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To: JohnM who wrote (202)	12/12/2002 5:55:52 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 603

Ted Nelson, Things to Come byte.com The inventor of hypertext forecasts the future, including the demise of the human race [ From Nov. '95. This is a little cruel, 10 year forecasts are pretty bogus as a general concept anyway. Poor Ted is probably destined to be forever Moses in the desert ] Players of the twenty-first century Microsoft has peaked. By 2000, it should be second to Netscape. Silicon Graphics will live on. So will Sun. Thinking Machines will make a comeback. Apple will be acquired by Wal-Mart. Quarterdeck will make it big, but I'm not sure what with. IBM will die a terrible death, possibly bankruptcy or being acquired by Quarterdeck. The data highway It will be a conglomerate of parts on an Internet-like model, with some fast priority lanes and something like the Clipper chip for encryption -- which everyone will bypass. But that doesn't matter, since it will let the government arrest whomever they choose, since we'll all be breaking the big, vague new law against everything. How computing technology will change the world In every possible way. But I find it hard to believe that the human race will survive to the year 2100.

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