New Internet technologies, like Sun’s Java and the Microsoft Corporation’s Blackbird systems, are expected to allow more processing power to reside on the network instead of in the client computer.
Predictor: Lewis, Peter H.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, Peter Lewis writes: ”The arguments favoring a new generation of low-cost network computers are compelling, at least in theory. Proponents note that a majority of personal computers are now attached to office computer networks, the Internet or some other online information service. The appeal of diskless computers is also expected to grow with the popularity of the Internet’s World Wide Web. New Internet technologies, like Sun’s Java and the Microsoft Corporation’s Blackbird systems, are expected to allow more processing power to reside on the network instead of in the client computer.”
Date of prediction: November 27, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Doubts About the Fantasy of a $500 ‘Network PC’
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=2c27c5c94a6c20dada97a1054fe41c91&_docnum=2&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlzV&_md5=f2e93e5490569470da1a89b1c7be41fe
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Cooley, Theresa M.