A television is a very dumb PC, but a PC is a very smart television set.
Predictor: Kleinrock, Leonard
Prediction, in context:In a 1998 article for the Hartford Courant (reprinted in the Ottawa Citizen), John Moran quotes Leonard Kleinrock, chairman of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Moran writes: ”Leonard Kleinrock … predicts that the desktop computer will overtake the TV as the home’s central electronic appliance. ‘A television is a very dumb PC, but a PC is a very smart television set,’ said Kleinrock, author of ‘Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.'”
Biography:Leonard Kleinrock published the first paper on packet-switching theory in the RLE Quarterly Progress Report while at MIT in 1961. He established the Network Measurement Center at UCLA and worked in the area of digital networks. He also published a comprehensive look at digital networks in his book “Communication Nets.” He developed the ARPANET network with Lawrence Roberts. In 1969, Kleinrock’s NMC team connected an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an Interface Messenger Processor, creating the first node on the ARPANET, the first computer to connect to the Internet. Kleinrock’s team used the early system to iron out the initial design and performance issues on the world’s first packet-switched network. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: May 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Internet Appliances
Name of publication: Ottawa Citizen
Title, headline, chapter name: Computers Taking Over as Electronic Technologies Merge; The Convergence Revolution
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Section: Citylife, Page C3
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Krout, Kevin M.