Most Important Future Directions.

• Need to move from READ ONLY to collaborative environment.
  • Is there any way of controlling who publishes what?
• Global Bill of Rights to establish the rights of users in Commercial Environment
  • CommerceNet will use digital signatures and Encryption
  • Credit card transactions, legally enforcable contracts, audit trails, currency exchange.
  • Concepts such as "e-money", and "You have to pay for this picture" coming. Untraceable transactions!
• Access to the Web more important than to printers ?
  • Advertising ?
• Winsock 1.1/2.0 + MS Windows 4.0 and NT will have great impact.
• Integration of http, network news (nntp) and mail (smtp).
• 3D Cyberspace and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) being actively developed using HyTime.
  • Low cost "active" 3D glassesfor Windows or Macintosh systems.
• "Deep Searching" and Persistent Naming need urgent solution.
• Network overload addressed via Prospero and proxy requests.
• Network agents and delegation: General Magic and "Telescript" ?
• Photographs of the "wise men"