The Internet will become much more than a web for sharing data among the world’s computers. [Instead,] the Internet will begin to function more like a single giant computer, with its intelligence and processing power distributed among the millions of machines connected to it.
Predictor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, Lawrence Fisher writes high-tech company Sun Microsystems and its strategy for the future: ”As Sun sees that future, the Internet will become much more than a web for sharing data among the world’s computers. Instead, Sun says, the Internet will begin to function more like a single giant computer, with its intelligence and processing power distributed among the millions of machines connected to it – much the way that today’s corporate office networks split jobs between large ‘server’ computers and many smaller desktop ‘client’ computers.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Sun Microsystems Climbing Aboard the Net
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=cdcfeab6d169cdcb3e29d7e88884df77&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlb-lSlzV&_md5=0f49126a2650f20d18a585334b203e6e
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