Marc Andreessen

Over time – let’s say five to 10 years – the Internet will essentially be free. Everybody gets connected to it and it just gets correspondingly much more powerful.

Fiber-optic cable is theoretically capable of handling far in excess of anything we’re seeing today. Thirty-five Megabits is a trickle compared to what a single strand of fiber can do over time. As far as bandwidth, it is mostly the local loop to the home that is really the blockage point … General bandwidth is increasing in price performance or dropping in price faster even than microprocessors are. It’s by a factor of four or so every year.

Marc Andreessen

The entire infrastructure continues to grow. If there’s economic justification for that to happen, then all these activities can take place … The investment that MCI is making in infrastructure is directly helping the educational use to continue to expand.

Marc Andreessen

Commercialization of the Net is going to mean that investment is going to flow into it to expand the infrastructure, far in excess of what would have been possible otherwise. Because all these activities can take place in parallel, and because they enrich one another, the presence of the educational activities enhances the availability of the commercial services and vice versa. The whole thing should just spiral upward … The educational opportunities will be far greater than they would be in the absence of commercialization.

Marc Andreessen

It’s a huge small-business opportunity. It’s a useful opportunity for a number of reasons. For one, you can go global just like that; you are by default. Another implication is that you can have a presence that is equal to or superior to any major company … it’s going to be a tremendous innovation and lower the barrier for a lot of businesses.

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Marc Andreessen

The day when people can do one-set, two-set, three-set transactions spontaneously over the Net is the day when people can start offering information services. They can charge for them. There are many implications which flow from that scenario.

Marc Andreessen

They are going to provide nationwide coverage at extremely competitive rates. It’s going to be really revolutionary in terms of the number of people who will be going online. The introduction of Windows 95 is going to be another shot in the arm for the whole environment.

Marc Andreessen

[The Internet is] going to make a whole different world in terms of the leverage that large companies typically have, the distribution channels that companies typically have, because their size won’t matter much anymore.