Imagine holding a meeting like this with an associate in Japan while you’re at the back of a taxi cab in Geneva … Video conferencing via PCs looks likely to become more commonplace; an Intel-based PC will by the second half of next year offer video conferencing over standard analog phone lines.
Predictor: Grove, Andy
Prediction, in context:A 1995 article in Insurance Systems Bulletin quotes Intel CEO Andy Grove. The article says:”The transformation of the PC into a communicating device combining multimedia and video-telephony capabilities, is the likely evolution of the PC in the home in coming years, according to Dr. Andy Grove, president and CEO of Intel, the world’s biggest microprocessor chip maker … Speaking at this month’s Telecom ’95 in Geneva, Grove [said] … ‘Imagine holding a meeting like this with an associate in Japan while you’re at the back of a taxi cab in Geneva’ … The age of the ‘connected PC’ is about to open the door to a whole host of new applications, he said. Digital cellular connections could be made even where land lines are non-existent. Grove uses the term ‘smart connection’ for the scenario of the intelligent PC at each end of the telecoms line, at home and in business premises. Speaking a few days later in London, he noted that production of PCs worldwide was about to outstrip that of TVs within the next two years … Video conferencing via PCs looks likely to become more commonplace; an Intel-based PC will by the second half of next year offer video conferencing over standard analog phone lines.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Video Conferencing
Name of publication: Insurance Systems Bulletin (London)
Title, headline, chapter name: Communicating PC Points to Future Says Intel
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Insurance Systems Bulletin; London; Oct. 1995 Volume: 11 Issue:4 Page10 ISSN:02681935
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garber, Adam