We’re talking about taking technology that we already have, figuring out how to pay for it, and installing it. So the bandwidth problems, when they’ll be solved, I don’t know how, but the solutions are inevitable.
Predictor: McCarthy, Ken
Prediction, in context:Ken McCarthy, founding publisher of the Internet Gazette, delivered a speech titled “Why the Web and Why Now” Nov. 5, 1994, to an audience of publishers, advertisers and multi-media producers in San Francisco. McCarthy says: ”The human race … is capable of creating all sorts of amazing leaps of technology, and we’re really just talking about adding a little bit more bandwidth. We’re not talking about inventing something new, or laying the first transatlantic cable, which was quite a difficult physical feat. We’re talking about taking technology that we already have, figuring out how to pay for it, and installing it. So the bandwidth problems, when they’ll be solved, I don’t know how, but the solutions are inevitable.”
Date of prediction: October 5, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: kenmccarthy.com
Title, headline, chapter name: Why the Web and Why NOW!
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://kenmccarthy.com/archive/ig1.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry