Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age |
The increasing incidence of reporting of lost private personal records poses a serious threat to consumer confidence -- and to vendor profits. Yet it is the right thing to do because it is forcing companies to clean up their acts. |
The Internet has many fathers but he was one of the chief fathers. |
The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet community and the technical community. |
The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations. |
The simple truth is that it will get better, but it won't go back to being what we thought was normal before, ... That was nutty. |
There are also computers with Windows that stick. |
There are not going to be giant revelations. We're just telling the truth. |
These two sessions are the part of PC Forum where the users really take charge. Our general sessions get active audience participation, but in our breakout sessions there is no audience. The breakouts this year are devoted to the edgiest areas -- content and identity -- where users really understand why they want to take charge, and want better tools and services for doing so. Many of our attendees are active developers as well as users of such tools -- but they have been so busy working they haven't had the chance to meet or check out each other's work. |
This changes the balance of power. |
Today's announcement marks a major milestone in the joint efforts of the public and private sectors to bring Internet users the benefits of real competition in registration services in the most popular Internet domains -- .com, .net, and .org. |
We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board. |
We try to reflect Internet opinion and not go off half-cocked. |
We will have higher prices for better services and lower prices for less quality. |
We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types. |