WWW7 Virtual Edition - 10:00 am Friday 17th April 1998

Paul Saffo - Director Institute for the Future - in a crowd pleasing
speach to delegates at WWW7, provided a novel insight into the
future potential of the Web and encouraged delegates to "look to
the mountain tops ... and try to get there before Bill Gates."

 

"Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley sleep like babies - they
sleep for two hours and then wake up crying."

 

During the session, Paul discussed the relevance of "disintermediation"
to the Web and posed the point that what we are really beginning to
see is the emergence of "disinter-remediation" - a dynamic process
that creates new business niches for new players in an ever more
complexified commercial cyberspace.

 
 

"It is better to get further away from your customers in the
right, rather than getting closer in the wrong way."

 

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