People are getting used to conducting business where they don’t meet face-to-face. But people have not yet started building businesses assuming that. They will.
Predictor: Bricklin, Dan
Prediction, in context:A 1994 article for Inc. quotes Dan Bricklin. The article says:”Dan Bricklin created revolution-launching Visicalc, the first software spreadsheet, in 1978. Now 43, Bricklin sees another opportunity in enabling new technology to become truly useful. With faxes and voice mail, ‘people are getting used to conducting business where they don’t meet face-to-face. But people have not yet started building businesses assuming that. They will.’ In particular, the chairman of Software Garden Inc. [Bricklin] envisions using desktop video to transmit training films or maintain a stable of doctors and lawyers – or even mechanics – that would be available to answer consumers’ questions face-to-face over a computer monitor.”
Biography:Dan Bricklin was the inventor of the first big spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, in 1979. In 1995, he founded and became chief technical officer of Trellix, a company making Web tools. Trellix later invested in Pyra Labs, the biggest supplier of Blogging software, in 2001. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Inc.
Title, headline, chapter name: From the Pioneers of Computers
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=d0a13f46ff7fa16448741a4f3fc76122&_docnum=3&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlzV&_md5=e6ff338b76b926a1072855cacbd71593
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Bricker, Erin E.