Almost everything will have an Internet Protocol address – vending machines, your refrigerators, maybe toasters.
Predictor: Patrick, John
Prediction, in context:In an article in Telephony, Karen Egolf reported on an expert panel appearing at Internet World ’95 in Boston. The panel was titled “The Internet in Year 2010.” John Patrick, vice president of Internet applications at IBM., commented on how networked devices would be everywhere in the future: ”Almost everything will have an Internet Protocol address – vending machines, your refrigerators, maybe toasters. We’ll all have IP addresses and that’s what’s going to make up the Internet: the interconnection of devices.”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Telephony
Title, headline, chapter name: The Year 2010: Internet to the Toaster
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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