From ComputerWorld:
LAN technology recently passed a milestone — it’s been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past.
“Comparing the present environment to our original vision, the temptation is huge to say that we foresaw all this,” commented Bob Metcalfe, one of the inventors of Ethernet (by far the best-selling LAN protocol) and now a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Mass. “But I will resist and say, ‘duh, wow, look what happened.'”