Myron Kreidler: “there's an old expression that I think applies very well to the future of software: ``We ain't seen nothin' yet.'' Both…”

“there's an old expression that I think applies very well to the future of software: ``We ain't seen nothin' yet.'' Both the administration and Congress have set forth a policy to encourage the development of an information highway, or national information infrastructure. The tremendous restructuring we see going on throughout the communications and computer industries is substantially based on the potential of that highway. Microsoft, for example, is spending $100 million a year on research and development that won't yield products for 5 years. The traffic of the information highway will be the digital 1's and 0's of the computer. Pictures, words, and sounds all will be converted to bits and bytes for movement among computers, telephones, television, and other elements of the high-technology world. What's going to make the highway work is the software that will make the lightning-fast decisions on locating, directing and storing the information on the highway. Consider interactive television, likely to be one of the main components of the information highway. Interactive television has the potential to offer much more than just improved television.”