With the ability to mix sound, text and video, newspapers and TV news programs would evolve into richer, multimedia presentations.
Predictor: Dertouzos, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1991 article for Technology Review, MIT researcher/administrator Michael Dertouzos writes that once the National Information Infrastructure is in place:”With the ability to mix sound, text and video, newspapers and TV news programs would evolve into richer, multimedia presentations. Customized news services, like those enjoyed today in text form only by subscribers and certain online databases, would become widely available. Anyone would be able to order up a news presentation showing, say, all the day’s video footage from the Persian Gulf [this article appeared during the conflict between Iraq and the United States over the sovereignty of Kuwait in 1991], detailed analyses of specific stocks, updates on a favorite basketball team and the weather forecast for selected cities.”
Biography:Michael Dertouzos was director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and the author of “The Unfinished Revolution.” He led a project intended to make computers adapt to people. He outlined a comprehensive proposal for a national information “infrastructure” in a 1991 article for Technology Review. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1991
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Technology Review
Title, headline, chapter name: Building the Information Marketplace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web2.infortrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/599/939/33335311w2/purl=rcl
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney