The Internet already is the data highway. What else is there to compete with 25 million users exchanging data? No single private company is going to build a worldwide system that can compete with it. It would cost too much money, and they’d be too far behind.
Predictor: Clark, Jim
Prediction, in context:Mosaic originator Marc Andreessen made the following comment in a 1994 article in Network Computing Magazine: ”The Internet already is the data highway. What else is there to compete with 25 million users exchanging data? No single private company is going to build a worldwide system that can compete with it. It would cost too much money, and they’d be too far behind. Even Microsoft, with the $100 million it makes a month, can’t afford to lease a worldwide network. Microsoft isn’t a phone company. It’s a software company. It won’t make any sense. Better to be a branch of the Internet.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: The Pattern in the Mosaic
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=6d004516cc820836cda7f66c5f136b21&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=fa34f29c8a2e7cad415bce0edfdba183
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Allen, Patrick J.