I Am An Optimist By Nature And

The Computer Would Do Anything You Programmed It To Do.

There's An Old Maxim That Says, 'things That Work Persist,' Which Is Why There's Still Cobol Floating Around.

My Belief Is That There Will Be Very Large Numbers Of Internet-enabled Devices On The Net - Home Appliances, Office Equipment, Things In The Car And Maybe Things That You Carry Around. And Since They're All On The Internet And Internet-enabled, They'll Be Manageable Through The Network, And So We'll See People Using The Net And Applications On The Net To Manage Their Entertainment Systems, Manage Their, You Know, Office Activities And Maybe Even Much Of Their Social Lives Using Systems On The Net That Are Helping Them Perform That Function.

Privacy May Actually Be An Anomaly.

Their Internet Usage Is Growing Very Rapidly, And Even They Can Do The Math: If Everyone In China Needed An Ipv4 Address - Just One - This Country Would Use Up One Third Of The Entire Public Ip Address Space.