There are and will be problems with digital publishing on the Internet, problems that will call for fresh new goods and services. Or, in business terms, there are market segments emerging and fortunes to be made.
Predictor: Arnett, Nick
Prediction, in context:In his 1994 online essay “Massively Parallel Wetware,” Nick Arnett wrote:”If personal computers and the Internet indeed are increasing and will continue to increase the availability of relevant, diverse points of view, at least to the computer literati for the present, and if this will in fact be a positive agent of change in a world whose popular communications is dominated by a handful of self-serving media organization, then there must opportunities for developing related products and services. This is to say that there are and will be problems with digital publishing on the Internet, problems that will call for fresh new goods and services. Or, in business terms, there are market segments emerging and fortunes to be made.”
Biography:Nick Arnett was president of Multimedia Computing Corp., the leading market research and consulting firm tracking multimedia technologies and markets, from 1988 through August of 1994. He later became the World-Wide Web product manager at Verity Inc. Earlier in the 1980s, he was a journalist with publications including InfoWorld and American City Business Journals. He was author of “The Internet and the Anti-net: Two Public Internetworks are Better than One.” (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: Essay: Massively Parallel Wetware
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet as an Agent of Creative Collision
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.mccmedia.com/html/wetware.html
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