IP: Metcalfe's Doom and Gloom on Video over the Internet

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:23:07 -0800
From: ari () es net (Ari Ollikainen)




        "...Video. One of two bad things will happen          
        with video over the Internet during 1996. 
          
        Either the Internet's attached computers,      
        operating systems, and applications software     
        will fail to deliver video, or they will succeed.    
        If they succeed, the packet-punctuated  
        pre-Asynchronous Transfer Mode Internet
        will fail to carry it. In either case, without
        video the Internet will lack the energy needed           
        to sustain its current expansion..."


                ----Bob Metcalfe, From the Ether, InfoWorld, 12/4/95
                   
        [Complete article predicting the Internet's collapse can be found
         at: http://www.infoworld.com/pageone/opinions/metcalf.htm ]