Need tickets to a Broadway show? Your computer will handle the transaction. Just give it a price range, seating preference and a credit card. Computers will even make it easier for you to link to a doctor in another city or connect people around the world in virtual classrooms. “Those kind of technologies will become ubiquitous with more processing power.”
Predictor: Gwennap, Linley
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for USA Today, Mike Snider and James Kim write about the future of technology, quoting Linley Gwennap of the Microprocessor Report. Snider and Kim write: ”By the end of the century, personal computers will be roughly six times more powerful than they are today. The implications are enormous. Experts expect all that computing power to spread into just about all aspects of our lives. The PCs of the future will ‘enable whole new ways of interacting with computers,’ says Linley Gwennap of the Microprocessor Report. They’ll be more intelligent, allowing us to communicate in more natural ways – either by speaking to them or writing to them. And they’ll talk back to us. Need tickets to a Broadway show? Your computer will handle the transaction. Just give it a price range, seating preference and a credit card. Computers will even make it easier for you to link to a doctor in another city or connect people around the world in virtual classrooms. ‘Those kind of technologies will become ubiquitous with more processing power,’ Gwennap says. The guiding principal in the computer industry – known as Moore’s Law and named for Intel co-founder Gordon Moore – is that the number of transistors that can be pressed onto a fixed area of silicon in a microprocessor doubles every 18 months. The more transistors in the computer’s brain, the more powerful the computer.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: USA Today
Title, headline, chapter name: PCs in the Year 2000
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=928b7f82f947e436f52f14caa2a74deb&_docnum=3&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSlAl&_md5=77d7b913bf251be8414b1c6c01fbd468
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