All hands rise.
The otherwise adult room breaks into a cacophony of bizarre screeching. The man with the questions is Robert Metcalfe, one of the inventors of the internet, a founder of 3COM, and now a professional pundit for International Data Group. He is speaking to about 100 members of the MIT Club of Dallas, a group that feels more comfortable than most when the conversation drifts to megahertz and bandwidth. Predicting the future of the internet isn't what we should be doing. It isn't happening as fast as some of the hype.