IP: Andreessen feature story

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: CommonGnd <CommonGnd () aol com>
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:50:06 EST
To: farber () central cis upenn edu
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Subject: Andreessen feature story
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Dear Dave,


I have been enjoying your listserv group for about a year. It's always
thought-provoking. I'd like to feed something back into the group as well:


I thought you and your readers might enjoy reading the 13 April 98 issue of
Business Week (posted 3 Apr); it has a feature article on Netscape's Marc
Andreessen as well as related stories on Netscape, the Net, Silicon Valley and
more. 


The address: www.businessweek.com/premium/15/b3573001.htm


Perhaps even more interesting than the harcopy version's feature article is
the online-edition-only's supplementary interview with Andreessen, which gets
underway as follows:


[Businessweek]  What's the big innovation opportunity that you're engaged in?


[Andreessen]  In 50 years or 100 years, every business and individual on the
planet 
is going to be interconnected with a network. We're in the early stages 
of building it. The kinds of things that happen and the kinds of 
opportunities that open up -- the entire computer industry and 
telecommunications industry and media industry are reorienting 
themselves toward it. It's a huge technology shift. It's a lot bigger 
than anything that came before -- including electricity -- by the time 
it's all over.


It's essentially creating a new world that is overlaid on top of the 
physical world. It is going to be where most of the very interesting 
things that happen in the worlds of business and entertainment and how 
we fundamentally live and work and play and learn are going to happen. 
It has extremely profound effects. It's deeply interesting from a 
technology standpoint and for what a technology company can do. It means 
that in our case, [creating] the ranges of software and services that 
need to be provided to get all these individuals hooked up and to get 
all these businesses hooked up, to get business happening online, and to 
make it easy for people to live and work online. Over time, [people 
will] be able to network not only personal computers, but a dizzying ar
ray of other devices -- anything with a sliver of silicon is going to be 
networked over the next couple of decades. 


The opportunities for innovation all spin out of that.... It's not 
splitting the atom or discovering a new planet. But it's a huge process 
that the entire world will be going through.
.......


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Best wishes,


Christopher Bray
Common Ground Communications Inc
Charlotte VT 05445 USA
(802) 425-4344
commongnd () aol com