Firms Jockey for Online Reward; Internet Develops as Virtual Shopping Mall
Businesses that take the time to develop the Internet as a sales tool, he says, will then have a strategic advantage over their off-line competitors.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Clipper Chip Doomed? It’s ‘Hopeless’ to Try to Control Encrypted Internet Traffic, ITU is Told
It is not possible to control this … It’s hopeless to try … I’d be surprised to see [the Clipper Chip] survive.
Net Takes Wrong Turn
It is confusing, and information overload is a major problem. There is no central index to easily find information, receiving graphic images is frustratingly slow and there is a serious lack of security. Still those are kinks that will be solved as the technology evolves,
Marc Andreessen
If the mechanisms and the technology are compelling enough, consumer behavior will change over time.
Marc Andreessen
There are lots of potential negatives for individuals. It’s going to mean wrenching changes, I think. The technology itself: no negatives. The impact on people: it depends. It’s going to continue to change the way the work force is put together, the activities that people undertake, the amount of change people have to be undergoing to stay current. It’s going to challenge the education system in order to keep up. It’s going to have a whole series of impacts like that. The sheer rate of change, assuming it continues to increase, is going to start to get pretty severe.
Marc Andreessen
Ten years from now I would like to think … [there will be] multi-megabit data access just about everywhere, including wireless; the price of multiprocessors should have plummeted by a lot … You’re going to get megabits of data while you’re eating, and you are not even going to think twice about it. I don’t think we even have the slightest idea of what that’s going to mean.
Taking Care of Business
No communications medium or consumer electronics technology has ever grown as quickly; not the fax machine, not even the PC. At this rate, within two years the citizens of cyberspace will outnumber all but the largest nations.
Distance-Learning Essay #3
To absorb information is not enough. The world could be run by computers if all that were needed were raw data. To be able to make sense out of information, to be able to analyze, to be able to process information and maybe come out with a new conclusion, this is the true value of education … People, like Dvorak, are presuming that technology can be thrown at the problem of education and will automatically provide better results. This is far from the case.
Marc Andreessen
No use in government setting standards. It would be one of the worst things that could happen because the pace of the technology and its innovation is happening so fast. If the government were actually able to deal with that, which in fact it is not, it would completely stall innovation. Government sets standards that don’t work.
Distance-Learning Essay #3
Papers composed of cut-and-paste excerpts from online services and CD-ROMs are the future of education. None of this should be considered plagiarism, either. In fact, I don’t see why the student can’t just turn in something written by someone else so long as the other person’s name is cited … The student of the future is not the same as an Oxford Scholar of 1895, true. Fact is, the Oxford student would not be able to compete with the computer-augmented student of the future. Times change and we have to change with them.