Telephone companies, computer firms, and public libraries will be under increasing pressure to provide low-cost or free access to computer networks. The emergence of computer networks also will require revisions in copyright laws and other forms of protection for those who produce books, articles, and movies.
More demographic balance in the online world is crucial … WIRE will help seed the world network with Net-savvy females and bring the electronic community more in balance with real-world demographics.
An advisory committee of 30 people will help the administration ‘to be very serious about the most important issues … The NII is part of a revolution changing how we work, live, play and will proceed in starts and fits like the early American new frontiers.
We’re facing the absolute depletion of Internet addresses in five years.
Eventually all marketers will be building relationships with their consumers using interactive media. It’s a given.
Real drivers for commercial use today center around developments such as ubiquitous access, good no-brainer software for common computer platforms, killer applications like the World Wide Web, effective low-overhead payment mechanisms for business transactions … and connected computer hosts and networks to really significant levels.
The biggest long-range problem is how the Internet will be managed. Before, it was sort of an insiders’ club and there was no formal structure. The effort now is to try to promote the Internet Society (a nonprofit organization formed this January) as an overall umbrella.
“For a good time, get online” may soon replace the more familiar graffiti scribbled in bathroom stalls around the world.
High-capacity uses such as HDTV are not going to happen … [I] hope bandwidth will get cheaper … the problems are going to be in the periphery of uses.
Increased commercial involvement would reduce costs to users through “increased competition and orders of efficiency.” … Government will work better in cyberspace. Cybrarians’ will work faster, better and cheaper and could have budgetary impact on governments’ operations.