and data capacity, to carry interactive services that include graphics and video. Cable, on the other hand, will be able to transmit 10 million digital bits a second, or nearly 1,000 times the speed of a PC modem over a regular telephone line.
Netscape’s Rise Is Getting Scary: It Shows No Sign of Slowing as Stock Soars 21 1/2 Yesterday
It’s possible that the Internet in fact has been under-hyped. I think we’re witnessing the creation of a brand new medium that will possibly be more important than network television.
Books of the Times
Surely storage and delivery systems will improve to where a movie could be sent to a home computer to be viewed at leisure. Surely the electronic book of the future will be wieldier than a laptop computer. Surely badly designed computers will go the way of the Edsel.
Books of the Times
Internet hustlers invade our communities with computers … The key ingredient of their silicon snake oil is a technocratic belief that computers and networks will make a better society. [But] the most important interactions in life happen between people, not between computers.
Millennium Prophesies
Once we really have the bandwidth for the next generation of the Internet, we will be able to do pretty much everything from home. By 2000, we’ll be able to communicate by videotapes. You’ll be able to connect yourself to the University of Tokyo and take courses there.
Millennium Prophesies
The Internet will be in large schools and every good business, just like today we have public fax machines down at stores and restaurants. Many of the things that you use the telephone/fax port for will be done through Internet-class technology.