Interactive TV is what has imploded. We may very well see the merging of the ideas of interactive TV and the Web as we get broadband TCP/IP broadcasts via TV cables. We’ll see a natural merging of the technology, but it’ll be far better and far more powerful than people were thinking interactive TV would be in 1993. You’re really going to have the opportunity to interact with it.
Predictor: Parent, Kip
Prediction, in context:The Edge.org Web site section titled “The Third Culture” has a profile of Kip Parent that carries a quotation of this statement he made in 1995: ”A lot of corporate guys are saying that the Web is going to implode and that 40 percent of the companies on the Web today will be gone in six months. I think they are wrong. Interactive TV is what has imploded. We may very well see the merging of the ideas of interactive TV and the Web as we get broadband TCP/IP broadcasts via TV cables. We’ll see a natural merging of the technology, but it’ll be far better and far more powerful than people were thinking interactive TV would be in 1993. You’re really going to have the opportunity to interact with it.”
Biography:Kip Parent, the former electronic sales manager of Silicon Graphics, was the founder of Pantheon Interactive. He originated and launched Silicon Surf, SGI’s award-winning site. It was featured in dozens of books and magazine articles, and set Web-building standards for many people. It was named “best site” by Interactive Age in 1995. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: Edge.org
Title, headline, chapter name: The Third Culture: Kip Parent
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/parent.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Ritz, Nathan M.