I don’t think that the human race has seen anything in the long run that’s going to impact it like the Web even since Henry Ford rolled the first Model T off the production line.
Predictor: Adams, Steve
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in Denver’s major daily newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, Price Colman interviews Steve Adams of Online Systems Services. Colman writes: ”You can hardly turn around these days without getting tangled up in the Web – the World Wide Web, that is. The give-away: a cyberspace address that includes what appears to be gibberish: ‘http://www.etc.etc.’ As with everything in the acronym-crazy, high-tech world, those letters stand for something – ‘http’ signifies hyper-text transfer protocol – and www indicates a site on the World Wide Web, a 2-year-old phenomenon that’s doubling in size every 53 days. Web-site addresses are popping up everywhere, on business cards, stationery, the print media. There’s even a billboard near 14th Avenue and Elati Street in Denver bearing the letters ‘www.xxl.com,’ the Web address for something called Digital World … Steve Adams, president of Online System Services, sees the Web as more than just a business tool, though. ‘I don’t think that the human race has seen anything in the long run that’s going to impact it like the Web even since Henry Ford rolled the first Model T off the production line,’ said Adams.”
Date of prediction: April 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Rocky Mountain News
Title, headline, chapter name: Whole World is Caught in the Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6c4a39b23a2bcd84b29088752aab5131&_docnum=4&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlzV&_md5=f21760735f784d467a4c784b48bf0798
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