Beware the Net-heads
Once its official reports are online, a state government may decide to save money by canceling the paper versions. And every dollar a school spends on computer technology is a dollar that won’t be spent on books.
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Beware the Net-heads
I can still read the books I bought in the 1970s, but my Hewlett Packard 9830 files might as well be in Sanskrit. In the same way, Stoll cautions, reference works published on CD-ROM may be unreadable in a generation or two. Librarians, beware.
The Internet as an Agentof Creative Collision
A collaborative filtering system would allow software agents to take into account the opinions of large numbers of people – friends, co-workers, professional opinion leaders and members of other communities – to determine the relevancy of new documents to the agents’ owners. By observing correlations among peoples’ opinions, such agents are expected to offer predictive data without having to solve the much more difficult problems associated with understanding causality or why a particular new document, such as a news report, might be interesting to the agent’s owner.
Beware the Net-heads
The medium is being oversold, our expectations have become bloated, and there’s damned little critical discussion of the implications of an online world.
The Internet and the Anti-Net
The Internet’s incredibly low cost of distribution almost assures that it will remain free of advertising-based commerce. Nonetheless, if lobbying by network idealists succeeds in derailing or co-opting efforts to build an advertising-based Internetwork, then surely commercial interests will conspire with government officials to destroy or perhaps worse, to take over the Internet by political and economic means.
The Internet and the Anti-Net
Two distinct, interconnected publicly accessible digital internetworks are likely to emerge, which is surely better than just one. One of the future internetworks will grow out of today’s Internet, whose roots are in the technology and scientific/academic communities … The other great internetwork will grow out of the technology and mass communications industries, especially cable and broadcast industries. The “Anti-Net” will rely on advertising revenue to recoup the cost of the infrastructure necessary to create cheap, high-speed bandwidth.
Web Warriors
The Internet is a revolution, jump-started by hypermedia Web browsers, that has the potential to radically transform not just the way individuals go about conducting their business with each other, but also the very essence of what it means to be a human in society.
See No Evil
It’s the beginning of the innovation, and we are witnessing experimentation and play. These sorts of activities will fuel the growth of the next stage of the medium’s development, where it starts to become “useful.”
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Microsoft and other major companies will attempt to dominate the Internet, building toll booths up and down the information highway and turning it into yet another broadcast medium.
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Putting the Internet into people’s houses is going to be really what the information superhighway is all about, not digital convergence in the set-top box. All that’s going to do is put the video rental stores out of business and save me a trip to rent my movie.