Transitions in Computer-Mediated Communication
Online literacy will grow in importance as a important component of education at many levels.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Internet Architect Gives Long-Term View
One of the goals of the National Research and Education Network is to determine the feasibility of gigabit networking. Everyone wants to use the new T-3 speeds and then jump to the (Synchronous Optical Network) OC-12 speeds.
Transitions in Computer-Mediated Communication
Legislation and codification of online behavior will be called for, but will be impossible to implement. There may be a major court case involving online activity and debate within international organizations about online behavior.
Transitions in Computer-Mediated Communication
Institutions will continue to move onto the Nets so as not to lose their power and influence to online counterparts. Net use for political activity will increase rapidly.
Internet Architect Gives Long-Term View
The traditional way of looking at TCP/IP and OSI would be that TCP/IP would go away and be replaced by OSI. That is clearly not going to happen. One cannot imagine a scenario of a pure transition from TCP/IP to OSI. But parts of the OSI work can be adopted by the Internet.
Transitions in Studying Computer-Mediated Communication
Large, highly-visible commercial ventures will continue to draw new commercial organizations to the Internet. Integration with the critical mass of users on the Internet will foster the rapid growth of this commercial activity
Transitions in Computer-Mediated Communication
A “killer app” for human-human interaction will emerge. This interface will be a well-done graphical user interface to text conferencing.
Transitions in Studying Computer-Mediated Communication
There will continue to be a a gradual increase in the recognition of online scholarship within the social-power structure of academia.
Transitions in Studying Computer-Mediated Communication
CMC scholars will continue to meld theoretical approaches from other disciplines to examine the experiences, expressions, and contexts of CMC possible on the Internet today.
Interview With Mark Poster: Community, New Media; Post-humanism
There certainly is a political problem in the dissemination of the Internet … I advocate an awareness of the importance of the Internet and call for a mobilization to ensure its accessibility to all, to configure the technology, within its inherent materiality, into a vehicle of open cultural creation.