[Bill Joy] prophesied that around 1995 everything would change due to a “breakthrough” which could not even be imagined in 1990. [Forbes ASAP columnist George] Gilder believes that the breakthrough was the World Wide Web.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:John Murphey wrote the following in his online column Tech Track, a compilation of technology-related items regularly summarized from magazine and newspaper articles:”In 1990, Bill Joy himself conceded the first five years of the 1990s to Gates and Microsoft, even selling much of his stock in Sun to buy Microsoft shares. At the same time, however, he prophesied that around 1995 everything would change due to a ‘breakthrough’ which could not even be imagined in 1990. [Forbes ASAP columnist George] Gilder believes that the breakthrough was the World Wide Web. He says that ‘almost overnight, the CPU and its software have become peripheral; the network central.'”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1990
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Monroe Street Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: Tech Track
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/111395/techtrack.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.