This business is going to be a leap of faith for cable companies. But someone will jump in first because when you sit down at a cable modem demo you just have to say holy shit … Our faith in cable Internet access is very strong – five years from today we will see very broad deployment.
Predictor: Waldrop, Tom
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article he wrote for Red Herring, Jonathan Burke talks to technology business leaders about the future of Internet access, quoting Tom Waldrop of Intel. Waldrop says: ”This business is going to be a leap of faith for cable companies. But someone will jump in first because when you sit down at a cable modem demo you just have to say holy shit – it’s a very, very different experience from the Web today. Emotionally it’s like the difference between radio and TV. Our faith in cable Internet access is very strong – five years from today we will see very broad deployment.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Word On Internet Access
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue25/word.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry