We will provide cyberspace with financial communications that will be safe and secure and convenient.
Predictor: Wilson, Bruce
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine on e-cash, Steven Levy interviews Bruce Wilson of CyberCash. Levy writes: ”‘We will provide cyberspace with financial communications that will be safe and secure and convenient,’ says Bruce Wilson, CyberCash’s chief operating officer. In the first quarter of 1995, CyberCash will offer a network equivalent of debit-card transactions, then expand to credit cards. The next step: cash-like components that support peer-to-peer payments.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-cash
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: E-Money (That’s What I Want)
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/emoney_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Lusk, James T.