He said that when people ask how one can make money on the Internet, they're really asking the wrong question. That's like asking how you can make money on the telephone or the interstate highway system. He's right, of course. The Internet is not a business opportunity, although many will use it for business. Instead, it is part of our infrastructure, and it will become an increasingly important part.
People use the telephone and the highway system for all manner of purposes.
Similarly with the Internet. Incidentally, Jim is not best known as a former Stanford professor. You're more likely to have heard of him as a founder of both Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications. Our major unkept promise remains our Tech Watch page, and we're very much aware of this remaining gap at BraveNewWorkWorld . We've put this on the back burner in order to concentrate on other things, but we haven't forgotten about it.