On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Brent Eades wrote:
> Had a meeting today with some gov't folks regarding an intranet project
> I'm doing for them, and goodness it got kind of absurd after awhile:
> couldn't we (the net community) have picked a better name than 'intranet'
> for networks that are internal versions of the 'internet'??
On that topic, Nicholas Petreley (InfoWorld columnist) recently asked
for predictions. Here's what I sent him. The fourth one relates
to your comments.
> Okay, here are a few especially cynical ones:
>
> - Massive trade shows like Comdex will continue to draw huge crowds
> even though the same vendor information is available 24x7 from anywhere
> in the world from the web. Remarkably, businesses will continue to
> pay for their employees to go off on these junkets so that they
> can schmooze with vendors and collect tote bags.
>
> - Many, *many* IT organizations will doggedly try to deploy NT 2000
> (or whatever it's called this week) in order to provide baseline
> Internet/computing services to their customers. They will spend inordinate
> sums of money and time desperately trying to make it work rather
> than just downloading Linux, installing it, booting it, and going home.
>
> - A real live human being will actually become a real dead human being
> while waiting on hold on a technical support hotline.
>
> - Whoever thought up "intranet" and "extranet" will think up another
> _____net term, providing yet another buzzword for presentations and
> confusing everyone's spellcheckers. We should find this person
> and duct-tape their keyboard to the ceiling.
>
> - A television network will launch a prime-time show consisting
> entirely of video pulled from webcams.
>
> - The debate over control of Internet namespace will take several
> steps upward in professionalism when it is agreed to settle it
> in a tag-team wrestling match.
>
> - Not content with animated GIFs, frames, audio, Java, and
> every HTML tag in existence, someone will come up with yet another
> way to bloat their web content so that accessing their site requires
> a 30 Mbyte browser, 41 plug-ins, a T-3, and a Beowulf cluster.
> "Wired" will give this site rave reviews.
>
> - In 2000, widespread panic and hysteria will sweep the country;
> riots, looting, arson, and other forms of civil unrest will create
> disorder on a scale...oh, wait. Sorry. Mixed up "computing
> industry predictions" file with "President Gingrich" file.
Rich Kulawiec / [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
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