The challenge of multimedia communications is to create what we have called “displaced conversationality.” This means the provision of all sensory inputs and outputs to any human user, at any time and place, required for the transmission of information in order to transact a series of events that lead ultimately to an agreed consensus among the parties involved … This will place significant new demands on the Internet. It raises the question of whether the Internet must now consider raising the level of protocols it supports above just TCP (the transport control protocol) into what we have called the session control control protocol, SCP. Does the Internet evolve into a SCP/TCP/IP network?
Predictor: McGarty, Terrence P.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User'” by Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. McGarty is chairman and CEO of The Telemarc Group, Inc. and Haywood is with RAM Mobile Data Inc. They write: ”The challenge of multimedia communications is to create what we have called ‘displaced conversationality.’ This means the provision of all sensory inputs and outputs to any human user, at any time and place, required for the transmission of information in order to transact a series of events that lead ultimately to an agreed consensus among the parties involved. Simply put, it means that I can talk in simple terms with anybody else, using whatever displays, video, data, voice or other annotations I desire, either simultaneously or at a delayed period of time. This will place significant new demands on the Internet. It raises the question of whether the Internet must now consider raising the level of protocols it supports above just TCP (the transport control protocol) into what we have called the session control control protocol, SCP. Does the Internet evolve into a SCP/TCP/IP network?”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 245
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne