Friday, 14 March 2014

Steve Case: 25 Years Is Great, But What's Next for the Web?

From Mashable

When we started AOL in 1985, to learn about “the Internet” you needed to read science fiction or the predictions of futurists. I remember reading Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave — describing the evolution from the agriculture age to the industrial revolution and predicting the emergence of a third “electronic” revolution — like it was yesterday. At the time we launched, only 3% of U.S. households were online, and those early adopters averaged just one hour of weekly use.


Communication modems were viewed as "peripheral" devices — a non-core, optional, niche add-on for a .. Read More



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