As we get newer and better compression alogrithms for video and still-frame images, we’ll approach the next major leap in desktop computing: video on the desktop.
Predictor: Dvorak, John C.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 column in PC Magazine, John Dvorak writes:”As we get newer and better compression alogrithms for video and still-frame images, we’ll approach the next major leap in desktop computing: video on the desktop … Much of this can also be done over the Internet. Whatever the case, we will soon be surrounded by cameras and ways to access the cameras.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: TV/Films/Video
Name of publication: PC Magazine
Title, headline, chapter name: The Naked Computer
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 89
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Cooley, Theresa M.