The telegraph is the ancestor of just about everything modern we know today, and this year it’s 150 years old. I think it’s fitting that this is also the first year that the Internet fully sheds its experimental status and takes its place as a fledgling medium along with print and TV. Like the telegraph, the Internet will surely spawn all kinds of inventions and new ways of doing things, things we can’t imagine today. And someday, strangely enough, our descendants will look back at 1994, the year of the birth of the Internet-as-medium, as the old days and wonder how in the world we ever got by with such primitive technology!
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 telegraph is the ancestor of just about everything modern we know today, and this year it’s 150 years old. I think it’s fitting that this is also the first year that the Internet fully sheds its experimental status and takes its place as a fledgling medium along with print and TV. Like the telegraph, the Internet will surely spawn all kinds of inventions and new ways of doing things, things we can’t imagine today. And someday, strangely enough, our descendants will look back at 1994, the year of the birth of the Internet-as-medium, as the old days and wonder how in the world we ever got by with such primitive technology!”
Date of prediction: November 5, 1994
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
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