= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?
The future multilingualism of the Net will be determined by market forces. At present there's no political will to enforce multilingualism. But it is in the commercial interest of the content providers to have material in local languages. At least in Europe. For small languages in Africa, there is no market potential.
= What is your best experience with the Internet?
I have no illusions about the Internet. I can't remember any positive exception to that.
= And your worst experience?
The worst thing I have seen on the Internet recently is the way thousands of people added the logo of the Belgrade radio B92 to their websites, without asking what it was and what politics it represented. In fact it was already broadcasting from NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) aircraft. The campaign shows how easy it is to manipulate the new media scene…
FRANCOIS VADROT (Paris)
#Founder, chairman and managing director of FTPress (French Touch Press), a cybermedia company
*Interview of May 20, 2000 (original interview in French)
= What is FTPress?