Asked to sum up their feelings about the future at SCO Forum, five of the industry’s top brains offered a few pearls of wisdom and unsettling warnings. Netscape Communications Corp’s director of technology Martin Haeberli had bad news for those of you struggling to adjust your lives and watches to Internet time: there’s no danger of going too fast, he said and gave us a new Internet synonym: externet, the opposite of intranet. SunSoft Inc’s Rob Gingell, after predicting a major computing disaster before the end of the century, left us with the prediction that if you can become secure with uncertainty you’ll probably become successful. Basically, everything you think you know about the future of the Internet is probably wrong.
