This is the start of the personal news service.
Predictor: Kahle, Brewster
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for BusinessWeek magazine, Amy Cortese interviews WAIS president Brewster Kahle. Cortese writes:”Software to help publishers go online is another thriving niche. One of the leaders in electronic publishing software is WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers). Its WAIServer system will handle billing, registration, advertising tracking, and just about anything else a publisher needs. WAIS also offers intelligent-agent and information-searching software, which WAIS president Brewster Kahle helped develop at supercomputer maker Thinking Machines Corp. Customers include Dow Jones & Co., which is testing an electronic version of The Wall Street Journal that lets subscribers specify what news they want to get – by selecting company names and sections of the regular paper. ‘This is the start of the personal news service,’ says Kahle.”
Biography:Brewster Kahle invented Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) for Thinking Machines Corporation in 1991. He is a co-founder of the Internet Archive. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: BusinessWeek
Title, headline, chapter name: Crafting Software That Will Let You Build a Business Out There
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 34
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney