Directions for Comuter-Mediated Scholarship | Imagining the Internet

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

It is going to destroy vast layers of our economy and make available a presence in the marketplace for very small companies, one that is equal to very large companies.

Directions for Computer-Mediated Scholarship

This fusing of communication with computer networks is creating “an infrastructure that will profoundly reshape our economy and society.”

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

Computers are turning into communications devices and ultimately we’re spending more and more of the cycles of the computer to not only make it easy to use but to make it easy to communicate. The Web is the missing piece of the puzzle which is really going to power that vision much farther forward.

The Third Culture: Kip Parent

Interactive TV is what has imploded. We may very well see the merging of the ideas of interactive TV and the Web as we get broadband TCP/IP broadcasts via TV cables. We’ll see a natural merging of the technology, but it’ll be far better and far more powerful than people were thinking interactive TV would be in 1993. You’re really going to have the opportunity to interact with it.

Dialing Without Numbers

Internet voice traffic has its problems … But as Net bandwidth grows, more and more such “parasitic” calls will join the traffic. In the long term they may force phone companies to lower prices to compete.