Corporations join W3C because they need that space to be stable and want to have a say in the way it evolves. They realize that the Web – as a highway and marketplace – has to be there as a precursor to all the fancy ways in which their products will be able to compete.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Information Week article regarding the future of the Internet, Berners-Lee commented: ”The Internet, specifically the Web, is moving from appearing as a neat application to being the underlying information space in which we communicate, learn, compute, and do business. Corporations join W3C because they need that space to be stable and want to have a say in the way it evolves. They realize that the Web – as a highway and marketplace – has to be there as a precursor to all the fancy ways in which their products will be able to compete.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: July 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Information Week
Title, headline, chapter name: The Internet – Where’s It All Going?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b83c10508e19ffbee2b32765ce099c64&_docnum=13&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=c019c9e4607b692c5d94a18a96d58bde
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