On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Jeff Young wrote:
perhaps he's fishing for venture capital for something new and needs good press (or any press - or any press is good press). perhaps it has something to do with the internet :-)
Pay-per-view Internet services like "micro-money" transactions to access websites a la Ted Nelson's Xanadu and just generally a tiered structure of services so that the upper classes can pay more and use the bus lanes on the infobahn.... Read through the back issues of his column at http://www.infoworld.com if you really want to know what he has in mind. Personally, I think all those nickel-and-dime ideas went out when the videotext industry failed. Prodigy was the only one to survive using precisely the model of today's Internet. You pay an access fee and all the content-providers let you look at the content for free but sell ads all over the place to finance their websites. Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com