They must realize that they have to cooperate more intensively than before: The stakes are extremely large; there is too much to learn and events are moving too rapidly; the resources and degree of stakeholder coordination involved are both very high.
Expected capacity, because it represents how resources are allocated when they are in demand, represents a rational basis for cost allocation.
There are going to be phenomenal breakthroughs as we go into parallel computing technology, and I believe these will be beyond our wildest imagination. It will be a hot growth area because of the fact that our strength, as Americans, is in our diversity and entrepreneurial spirit. Traditionally, we have always been strong in invention and development, but not necessarily in implementation.
The trend toward working at home will escalate … more and more people are going out on their own. They don’t want to work for large companies anymore. They are going to run businesses out of their offices at home.
Computers, like other technological creations, create undesirable as well as desirable possibilities. We now have a greater capacity to track and monitor individuals without their knowledge, to develop more heinous weapons systems, to eliminate the need for human contact in many activities.
While the mechanisms in the Internet seem to work today, the most significant service enhancement would be some means to limit the worst-case behavior of each user, so that the resulting overall service was more stable, and some means to distinguish and separately serve users with very different transfer objectives, so that each could be better satisfied.
As the number and scale of knowledge domains involved in a given CSCW [consumer -supported cooperative work] Web increases, so does the need for online interoperability.
The video telephone and the transfer of information into home and office via communication networks … will change the face of communication as we now know it.
Telecommunications, technology, and computer software companies will be the entrepreneurs of the ’90s and beyond, making these fields potential gold mines for investors.
I’ve watched the Internet grow from its beginning … I would never have imagined that 20 years later we’d have such a plethora of different network technologies. Even more astonishing is the enormous number of independently managed but nonetheless interconnected networks that make up the current network. And somewhat beyond comprehension is that it seems to work.