The PC will become a peripheral attached to an all-knowing, all-powerful Internet [?] I don’t think so, George. Not that the Internet won’t be important; I look at it as one of the most important applications that will be used on my PC in the future.
Predictor: Grove, Andy
Prediction, in context:John Murphey included the following in his online column Tech Track, a compilation of technology-related items regularly summarized from magazine and newspaper articles. It is a direct quotation of Intel CEO Andy Grove’s Oct. 9, 1995, response in Forbes ASAP to an earlier Forbes ASAP column written by George Gilder that claimed, among other things, that Marc Andreessen, will be bigger than Bill Gates in the Internet World: ”Now you predict that the PC will become a peripheral attached to an all-knowing, all-powerful Internet. I don’t think so, George. Not that the Internet won’t be important; I look at it as one of the most important applications that will be used on my PC in the future.”
Biography:Andy Grove was computer chipmaker Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998. He received much recognition for his tech achievements, including the 1987 Engineering Leadership Recognition Award from the IEEE and Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1997. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: Monroe Street Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: Tech Track
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/111395/techtrack.html
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