Text, pictures, movies, software, designs and much more would move easily and rapidly over this substrate. By speeding up many to today’s tasks and making possible an almost unlimited number of new activities, this infrastructure should improve our economy and our way of life.
Predictor: Dertouzos, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for Technology Review, MIT researcher/administrator Michael Dertouzos writes: ”The vision I have is of an information infrastructure that would make it easy for the computers in every home, office, school and factory to interconnect. Text, pictures, movies, software, designs and much more would move easily and rapidly over this substrate. By speeding up many to today’s tasks and making possible an almost unlimited number of new activities, this infrastructure should improve our economy and our way of life.”
Biography:Michael Dertouzos was director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the author of “The Unfinished Revolution.” He led a project intended to make computers adapt to people. He outlined a comprehensive proposal for a national information “infrastructure” in a 1991 article for Technology Review. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Technology Review
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Information Marketplace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web2.infortrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/599/939/33335322w2/purl=rcl
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