Bandwidth is a drug. The more you have, the more you want. As soon as cable and DSL are in general use we’ll fill it up with video and music to the point where that’s not enough again.
Predictor: Rickard, Jack
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Newsday, Rita Ciolli and Lou Donlinar talk with Jack Rickard. Ciolli and Donlinar write: ”Not so far into the future some smart technician will find new ways to open the spigot futher, suggests Jack Rickard, former editor of the influential computer magazine Boardwatch. ‘Bandwidth is a drug,’ he said. ‘The more you have, the more you want.’ As soon as cable and DSL are in general use, Rickard theorizes, ‘we’ll fill it up with video and music to the point where that’s not enough again.'”
Biography:Jack Rickard, the editor/publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, the magazine of the 1990s home-grown BBS industry, was also co-founder of the Online Networking Exposition and BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON). (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
Name of publication: Newsday
Title, headline, chapter name: Nothing but Net
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://future.newsday.com/6/ftop0613.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Schmidt, Nicholas