We want a dial tone for high-speed symmetrical links. Whatever the network’s going to be, it must be symmetrical. You can send to me, I can send to you at the same time and data rate. That’s an important part. Symmetry is the key. I want to allow bit warehouses or bit stores or bit places for audio, nice images, or television. And then, 4D so we can do virtual reality. That’s a bandwidth question. With that we can do the tele stuff. That is, we can do the remote conferencing, remote work and remote business. I think those things are needed.
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, tells of his vision of the next version of the Internet – Internet-3 – saying: ”What do we need as Internet-3? First, there’s nobody who’s got a vision for it. No one’s said: ‘This is what its got to be.’ Let me put my stake in the ground. First we want a dial tone for high-speed symmetrical links. Whatever the network’s going to be, it must be symmetrical. You can send to me, I can send to you at the same time and data rate. That’s an important part. Symmetry is the key. I want to allow bit warehouses or bit stores or bit places for audio, nice images, or television. And then, 4D so we can do virtual reality. That’s a bandwidth question. With that we can do the tele stuff. That is, we can do the remote conferencing, remote work and remote business. I think those things are needed.”
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: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Bandwidth
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