[9396] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet/ISOC/Cabbages and Kings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Mon Jan 3 22:35:14 1994
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 20:34:46 -0700 (MST)
From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Roger Bohn <Rbohn@ucsd.edu> said:
> At 3:28 PM 1/3/94 -0500, Vinton G. Cerf wrote:
> > The Internet has become a global phenomenon and, in a very
> > short time, caught the attention of the business sector,
> > education, libraries, and the general public. Dealing with
> > all the attention is a major challenge and charting technical
> > direction vital - the IETF has a critical role to play in
> > all of this and I hope we will collectively prove equal to
> > the challenge.
>
> Beware of reporters bearing gifts.
>
> I have no desire to fan the discussion on ISOC, but I am beginning to
> notice (unfortunate) parallels to the situation of:
>
> Artificial Intelligence and expert systems in about 1985,
> Biotech in about 1989.
> Neural networks today?
And I'm noticing parallels to the situation of:
PCs cooked up in garages in the mid-1970s,
Service stations, strip malls and drive-in theaters in the 1950s, and
Small fleets of galleons sailing westward in the 1500s...
The Internet "hype" is actually lagging the explosion of the Internet as a
non-academic reality, and is not the shock wave preceding dreams of
commercialization so much as the turbulence in the wake of change.
Ross
