I think the Internet will be the universal open interface amongst any kind of a device with a computer in it. I think things like the World Wide Web, browsers and Java will be the universal open navigation and application interface.
Predictor: Rutkowski, Anthony Michael
Prediction, in context:In his keynote speech Oct. 7, 1995, at the Internet @Telecom ’95 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Anthony Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society says: ”In the future what is likely to be the driving factors and what is likely to emerge? I think the Internet will be the universal open interface amongst any kind of a device with a computer in it. I think things like the World Wide Web, browsers and Java will be the universal open navigation and application interface. Even in the newspapers these days you see emulation of World Wide Web browser pages because some audiences have gotten so used to looking at that kind of an interface to information that the papers are even experimentally emulating it right on the printed page.”
Biography:Anthony Michael (Tony) Rutkowski was a lawyer and engineer who was an executive director of the Internet Society during some key years of development in the 1990s. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: October 7, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Internet@Telecom 95 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
Title, headline, chapter name: Anthony Rutkowski, Executive Director, Internet Society
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.itu.int/TELECOM/wt95/pressdocs/papers/rutk.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Smith, Ian T.