Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.