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John’s first appearance before a DACS audience was in October 1994, when he demonstrated IBM’s powerful and robust operating system, OS/2 Warp (Well, you can’t call them all!) But in subsequent years, as he shifted from spokesman for his company’s products to Web ambassador, John’s career has achieved warp speed, and he has become a savvy commentator on the latest technology and high priest of cyberspace. Retired after 35 years at IBM, John is now president of Attitude LLC, and celebrated author of Net Attitude, a popular book on Internet culture. As an Internet visionary, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry’s most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and now the chairman of the Global Internet Project, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the Internet Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Working Group on Authentication at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the board of directors of Jupitermedia and Knovel Corporation and has been an advisor to IntraLinks, Neoteny, Space.com, and ThirdAge Media. He is also president of The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Foundation. John believes the next generation of the Internet is about to make today’s Internet seem primitive. His presentation and technology demonstrations will bring to life his vision of the characteristics the next generation of the Internet will have a network that will be fast, always on, everywhere, natural, easy, intelligent and trusted. John will provide an exciting vision about the power and the potential of the Internet and how it will provide significant advances in order to meet the increasing expectations of an on demand world. He will discuss the key opportunities that are just beginning to surface, and the potential limitations that may stand in the way. More importantly, he will offer a visionary glimpse, from his book Net Attitude, of the future beyond the Internet as we know it. The General Meeting will take place on December 7, 2003, at Danbury Hospital Auditorium. The events will start at 7 p.m. with computer related questions and answers, followed by brief club announcements and the annual business meeting and Board election. The featured presentation will start at 8 pm. All General Meetings are free and open to the public. More information is found at www.dacs.org. |
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At our December
7 General Meeting, we will welcome back