By the year 2015 over three billion people (half the world population) will be connected to the Internet. They will using high-definition television and digital video disks connected to high-speed networks. Also, multimedia publishing will become the largest business of the Internet in the next 15 to 25 years – it will be a $60 billion business in the U.S. alone.
Predictor: Nishi, Kazuhiko
Prediction, in context:In a newsletter article reporting on the Internet Society’s INET ’95, George Grimes, dean of learning resources and technologies at Eastern Michigan University, quotes a speech made by Kazuhiko Nishi, founder of ASCII of Japan. Grimes writes: ”According to Nishi, ‘By the year 2015 over three billion people (half the world population) will be connected to the Internet.’ They will using high-definition television and digital video disks connected to high-speed networks. Also, multimedia publishing will become the largest business of the Internet in the next 15 to 25 years – it will be a $60 billion business in the U.S. alone.'”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Number of Users
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Fifth Annual Internet Society Conference Draws 1,500
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.macul.org/newsletter/1996/January96/doc14.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney