The market will move beyond the technology. As technology becomes easier to use, people are going to start forgetting about it. You will focus on what to do with them rather than the tools themselves.
Predictor: O'Reilly, Tim
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Network Computing article in which a panel of experts made predictions about the future, publisher and Internet entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly says: ”The market will move beyond the technology. As technology becomes easier to use, people are going to start forgetting about it. You will focus on what to do with them rather than the tools themselves.”
Biography:Tim O’Reilly was founder and first president of O’Reilly & Associates, a computer-book-publishing company that helped popularize the Internet in the decade of the 1990s. His Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and one of the initial commercial sites on the World Wide Web. He received InfoWorld’s Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on behalf of the Open Source community. He served on the board of trustees for the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Network Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Millennium Prophesies
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b2a222aeadfd88a763e959281aeb7e8d&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=0e905f49529deecbed262955d3955b53
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