There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.