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I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
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We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
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What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
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First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
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But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
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Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
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I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
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The Internet reflects the societies in which we live, and so the content on the Net and some of the abuses that you see on the Net are reflections of that.
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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
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I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
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If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
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Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
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I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
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