The prediction, in brief:

Expect wireless hookups … with signals bouncing from transmitters like cell-phone relays. Or, tomorrow’s “information appliance” could be a TV, computer and phone all in one. Even cheaper, a device similar to an adaptor could feed Nextnet data into a regular TV. No telling what you can net with forethought.

Predictor: Cerf, Vinton G.

Prediction, in context:

In a 1995 article for Newsweek magazine, Sharon Begley and Adam Rogers quote Vinton Cerf. They write:”The Clinton administration, which wants to make the Infobahn accessible to everyone, calls its vision of the wired future the National Information Infrastructure. Spearheaded by the Commerce Department, this ‘network of networks’ is already forming. Some of the 92 projects that received $67 million in NII grants last October establish the kind of local networks that, linked nationally, begin to look like a Nextnet. Expect wireless hookups, says Cerf, with signals bouncing from transmitters like cell-phone relays. Or, tomorrow’s ‘information appliance’ could be a TV, computer and phone all in one. Even cheaper, a device similar to an adaptor could feed Nextnet data into a regular TV. No telling what you can net with forethought.”

Date of prediction: February 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: Internet Appliances

Name of publication: Newsweek

Title, headline, chapter name: MBones and Giganets: What Will Replace the Internet?

Quote Type: Partial quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Vellucci, Amanda