Operating systems and even applications themselves will begin to disappear, as the emphasis shifts to hyperlinked documents and applets-on-demand.
Predictor: Kobielus, James
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Network World, James Kobielus, a senior telecommunications analyst with LCC, an Arlington, Va.-based network design and engineering firm, writes about the future of networking: ”By the turn of the millennium, client operating systems will revolve around hyperlinked network filestores that invoke the appropriate viewers, application tools and communications options when clicked on or otherwise manipulated. Operating systems and even applications themselves will begin to disappear, as the emphasis shifts to hyperlinked documents and applets-on-demand.”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: Browsers Are Coming on Strong as the Preferred Application Launching Point
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000008680917&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=1&Sid=3&RQT=309
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney