A lot of this “too hard to use” stuff will go away. Radio was so messy for the first 20 years, it wasn’t funny. Cars ditto – you had to be a mechanic to drive one.
Predictor: Malamud, Carl
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Fortune magazine, Thomas Stewart writes about the networked future, quoting Carl Malamud of Internet Multicasting Service. Stewart writes: ”Moving around on the Internet now involves arcane commands that can befuddle even experts. That will change soon: Companies that provide network services will compete partly on ease of use. Says Carl Malamud, founder of Internet Multicasting Service in Washington, D.C.: ‘A lot of this “too hard to use” stuff will go away. Radio was so messy for the first 20 years, it wasn’t funny. Cars ditto – you had to be a mechanic to drive one.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Fortune
Title, headline, chapter name: Boom Time on the New Frontier
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000000469126&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=3&Sid=1&RQT=309
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Garrison, Betty