Four years from today, every PC will be a Web server.
Predictor: McCrea, John
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in Electronic Engineering Times, Larry Lange talks with SGI’s John McCrea. Lange writes: ”SGI views the Net’s GUI-based interface as the driving force and the rest of the Net merely as ‘plumbing’ for the Web at this point, said project manager John McCrea. ‘In January ’95, the Web was only 10 percent of the Internet puzzle, and today it’s 90 percent, with 15 million people on the Web itself,’ he said. ‘We’re focusing the majority of our research and development efforts on the technology of this phenomenal new medium. Every one of our workstations now ships Web-enabled. That’s where the whole market’s heading. Four years from today, every PC will be a Web server.'”
Biography:John McCrea was manager of Cosmo, a next-generation Web software product line from Silicon Graphics. In early ’95 McCrea thrust Silicon Graphics into the Internet market with the WebFORCE server product line. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Pipeline/Switching/Hardware
Name of publication: Electronic Engineering Times
Title, headline, chapter name: SGI, Sun Vie to Serve Up Your Web Platform
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 20, News Briefs
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Meyer, Jennifer Marie