We’re really defining the Cyberspace. It’s not something that’s going to come from Washington, it’s not something that’s coming from a vision by the president of Bell Atlantic no matter how many times he’s on the cover of Fortune Magazine … Internet 3.0 is the dial tone, it’s scalable and symmetric at 25 megabits to everyone’s plug. Bits are fungible – datacom, images, real audio, 2D and 3D video. The question is how do you get there.
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: ”Internet 2.0 users mousing around [helped spur the network evolution of] the World Wide Web, HTML, browsers, servers, and commerce companies, enabling home pages, and we’re on a rapid evolutionary path. We’re really defining the Cyberspace. It’s not something that’s going to come from Washington, it’s not something that’s coming from a vision by the president of Bell Atlantic no matter how many times he’s on the cover of Fortune Magazine … Internet 3.0 is the dial tone, it’s scalable and symmetric at 25 megabits to everyone’s plug. Bits are fungible – datacom, images, real audio, 2D and 3D video. The question is how do you get there.”
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: General
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
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