Java and JavaCard is the only real open intersectorial standard. We have been building systems of computers for twenty-five years from a common set of concepts, but now, most of the concepts are changing, and at the same time. This is a major shift, based on netcentric programs based on Java . New metaphors are the basis for new discontinuities. Telephone' or 'television' or 'radio' or 'Walkman' are not enough.
Major advances begin with a new metaphor.