X-INTERNET

X Internet offers several important advantages over the Web:

1) It rides Moore's Law -- the wide availability of cheap, powerful, low real-estate processing;

2) it leverages ever dear bandwidth -- once the connection is made, a small number of bits will be exchanged, unlike the Web where lots of pages are shuttled out to the client; and

3) X Internet will be far more peer-to-peer -- unlike the server-centric Web.

This scenario could be marred by two threats: viruses and lack of standards. Once executables start to move fluidly through the Net, viruses will have perfect conditions to propagate. Standards, or rather the lack thereof, will block the quick arrival of X Internet. I can't see Microsoft, Sun, IBM, or other traditionalists setting the standards. The Web-killer's design will emerge from pure research, academe, or open source -- as did the Web.

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