“Anyone who gets online eventually has to ask themselves if it’s enriching their lives or taking away from other things, particularly if what you want is a network of people.”
Gail Williams, conferencing manager of the Well, responding to a study that contends time spent online makes people sadder, Wired News, 2 September 1998
“I feel the Internet is going to become commercialized and there’s nothing that can be done to stop it. What corporations can do is minimize the annoyance.”
Bernard Ferguson, CEO of the Pop-Up Exchange ad network, which allows Web sites to add grating ads that appear in their own windows, offering a compelling reason why his company should not exist, News.com, 31 August 1998
“Even when they work out all the problems with video on demand, it won’t be like a light switch being turned off for the video store.”
Mark Wattles, CEO of Hollywood Entertainment, the runner-up video chain that recently invested in tech cred by buying Reel.com, on the future of bricks and mortars in retail, San Jose Mercury News, 30 August 1998
“Things that think want to link.”
Nicholas “Dr. Seuss” Negroponte, director of MIT’s Media Lab, on the unbearable rightness of TCP/IP’ing, The Wall Street Journal, 27 August 1998
“We are the best example of how the Internet is going to change everything.”
Cisco CEO John Chambers, whose company specializes in Internet routers, devices that change money in customers’ pockets into revenues for Cisco, Business Week, 24 August 1998
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