Our new telegraph has just been invented but is not yet widely deployed. The big deployment, begun with tools like Mosaic in a Box, will become nearly universal … The Internet will be the mainstream interactive disseminator of information. At least until the equivalent of the telegraph’s replacement comes along … We’re only getting an inkling of what’s to come.
Predictor: Strehlo, Kevin
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in Datamation, Kevin Stehlo discusses the potential of the Internet: ”We’re at the stage now where we’re entering the frontier of electronic information, and the Internet is our telegraph wire. Pretty primitive compared with what’s coming. And our new telegraph has just been invented but is not yet widely deployed. The big deployment, begun with tools like Mosaic in a Box, will become nearly universal when the tools to browse the World Wide Web are included in OS/2 Warp, available now, and Microsoft Windows 95, available soon. At that point, it will be pretty much decided. The Internet will be the mainstream interactive disseminator of information. At least until the equivalent of the telegraph’s replacement comes along … We’re only getting an inkling of what’s to come.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Datamation
Title, headline, chapter name: Datamation
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web4.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/informark/617/576/34459660w4/purl=rcl EAIM 0 A15972227&dyn=5!xrn 1 0 A15972227?sw aep=ncliveec
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