[12227] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
NII and Reality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Stahlman (via RadioMail))
Tue May 10 13:33:00 1994
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 07:07:12 PDT
From: Mark Stahlman (via RadioMail) <stahlman@radiomail.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
To: EFDPMA@acm.org
Thank you for posting the agenda of the "Engineering the NII" conference.
I was wondering if there was any room for an open discussion at this event
of whether there really is anything that could properly be called an NII
(aside from a campaign slogan) and whether this rush of activity might
produce undesirable federal intervention in new market growth?
Since every major computer technology driven economic opportunity in the
past 30 years has come from startup companies, how are the startups being
represented at this conference? I'm a fairly well known analyst and
commentator on these issues and I'm very frustrated at the extremely low
level of reality awareness in much of the discussion around the NII.
For instance, who thinks that the NII (as opposed to other ongoing network
buildouts) will produce $300 billion in revenues? John Latta? Please help
me out here, I'm beginning to be very concerned about the bandwagon that's
being constructed for the Infobahn here.
Mark Stahlman
New Media Associates
New York City
stahlman@radiomail.net
