Digital video news that can be customized might be a more compelling offering. This is going to reinvent the news industry.
Predictor: Saffo, Paul
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, reporter John Markoff writes about a proposed plan to send digital video on the Internet, quoting futurist Paul Saffo. He writes:”One analyst, Paul Saffo, said that ‘while many people in the computing and telecommunications industries were assuming that movies-on-demand would help finance a range of new interactive digital services to the home, digital video news that can be customized might be a more compelling offering. This is going to reinvent the news industry,’ said Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future, an industry research and consulting firm in Menlo Park.”
Biography:Paul Saffo was the director of a decades-old research and forecasting foundation called the Institute for the Future, located in Menlo Park, Calif., in the 1990s. This Institute was a non-profit think tank that consulted for a large number of businesses and government entities, including telecommunications and consumer companies. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: March 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Oracle Plan May Enable PC Users to Customize News
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/impact/w95/RN/mar17news/Merc-news-oracle.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry