E-mail really is under-appreciated and under-utilized and I think it’ll be the dominant information carrier. It carries presentations, transactions, schedules, meetings and I hope bills.
Predictor: Bell, Gordon
Prediction, in context:In the keynote speech at InternetWorld 1995, pioneering computer scientist Gordon Bell, formerly of Digital Equipment Corporation and then a research leader at Microsoft, talks about the importance of e-mail: ”E-mail really is under-appreciated and under-utilized and I think it’ll be the dominant information carrier. It carries presentations, transactions, schedules, meetings and I hope bills. For a large number of applications I prefer e-mail to the World Wide Web and Mosaic simply because I don’t have to be there waiting for a program or talking to one. I don’t have to worry about response time.”
Biography:Gordon Bell proposed a plan for a U.S. research and education network in a 1987 report to the Office of Science and Technology in response to a congressional request by Al Gore. He was a technology leader at Digital Equipment Corporation (where he led the development of the VAX computer) and with Microsoft. (Technology Developer/Administrator)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: E-mail
Name of publication: InternetWorld 1995 Conference
Title, headline, chapter name: It’s Bandwidth and Symmetry, Stupid!
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/IntWorld/tsld002.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney