Collapse Quote by Robert Metcalfe

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

— Robert Metcalfe

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…

— Robert Metcalfe

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

— Reed Hastings

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the…

— James Howard Kunstler

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have…

— Tim O'Reilly

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a…

— Anonymous

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will…

— Tyler Cowen

Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would…

— Barry Diller

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

— Najib Razak

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

— Rupert Murdoch

When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking,…

— Tyler Cowen

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any…

— Charles Platt