[Mosaic] has begun a revolution in the way we experience knowledge. In the world of the Web, knowledge is not something you produce, but something you participate in. A document isn’t a self-sufficient individual creation, but a perspective, or collection of perspectives, on the entire Web.
Predictor: Wolf, Gary
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine about the Internet’s latest killer app, Mosaic, Gary Wolf writes: ”This aesthetically pleasing browser [Mosaic] has begun a revolution in the way we experience knowledge. In the world of the Web, knowledge is not something you produce, but something you participate in. A document isn’t a self-sufficient individual creation, but a perspective, or collection of perspectives, on the entire Web.”
Biography:Gary Wolf was the executive editor of Wired Digital, which produced the online news service HotWired and the associated businesses HotBot and Pointcast in the 1990s. He was a co-author of the book “Aether Madness: An Off-Beat Guide to the Online World” (Peachpit Press, 1995). (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun: Don’t Look Now, But Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe Are All Suddenly Obsolete – and Mosaic is Well on its Way to Becoming the World’s Standard Interface
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mosaic_pr.html
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