"The truth is I haven't the faintest idea where (the World Wide Web) is going to be in five years' time. When the Web as an information space becomes an assumption, then it will be time for the next revolution. . . . It will happen within the Web. It may be mobile code. It may be robots working for you. It may be people finding ways of interacting politically." (Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, speaking at the Boston World Wide Web conference in December.)
"We're at the threshold of the next major phase of computing ...network-centric computing." -- Lou
Gerstner, IBM Chairman and CEO, speaking at Fall COMDEX, a major computer industry trade show.
For the full text of this excellent keynote address, click here.
"Microsoft's Internet announcement last week is like Windows itself--a blitz of stuff that, in its entirety, mere mortals don't need or want to understand. The Windows of the future looks like the Windows of the past--a complex, frustrating, and fragile computer ecosystem." --John Dodge, Senior Executive News Editor, PC Week, 12-11-95.
(Dodge was referring to the announcement that the next version of Windows will include a personal information manager, drivers for ISDN communications, and tighter Internet integration.)
We recently called a vendor's technical support hotline with a question about configuring his motherboard for a 120 MegaHertz Pentium chip. The manual that came with the board was unclear. We described the problem in detail, and then said, "So how do we set the jumpers to accommodate this chip?" His answer: "Uh, what brand of Pentium is that?"
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