GUI-based operating systems … will get pushed to the background as invisible providers of file, communications, print and memory/task management services.
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: ”No one is saying GUI-based operating systems will disappear entirely, any more than the hoary MS-DOS prompt and Unix command-line interfaces have. But they will get pushed to the background as invisible providers of file, communications, print and memory/task management services.”
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
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