[116] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Net use visions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Smith)
Mon Nov 12 00:56:31 1990
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 21:41:48 PST
From: Brad Smith <brad@terra.ucsc.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
I'm curious what people see as the services to be made available
over a commercialized net both now, and in the future (5 years
out)? Has there been any discussion of what uses a network with no
restrictions on message content would be put to? Thoughts I come
up with are:
- traditional computer network uses (boot and file service,
Xwindows, mail, ftp, telnet, usenet news, online databases,
white pages, etc.)
- audio/video (music, videos, tele-conferencing, library
access, ...),
- network service applications (travel planning, entertainment
information and reservations, accounting services, banking
services, educational services, ...)
- administrative (voting, taxes, access to public records,
access to governmental records, government services (licenses,
fees, etc.), college applications, ...).
Are any of these totally out of line? When talking of "commercial
services" on the network, what do people think of?
Thanks,
Brad Smith
brad@cis.ucsc.edu
PS - In case it matters to someone, this isn't totally idle curiosity...
I'm trying to write an article on this.
