If This is the Information Superhighway, Where Are the Rest Stops?

Within a year no serious candidate will be able to campaign without the Internet.

The Future of the Internet

Proxy servers are a key software technology. Without them, large companies won’t hook up: security; content control; traffic control.

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve JobsFounder, NeXT Computer.

I do expect the Web to be a worldwide phenomenon, distributed fairly broadly. But right now I think it’s a U.S. phenomenon that’s moving to be global.

The Future of the Internet

Providers like Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, etc., are in big trouble if they don’t adopt an infrastructure that uses the Internet model.

They Let Their Fingers Do the Talking

Business on the Net are going to be based on these electronic communities, and the forum moderators are absolutely crucial to building them.

Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems

Does the hacker ethic reflect a growing force in society that stands for greater sharing of resources and information – a reaffirmation of basic values in our constitution and laws? It is important that we examine the differences between the standards of hackers, systems managers, users, and the public. These differences may represent breakdowns in current practices, and may present new opportunities to design better policies and mechanisms for making computer resources and information more widely available.

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve JobsFounder, NeXT Computer.

One of the things that’s essential is that the government continue to fund the Internet as a public trust, as a public facility and remove any of these ridiculous notions of privatizing it that have been brought up. I don’t think they’re going to fly, thankfully.

State Plays Catch-up in Computerizing Legislation

It is very clear we are at a major cusp in how technology impacts our society. The new technologies will not only change the face of society, but clearly, irresistibly will enhance the democratic process.

Mind Games with William Gibson

[Net advertisers are] inventing the equivalent of the sandwich board but it’s going to get much more intense. I got tired of all that talk about the information highway. It reminds me of a shopping mall, and malls have something to do with privatization of public space.

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve JobsFounder, NeXT Computer.

It is going radically change the way goods and services are discovered, sold and delivered, not only in this country but eventually all over the world.