Your home is not a terribly convenient place for storing data. By and large you want your data to be where you use it: You want it in your office, you want it when you’re on the airplane. Having your own home computer is kind of like having your own home electric generator.
Predictor: Hillis, W. Daniel
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly and Steven Levy quote Danny Hillis, the co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines, a supercomputer company designed, in part, to create the sort of machine that Hillis was thinking about when he said, “I want to design a computer that will be proud of me.” Hillis says:”There’ll be people who keep their money in their mattresses, and there’ll be people who keep their data in their mattresses. Your home is not a terribly convenient place for storing data. By and large you want your data to be where you use it: You want it in your office, you want it when you’re on the airplane. Having your own home computer is kind of like having your own home electric generator.”
Biography:W. Daniel Hillis, vice president of research and development at the Walt Disney Company, an inventor of massively parallel computing, was also founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Corporation. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Kay + Hillis: Wired Brings Together Two Legendary Minds: Alan Kay and Danny Hillis
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/kay.hillis_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney